Personal Narrative: Friday Night Lights

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful lily with petals like a plum peel. It had a scent like honeycomb and a glitter like the moon. One day, a little girl named Perla skipped happily into her grandmother's new garden. Perla´s eyes dazzled as she strode up to the lily. She bent down to study the flower.

Moving from a house to another is pretty difficult for most people, for me, it was more of moving from a continent to another.Four years ago, I moved from  Iraq to the U.S.A. for a better life, a life that is full of opportunities.I had to make sacrifices in all kinds of ways.January 17th, I said my goodbyes and left behind my friends and most of my family members.The goodbyes were very sad and difficult, but moving to a place to start my life from the scratch was possibly the biggest intimidating change.

The first line of my collage is all softball pictures. There is one of me fielding a ball when

In life, it always helps to feel included or to have something to relate to. Mine just so happened to be a television show. I’d like to think I identify most with the characters from “One Tree Hill”. In this show, it begins while the kids are in still high school, juniors actually. Later in the seasons it continues on with their life outside of school as adults. The choices the characters made throughout the series and the many challenges they faced began to relate to me in different ways. Not so much the trials they faced exactly but with the way the characters handled them in general. As cheesy as it sounds, this is why the show has so much meaning to me now.

My mind has always led me to make things starting with drawing at an early age. In first grade I made small “comic books” with lined pieces of paper and colored pencils for my dad. When I was in fourth grade I made a stop motion film with action figures, Windows Movie Maker, and my mom’s camera. When I was in fifth grade I begged my parents for my own camera so that I could capture all the fun on our vacation. When I was in seventh grade I made a short educational film to compete in the Pennsylvania Middle School Computer Fair and went on to compete at a regional level. And now that I am in high school I am constantly looking for new ways to express the ideas in my head.

Moving is one of the top three most stressful events a person could go through in life, according to studies. For a lot of people, moving somewhere else might be just like a dream come true, but for me, this is not the case. Regardless of how great the new place might be, I fail to see the positive side of it and I only think of the people and things that I am leaving behind. My family and I have been moving around from place to place for the last 5 years non-stop. Goodbye has become so common; I cannot bare the pain of it much longer. I feel as though I have experienced it more than enough, and an outsider would probably assume that I am already used to switching schools, moving into a new house, and making friends, but I am certainly not. However, in time, things always get better and everything else just falls into place. Moving has helped me understand that patience and time will bring me the happiness and opportunities I was searching for from the

Many people go through the same situation that I went through when they are young. It was a tough time in my life, and it has made me a much stronger human being, physically and mentally. I feel stable and relaxed and I am comfortable with who I associate with, and my adjustment to my new environment. I often visit Michigan, but when I am there I feel homesick and want to go back to Virginia. My family supports me on all levels and friends back home. My younger siblings and

My family and I were moving from Boston, Massachusetts to Houston, Texas. My Dad’s job was relocating to Houston, Texas because of better resources for the company. I was going to have a new house, new friends, and a new school. Everything was going to be new and different. Sadly, moving is not as fun and exciting as it seems. It’s as sad as a kid without candy.

I’ve moved several times leaving behind family and friends. At one point my husband and I were tired of moving and saying goodbye to friends. My kids were sad leaving their school and starting all over again. Our last stop was North Dakota twenty years ago. It has been a blessed we got jobs we loves and my children ended with good friends, a good education, and jobs they loved.

"Fresh off the boat" or "F.O.B" for short is a term which means carrying your sense of fashion and culture from your country which clashes with the current country's culture. That term is what I was referred to when I first started school in America. I did not understand the American culture or the way the system worked.

Moving was something that I thought I would never have to go through, but I did, and it made me see the bigger picture of things. Little things in my life have changed since I have moved, little things that I didn’t really have appreciation for, or didn’t even notice before, are some of the things I miss the most. The sayings, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” and “You don’t know a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes,” I understand now that I have moved and experienced judgment and been on the other side of the glass. Moving taught me these things, which make it seem like I’m still upset about moving, and in some cases I am, but I cannot ever stay upset once I think to myself and wonder what I would have ever done without the people that I have met in Worland and the friends I have now. I can’t look back to when I lived in Casper and think of how my life would have gone on if I had stayed, and that doesn’t bother me because I actually think life is a better and a lot more fun here than it would have ever been in Casper. Moving has taught me some really important life lessons and has greatly impacted my life in a positive way, one that I will never

Throughout my experience with life adapting to a new place is always a challenge, from moving to another city or to another country, there bolted to experience new change from one previous one. For example, my family moves three times one from San Antonio to Beaumont, and last to Round Rock had in the past 5 or 4 years. In my case, the one event that has affected me much was going to high school

Yeah, I was really shocked when I saw it but at the same time very happy because it is such a funny fact (•ө•)♡.

Packing up your life and belongings is a difficult task to do. My family lived in Apple Valley, MN, until the week before my 7th birthday. My parents told my younger brother and I that we were moving to Hastings, MN. I had no idea where that was as a child. I was excited about this new experience. I have always been interested in travelling. When we arrived in Hastings, it was nothing like my old town. I knew nobody, all I knew was that I lived in the middle of the woods. Moving to a different town isn’t just about the new house, it is also about making new friends at a new school, and living a different lifestyle.

Living far from home, even for a short period of time, can be really hard at the beginning. We have to remember that all changes are difficult, but they are