celebrate the bay, our home

by Heather Ah San

When someone asks you where you’re from, what do you usually say?

In my freshman year of college in Oregon, I struggled as an outsider to describe my home base.

The answer Sonoma County was met with crickets.

Wine Country? “That’s close to L.A., right?”

Fine, the Bay.

You’d think I said I lived in Santa’s North Pole based on their fervent response. How lucky I am, they’d say, to live so close to San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, all connected by our beautiful bay waters that allow us to call our home “the Bay.”

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