Moving out of your comfort zone is difficult. When being used to certain people and certain things, then having to get up one day and all is changed is challenging. A new city means one will have to adapt to the way things are around the community. In my ninth grade year of high school, I moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Moving to a new town or city is hard. It is a good experience, but it is also a dreadful one for some. Moving back to Vicksburg, Mississippi has affected me in various ways. One way it has affected me is I had no choice but to meet new people. Meeting new people sometimes means new friends. I had lived in Vicksburg when I was young, but it was different this time now that I was older. Although already having multiple …show more content…
Trying to keep up with my previous friends and hanging out with my brand-new ones was tough for me. I had to join clubs to improve my social life and the JROTC drill team. I gained majority of my new friends through NJROTC. Additionally, it had affected me because I did not know anybody. It took time for me to meet people. I had to trust my instincts and make new friends. Because of not talking to anyone, I felt lonely the first couple of months I was here. It was hard to meet people because you do not know their intentions when talking to them. Therefore, I was force to always keep a guard up. I did not meet my close friends that I have now, until the completion of my sophomore year. Finally, moving to Vicksburg made me depressed the first couple of months. My first day of Warren Central High school was tough. When I got home, I cried to my mother. I was depressed because I did not know any one at the school. I had missed my old school and friends. Walking the halls all alone was depressing. Unfortunately, my grades were not as high as I was used to them being. As a result of this, I had to get used to my teachers and how they taught. I also started going to their tutoring sessions. Living in a new city or
I tried making new friends. It never really worked though. I guess I was just not ready. I didn't try. I did not want to try.
I believed it was going to be difficult to make new friends. I was not sure how they reacted to new people or how their personalities were. I also was not sure how to approach them. When I began to talk with my new classmates, I realized we have many common interests. Making new friends became easier for me overtime by simply finding common interests and being kind to others.
SPC McDowell this counseling discusses your roles and responsibilities for performing the CQ duty in the Bldg #7936. SPC McDowell you have CQ duty which starts at 0900 on March 6th 2017. You will be the CQ runner, I expect you to show up at least 10 minutes prior to the duty start time. You have been briefed at battalion regarding your roles and responsibilities for the CQ duty. If you have questions don't hesitate to reach out to me. Notify me when you assume CQ duty as well as when you come off from the duty. Assist the CQ NCO as needed to accomplish any duty
Moving far away from family and friends can be tough on a child at a young age. It has its pros and cons. One learns how to deal with moving away from the people they love and also learn how to deal with adjusting to new ways of life. Everything seems so different and at a young age one feels like they have just left the whole world behind them. That was an experience that changed my life as a person. It taught me how to deal with change and how to adjust. It developed me from a young boy into a mature young man.
My sophomore year of high school got off to a rough start. After going to a small charter school my first year, I decided I wanted to go to a more traditional high school. But I soon realized that it was not the school for me. I transferred again, this time to the school my older sister was going to. It was a small arts school in the same district. My sister kept telling me how much she liked it there and how it was different from other schools.
One of the downfalls of moving so much was the fact that I had to switch schools every 3 to 6 months. That meant I was always the new kid, the one with no friends, the one no one eats lunch with and the one that always gets picked on and pushed around, you know that kind of crap. But this only bothered me for a little bit then I just grew thick skin.
My student involvement on campus has given me the feeling of being more than just a number at UNCC. The idea of making friends was a big concern for me during my freshman year because of the size of the campus and student body. Fortunately, it was made easier once I stepped out my comfort zone and began to join a few organizations. By networking through organizations, I could find people who I shared similar interest with. I did not have pretend to be someone else, or fabricate stories to make myself sound interesting. By staying true to myself, I met wonderful people that I still talk to today. I even met one of my friends at The Example. Walking around campus is no longer lonesome or frightening because now I recognize people. Going to sports
Before entering my freshman year at Drexel, I attended a summer program at Drexel called Dragon Scholars. I was able to connect with four people, so I did not have the awkward first-day-experience where I pretended to be the friendliest person in the world to become friends with people on my floor. At the time, I thought coming into Drexel with close friends was a benefit, but I soon realized not having the awkward first-day-experience was a disadvantage. I became reliant on my four friends for social activities, so I did not see the need to build a
We moved here for the final four weeks of summer to play football. It wasn't too bad but i wasn't really making friends like normal, and things were going a little slow. I did not like it and wanted to move again but I had to push through and face the music. I ended up having a great football camp and made a good amount of friends. I went through all of freshman year with a smile on my face meeting new friends, hanging out with new people and having a ton of fun.
