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What A Home

What and where is a Home ? How can a person define a place as a Home ? Although many people can define home as the place where one lives permanently, it is hard for me to define home for now. Ever since I was accepted in a scholarship the word home has been a complex word to me. I will be living in the U.S. for more than 5 years, so is my apartment in the U.S my home or my father’s house in Kuwait? I define home as a place that I can feel comfortable in doing everything that can come on my mind freely without being questioned by anyone nor breaking any law. A period more than 5 years is enough to me to consider my apartment in the United States my second home. That is why whenever someone asks me about my home my answer to them is “which home do you mean in Kuwait or the U.S ?” It is great to have two houses to be considered as homes because each one of them has its own specifications.

In Kuwait, my home is my father’s house. It is located in one of the newest and modernist areas in Kuwait City which is known as South Surra or in arabic janoub al-surra specifically and in more detailed a place called al-shuhadaa. My father’s house is unique in the block by the color and the simple design. From the outside, the house has a color is between orange and pink, but it tends to be orange more that pink, and a shape like a human face as I see. The two left windows on the top are the left eye, and the two on the top right are the other eye, and another big one in the middle as the nose and under it come the main door as the mouth with another two windows as the cheeks. Also, there is a parking for three cars covered by a sunshade. The sunshade is like mother that covers the cars like her babies from the extreme hot sun in the summer and the rain in the winter. To the right of the car parking there is a small garden that has a size of a two cars parked which contains a lot of kinds and shapes and colors of flowers surrounded by a three walls of small trees and stairs to enter the garden. In Spring, the whole garden becomes like an orchestra with dancers; the wind represent the orchestra and the flowers and trees are the dancer. Moreover, there is a pathway that surrounds the house and take the shape of the letter U. The right path is connected to the kitchen, the left path has the second main entrance for the house and middle one connected to the main entrance by stairs made from ceramic and linked to the parking with another set of stairs. All those elements make the house a modest house compared to the surrounding houses. To the right and left comes the neighborhood, and our houses are semi-detached, making the three houses combined as friends holding each others hands.

Next, From inside the house is spacious and has two floors. On the first floor there is a hall that is used for gatherings only, especially for men gathering, and it has a specific name in arabic that is Diwaniya. The Diwaniya is supposed to be a small hall separated from the house that is what the old tradition stipulated, but the house design was not going to work with that, so the men’s meeting room was combined with the house. It has a old fashioned style with modern entertainment setups like the 50 inch television with the great sound system. I used to make it as a cinema at midnight by turning the lights off and turning the volume all the way up. Near to the gathering hall comes the biggest hall in the house it is lofty like a futsal, which is an indoor football hall. Also, it is shuttered so that the noise does not bother the neighbors or the guests in the Diwaniya. After that comes the Disneyland room for kids. It has a castle shaped trampoline and a slide with a lot of boxes that contains toy collections that I used to have, like the Toy Story characters and many other characters that kids like. To the right of the kids room comes a guest room for any visitor who wants to relax. Beyond the two rooms comes the kitchen. The kitchen has a professional design with the newest cooking items. It can be used for a cooking show with an eating table and two ovens and refrigerators, and it comes with a room linked to stock the food that will last for a long period. Furthermore, every room and hall in the house is self-contained except the kitchen.

Then, comes the second floor. After taking the stairs up to the second floor the first room that will be faced is the hall of knowledge. It contains a small library that has books from different categories for instance, some books that my mother had since the college days, books about different religions that my father reads, and childrens stories and dictionaries with some fiction and science books that I like to read. Moreover, there is a small office for my father’s business work. At the early morning, the sunlight shines from the windows and that gives the hall a reading atmosphere. On the right, my parents room are connected directly to the hall of knowledge. In addition, a small path separates three rooms with their own bathrooms, my room and my brother’s and sister’s future rooms, and because I am the elder I had the biggest room of the three. It is as big as the hall that I have in my new apartment in The U.S., colored by light gray and blue, those two colors remind me of the beach and the ocean. In my opinion, my room is the dream of any normal teenager. It is big that it has fitted a king size of bed and a huge closet with a table for study and roofs for my car collections. There is still a space for more Items like another king size bed and a 40 inch TV screen. Although it is the biggest room between the three, it is half sized my parents room with nearly the same Items.

On the other hand, In the U.S, the apartment where I live is located in Fullerton California. It is on the East Chapman Avenue in a community called City Pointe. The apartment is self-contained in 1152 square feet. It has two rooms and each room has it’s own bathroom. The community has a shared swimming pool and a jacuzzi. Also, they provide a small gym and games room. It is a very simple apartment and cannot be compared to the house in Kuwait. Further more, the apartment has a great view of the main street and green nature and nearby there is Fullerton downtown, which beautiful and quiet in the night. It is only 10 minutes away from Cal State fullerton, which make it the perfect place for me to relax and study.

Lastly, It is hard to get a house In Kuwait and It is so expensive. Nowadays, a small land in Kuwait can have a price of a furnished house in the United States. Also, the different traditions makes the life different and because of that many families in kuwait are gathered In one house. For example, you can see a son that is married lives with his wife in his father’s house by building a full floor in his father’s house or find an apartment or an affordable house to live in. On the other hand, compared to the United States I see most of the matures lives away from their parents.

To sum up, each country of the to have it’s unique lifestyle and people with different cultures. That is what makes me wanna continue having two home because the mixture of them is an adventure by itself. It is hard for anyone to get this chance to experience different environments and if it happens to be I encourage everyone to try it .