Finding Comfort

Annissa Byrd
10/12/11

Both of these text have different ways of helping me find a place to fit in in my own life. They both talk of how it is important to have a place to feel like home or where u are most comfortable and how to find comfort. Nafisi lost her home multiple time and each time she was able to look in the right places to find her comfort. "I made peace with my new home in England and later in America through its generous and magical language. The first Shakespeare play I read was "Much Ado About Nothing," and I can still feel the thrill of his words in my spine. I cannot tell you much about the experience, except that it was real; indeed, it was transforming." (Nafisi, 2). I love how the only words she can describe her experience are "it was real" there is nothing like discovering your comfort in the new town and home you live in. it take strength and being alright with out the sugar coating of the people close to you. New experiences are nothing but the truth and the reality of life.

When I moved to San Rafael I tried all different things to make it feel like my home and nothing worked. Until I tried to find places here that made me comfortable and did not compare it to my home before. I looked at it for the beauty it had and no longer tried to change it. I now look at Marin as a much different and more beautiful place to live.

When working with the MCCS students I think it is important to show them the difference that we have so they can find there own beauty and comfort with us. On Friday when we were walking to the art room one of the kids said something like "It's hella different here. I don't feel like I belong here." When I heard this I wanted to say "NO our school is very welcoming and that it is a place where all different people come to learn." For some reason I felt that he need to see it for himself. He needed to see how the school would welcome him there and how it was a place where he could express himself openly. As the day went on I saw him become more and more open to what we were doing. He was ok with touching things in the art room and the room became his class room. It was both hard and painful for him at first but as the day went on it became expressive and joyful.

Both Nafisi and Hocking have a way of show the importance of comfort and the importance of a home. Theses texts show the reader that comfort in the places you are come from what you make of them and how you look at the beauty that can be in front of you.