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Personal Narrative: Across The Country And Back Again

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Across the Country and Back Again
Have you ever considered dropping your old life, moving someplace far away, and starting over? I've done that, twice in my life. When I was seven or eight, my family decided to move across the country. My mother, who had been born in California, wanted to go back there and live on a farm. My sisters and I were enthusiastic about the idea of living on a farm. My father was into the idea because his mom lived in California, and he was interested in visiting her. I was afraid of flying at the time, so we didn't take a plane. Instead, we decided to drive the whole way. My two younger sisters and I would be riding in the minivan with our mother. My father would be right behind us, driving the U-Haul with all of …show more content…

There were ten acres of heavily forested land surrounding us, and it was all ours. We lived on top of a very steep hill, and our driveway was paved with gravel. Needless to say, sometimes we had to get out of our car and walk the whole way up. It wasn't all bad, though. From our hilltop, we had an excellent view of our surroundings. Trucks used the roads below to transport cargo to and from the nearby quarry, but we were high enough up that the noise didn't bother us. It was a good place to raise animals, so we got lots of pets. We had brought my dog Rufus all the way from Columbus. Rufus was a mutt that looked like a German Shepherd, he was as old as me, and I loved him dearly. We rescued another dog from the pound, a black Labrador named Fanny. I had dreamed of getting a pet pig ever since I had seen Babe, so my mother got me a pet pot-bellied pig named Pokey. He got a bit lonely, so we got another pig, named Spotty. We also got pet chickens to give us eggs. We had six hens, but I can't remember their names. We also had two roosters, named Godzilla and King Kong because they liked to fight each other. Their names were my idea. I was around nine at the time. Our old cat Junebug had died a long time ago, so we got a new cat named Curly. We had lots of fun with our new pets, and it didn't take long for me to get settled …show more content…

We kept up that arrangement in California up until the fourth grade. My parents were worried that my social skills were being stunted by homeschooling, so they transferred me to the local elementary school. I enjoyed it, but I was very nervous about middle school. Because of this, my mother decided to send me to a Waldorf charter school instead. Waldorf schools are alternative schools known for being less rigid, and that appealed to my mother. I spent grades six and seven attending the charter school, and I enjoyed it. Unfortunately, it was a thirty-minute drive to the school and they didn't have any buses, so my mother had to drive me. We spent a lot on gas as a result. I transferred to the local middle school for grade 8, and it wasn't bad at all, but I kind of missed my old

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