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Essay About Moving School

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The most significant challenge that I've had to face was moving schools and even states. It was some of the biggest and quickest changes I've ever had to deal with and it wasn’t easy especially at ages 8 through 11. I learned to adapt to things faster so I wouldn’t get the feeling of being left behind. This experience definitely changed me as a person making me stronger and independent. Moving to new schools is never simple; moving meant leaving everything behind and having to start over. From preschool to third grade I had gone to the same elementary, had lots of friends and knew most of the teachers. The school itself had been around for about 60 years and they decided it was getting old so they wanted to build a new school in the back. The only problem was not all the students would be transferring over to the new school and I was one of those students. …show more content…

We got to visit California almost every summer to see family and go to the fun amusement parks like Disneyland and Universal Studios. I was excited because that meant I’d get to leave the new school behind , along with the mean people and start over. The schools in California were definitely a lot more different than the schools in Idaho, one difference being that the schools in California were more outdoors with bungalows. I also realized there was much more hispanics in California than there was in Idaho. I was beginning my last year of elementary in a new place and then going on to middle school which was exciting. What I learned in this new school with these new people in a completely different state was that being myself was probably the most important thing in life. I didn’t enjoy the feeling of having to put other people’s wants and needs over my own, that wasn’t helping me at all. I made a lot of friends in 5th grade because they liked me for who I was, not for who I pretended to

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