Simone Giertz

Came home and I found out that my parents had separated when I was gone and they hadn't told me because they wanted to like not affect my stay there, which I think was 100% the right decision of them to make.

But I kind of came home to a house that was starting to get picked apart.

It was both yes and no.

I think I remember I just sat down on my bed and I was like, well, this isn't what I expected.

But I guess I'll move to Kenya because that was one of the few, there were a few Swedish boarding schools in the world.

There was one in Brussels, Paris, London, and then one in Nairobi.

And I didn't want to miss more school because I'd taken a gap year when I went to China.

So I was like, I guess I'll go to Nairobi.

And I'm thinking now, like, I think if my parents had stayed together, granted, it was amazing that they made the right decision in every way.

But my roots kind of never grew back after that.

And I think I just kept on moving abroad and moving around and being really restless.

And yeah.

I have a home.

Yeah.

I mean, I have a home.

in the people around me.

And I have, I have a lot of different homes, you know, it's, I think what I'm realizing more and more is like, you cannot live without consequence and compromise.

And sometimes I can envy people who have that like same friend group that they had their entire life or that, you know, just really belong in a place where,

And I realized that would be amazing, but I've chosen different experiences.

And one of the upsides of that is I can feel home almost anywhere.