Having nothing to compare it to it seems like a giant new world. Thankfully I had some wonderful teachers that helped me on the path to success. In the second grade I left all of my friends behind and the security of the only school I had ever known to move to an American Military base in Germany. The classes were larger and the number of classes per grade far exceeded that of my last school. Like a soldier I marched on through third, fourth, and fifth grade; then to moving up to an even more impressive building for sixth, seventh and eighth grades. It seemed as though every day I met new people. I did find a close group of friends within my classes and enjoyed learning from very diverse teaching staff. My classes were filled with people from many different parts of the world; we could shade a United States map almost full with all the places everyone had lived. While it was educational and exciding it always seemed as I was on an amusement park ride just trying to hold on. It was the move just before the start of high school which brought me to Texas for the first time. With four options for high school my family and I did plenty of research deciding where to live. It seemed like a huge decision having options for first time in my life, with so many different things to consider. While other schools had a larger student body and a few more options for some
As i was growing up my environment changed frequently every two years due to the fact that I was born into a military family. So we would move whenever it was time to move, but that never changed who i was. Moving became a strong habit that I had to get used to. Moving away from where I was borned and how I was raised. I was a country girl who was born in Portsmouth,Virginia but was raised in the country part of Suffolk,Virginia, where everyone was related and always happy to see you. Since I was raised in the country,I had to walk miles to our neighbors. And if we didn’t walk, then we would ride dirt bikes or four wheeler to meet up together. The older I became the further we would move. Which caused a huge impact in my life.
Any person that is new to a school or place can easily tell you that it comes with its problems. Everything you know and find comfort in is ripped away, removed, and then replaced with something new and unfamiliar. Okay yes, that was a tad on the extreme side. I myself recently relocated to Bainbridge Island after having lived my whole life in a beach town called Pacifica right under San Francisco. When I moved here I had to deal with many challenges. Some of most difficult things I had to overcome this school year were stepping outside of my comfort zone and meet new people, being placed in a spanish class a little out of my league, and switching living conditions.
Even though I moved, I still went to the same school with my two sisters because we only moved down a couple houses. In my 11 years at St. Vincent Martyr School, I have made many friends and even lost some too. All the friends that I have lost have either moved schools or moved away. Because I have lost friends, I have been forced into making new friends and this taught me new social skills that I really needed.
At age twelve, I left what I knew behind in Palo Alto, California to start a new life in Southern California. Change was not new to me. In Palo Alto, I was the new kid from Alabama. I had gone to a different middle school than every else and had to make new friends on my own. Despite this, I always found a way to adapt to my new surroundings. This time, even though there would be new people surrounding me, I thought it would be easier to make friends because of I was moving with in the same state.
Have you ever heard the sharp pinging sound of the find my iphone alert? Well, imagine hearing that sharp pinging sound while you’re driving around at one in the morning. Oh, wait. I forgot to mention the most important part, my parents didn’t know I was out driving around with a bunch of friends at one in the morning. Keep in mind, the only people who can ping my phone from find my iphone are, my mom, dad, and brother. Immediately as the sound filled my ears, my heart stopped and my stomach dropped. Was this just a nasty prank that my brother decided to play on me? Although my mind was trying to convince myself it was, deep down in the pitch black pit of my stomach, I knew it wasn’t. I couldn’t even think of