#aplit16querencia

[omgrachellewalker-blog]

Querencia

Dear Kreinbring,

I am so sorry but I must inform you that I do not have a Querencia. There’s no place that brings back good memories and there’s no place I wish I could say I go with my family every year and enjoy myself. I’m sorry to inform you that no there’s no cabin in the woods my family visits. There’s no vacation we take every summer as a family to a lake and bond. I don’t get attached to any physical place because who knows how long it’ll be there. I don’t know what to draw you. I haven’t done this post for the same reason I haven’t done the tribe one, I don’t know what to tell you. I can’t tell you things about my childhood simply because I don’t remember it and I don’t want to. Feel free to give me a giant zero on this because I got nothing for you. But please keep in mind that just because I don’t come from happiness and sunshine and families that love each other, doesn’t mean I’ll never have one. So yes right now I don’t have a Querencia and I’m sorry but one day, maybe tomorrow maybe twenty years from now, I will find one. 

[susan-the-mini-mexican-blog]

My Querencia

My querencia is the theatre. I have specific areas that are more mine than others, but it’s still my place. I’ve met so many people there, I’ve learned a lot there, and I practically live there. I’ve been on both sides of the stage, I’ve built sets and props, and I’ve made working with sound and light equipment my thing. If I hadn’t found this space, I would never have had a chance to do any of that, let alone travel with it and meet other students from different schools with similar interests as me.

[caitlin-blomberg]

The theatre is my querencia, there are many like it but this one is mine. Most of my best highschool moments have taken place in this theatre. I come here almost every day like I have for nearly 4 years. The theatre is my home, I come here when I need to think, I come here with friends, to work , to learn, I'm even writing this post in the theatre. During my time here I learned alot about this place , how to run it, I learned design, and application, but I also learned alot about myself. This space is sacred to me and because of it I never want to stop working in theatre. As the year nears it's ending I will soon have to search for a new place to call home. It makes me sad to think I will be leaving the place that has provided so much comfort for so long. But I'm excited because I know I will be moving on to a new space , a new theatre. Who know it may even be a new querencia

[im-andyjiang]

A lot of people say their querencia is their room, or their desk, and I suppose I would say the same thing, but there's one real reason why I would say that and that's because of Teamspeak. Really simply put, TeamSpeak is an application where you can create a server where anyone who has the address and password can join. Inside a server, there are a multitude of channels where people can join, voice chat with everyone else, or talk through text within the channel or server.  It's pretty much like a group chat or a Google+ hangout that’s constantly online.

Belonging to the sense of peace and comfortableness, and that's exactly what I feel like in the server.  Whether it's peace and quiet with just me, or the typical me, Adam, and Alex, or fully busy with two or three channels going and 10+ people in the server, I never feel out of place. There's never an awkward place I could put myself in. The Teamspeak is a home for me. It's very personalized, and each channel name, description, and advertisement hold something of meaning or sentiment to me. It's a place where I can discuss anything. I can play LoL or CS with Adam, Alex, Ashton, Kendall, or whoever else. I can watch streams of LCS or basketball or football games with other people. I can work on homework alone in the homework channel, or I can discuss it with whoever is there. Even if I want to discuss things from Twitter, Reddit or whatever else online, I can just throw a link in the chat for everyone else to see. It also makes making real life plans a lot faster and easier.

I feel in my element, it's a very weird thing  to try to understand if you're not a part of it. how can you belong to an internet server? But over time Teamspeak has become such an important tool for building and maintaining relationship for me, especially those ones that distance might normally ruin: now, or in the future.

[benlocklang15]

My querencia is a spot I have up north at my cottage near Grayling MI. If you take a walking trail for about a mile away from my cottage, and then take a backwoods trail for another quarter mile you're there. Unfortunately it's very remote and the only person who goes in this particular clearing is me, so I never felt the need to take a picture. So this is a google image of what the place looks like. But my drawing is a more accurate portrayal of what it looks like. Awhile back I found an old car seat that someone had thrown in the woods and abandon, so I picked it up and hauled it back to my secret place. When ever I go up there I sit on the chair and just think, and observe my surroundings. It keeps me sane. There is no noise, no cars, no distractions. When I'm there I can really be my self. I have a very unique taste in music, culture, and happiness. So there I feel no judgement and I can indulge in my own likes. I never really had a name for it other than "My Place"

[alexa-hill]

“Home is where the heart is”

When I think of my querencia I think of somewhere I feel at home at. Somewhere that makes me feel confident, happy, secure, welcome, and loved. Where my heart is. I couldn’t think of just one place my hear is because it’s spread out all over! So instead of picking my house because I feel the best ther (most times) I thought of a couple places where my querencia is.

My first querencia is my church. I go to Kensington church in Troy and it has become my second home. It’s a place that I have grown and developed as a person tremendously and am welcomed with open arms. I wouldn’t be half of who I am today if it wasn’t for that church and the people there. I can’t even begin to explain the life transformations that have taken place in that home. It’s not so much focused on the church but on Jesus, so I guess the church isn’t where I feel home at after all... I mean yes I do.

 BUT JESUS is my querencia. Wherever he is I AM HOME. Kensington is the first place I have encountered the love and mercy of Him and the place I find myself at every Sunday wanting to know more and go deeper. So wherever Jesus is, is my querencia.

AND YES THIS FIRST PIC IS FROM MY CHURCH. Our high school sunday night service. And the next pic is from a church camp I attend called Never The Same.

Another place that has been my querencia ever since I could remember is the Softball fields. They always said “ A diamond is a girl’s best friend”... I took that literally. The diamond is where no matter what I can escape to and be filled with happiness. I have been apart of several families throughout my travel teams and my high school team and I love my team with all my heart. FOR ME, IT’S THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE MY QUERENCIAS. These girls are more than my teammates but a family, and we would do anything for each other. Every practice, every game we’re together.

My home is my final Querencia but I thought that was sort of cliche and obvious, but my mom is my best friend and super hero and since she is at my home that’s where my heart is. Again.... IT’S THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE HOME A HOME!! My house wouldn’t be considered a home to me because of all the things that have happened in it and the memories I don’t want to remember that are in it. BUT MY FAMILY IS THERE AND THAT’S WHAT MAKES IT HOME.

home is where the heart is, it’s not the place that is my querencia... 

IT’S PEOPLE.

[tristan-wright-avondale]

My querencia is my family camp in Potter county, Pennsylvania. This is where I am my true self because I don't have all the distractions and stressors of everyday life or technology. When I'm there, it's just me, my family, and nature. Sometimes we go out and drive through the mountains looking for elk or deer, and other times we just hang out at camp and relax. This place represents my personality because it is secluded except for a few. This is where I feel most safe and it is where I can enjoy myself with only the people I love. It is mine because I don't have to share it with the world and it is limited to the people I care about.

[alexaaalonso]

My querencia is when I'm with my friends. I believe it's the people that makes the place where I belong, not the place. I love spending time with my friends. I am forever laughing, and it's always a good time. I think that it's the people that make a querencia because they are the ones you interact with. You might me in an annoying place (like ap bio or soccer conditioning) but as long as you are with people that make you happy, you feel like it's a place where you belong. I make memories with people, not places, so I feel like it truly is the people who make the place, not the place that makes the people.