the homesick project

maybe defining home is too complicated for words to express... but luckily we have music. Rachel W.yen and martitara made sure of it.it's been four months. for the first time since the first episode, homesick is happening outside of korea. this time to say goodbye.goodnight and farewell.

there comes a point where, no matter how hard homesickness strikes, you have to face the truth: you may not be able to come back to what you miss. the only way to be safe, then, is to become your own home. to build one wherever you go.in the most chaotic episode ever to be heard in this podcast, sofi and diana —two young students from different parts of the american continent— will go through some tips that may help construct that home of your own, from creating new traditions to sharing memes.

if there is something that moves humanity forward, that is humanity itself. people make people dream, fight, stay, go away, love, regret, believe, feel alive... and feel like home. in this week's episode we will try to define home as people —or, as our title suggests, we are home— with the help of nina (@pleurnicheuuuse), who was born in morocco and has spent three years attending college in seoul. from starting to feel fully in peace the moment you meet someone worth it to how hard goodbyes are, going through the importance of friendship and the way it can shape you, this episode is a particularly intense one. you have been warned.

until now, we have tried to define home by taking guesses on what it is. but what happens when the thing you feel is that your home /isn't home/?jasmine has lived her whole life in the philippines, but her family and passport tell the world she is from korea. now that she has moved to seoul in order to pursue her studies, the feeling of homeless-at-home strikes harder than ever. together we'll talk about the obstacles in belonging, getting lost in the streets in order to call them yours and the parallel narratives that help you hold on.

when we say we /feel/ at home... what do we mean?as an exchange student, sonia felt seoul so much like her home that she just knew it wasn't her last time there. with her major in english studies finished, she has come back to (metaphorically) star in her own coming-of-age movie and is ready to get all emotional about the people she has left behind, the ones she found here, the places that bring her comfort, the memories that help her to hold on and, most of all, the feelings all of them are capable of arising.

when you are a kid, they teach you that house and home are synonyms... but are they?in our third episode, michelle —a dutch business student— will join the homesick project to discuss about home being a physical thing, the importance of food, missing yesterday but also today, how humans change through time and how places stay the same.

home can be a lot of different things, and one of them is far. alex, a mexican mechatronic engineer in the making, will be our guest in this week's episode. with him we'll talk about goodbyes, new beginnings, missing what you love and dealing with all those things that hurt when everything you belong to is far, far away.

we all miss home at some point. during my childhood, the mere though of being far from mine would drown me alive.but... what was home, exactly? a blur of comfortable feelings? my family? the eight floor balcony where i gazed at the stars when i was a kid?as of today, i still haven’t figured it out. and when i decided to be part of an exchange program and live for four months in seoul, korea, i thought… maybe that was the perfect place to start an investigation. one in the shape of an eight-episode podcast + virtual zine.this is the first step.