"Arrival"

What does arriving mean? Arriving means "reaching a place at the end of a journey or a stage in a journey".  However, how do you know when you arrive? Is it when you take a rest? Is it when you end your day? For some people arriving is only something that happens when you reach a place where you are truly safe.  Many people travel on journeys to find that place of safety for them but how many of them really find that place of safety?

As I referred to in my post on Leaving Amanda Knox's story is a story where she finds that place of safety and arrives.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/amanda-knox-overwhelmed-returns-home-seattle/story?id=14668423

In this article it is all about Amanda returning home to safety.  She had been through a lot with all of the murder trials and being held there because of this, so when she was finally able to arrive back in the USA she had finished her horrible journey and returned to her place of safety.

Not only is arriving about finding a place of safety but also a home.

Home:

a. An environment offering security and happiness.

b. A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.

As you can see a home is a place where you can truly feel like your are accepted and feel like your are safe.  For a lot of migrants the country that they arrive in is not their home, it is only a place of freedom or a place of residence.  When I did my interview with the migrant I asked him when he truly felt like this was his home, and he told me that "It wasn't until I started a family".  He felt like this was his home because he now felt like he had something here to care for, to protect.  

So when is it that migrants truly arrive at their destination? Is it when they reach a place of safety? Or is it when they finally find a home? This is an interesting question as many people have different ideas of when it is that they finally arrive.