Personal Narrative: My Move To Michigan

Moving from the South to the Midwest was a huge change in my life. For my whole life I grew up to the southern hospitality and the tang of salt in the air since the beach was always less than 5 minutes away wherever I lived. Now I moved to a place where they flip you off to say hi, and the closest thing to an ocean is a sea of grass that seems to go on forever. Although I am now adapted to the change for the most part, it took me awhile to break in to the social norms of an average Midwest kids.

Don't you think dad’s are the best in the world? My dad is the greatest person I know he is funny, motivational, awesome and last but not least caring. He is the type of person who can make you smile or laugh even if you are down. He is hilarious, not just with his words but, with his actions as well. `My dad is liked and loved by anyone who has the chance to meet him, for instance he could be buying a bow for hunting from some random stranger, and they become the best of friends. My dad did not grow up in lower Michigan where we now live and where I was born, he grew up in the Upper Peninsula 2 hours from Wisconsin in Kingsford.

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.

At the end of Freshman year, I moved away to Michigan from Illinois. I lived in Illinois since I was born until the move. Michigan to me, seemed to be too far of a move. My parent’s friend is who gave them the idea that Michigan was a “better place” than Illinois.

I knew moving to a new state half way across the country would change my life, but I wasn’t sure how. Little did I know this move would change my life for the better. It was Mid afternoon on December 26th 2011, my dad had just dropped me and my siblings off at the airport to go move halfway across the country with our mom to Colorado Springs, Colorado. We had walked into the airport knowing there was no turning back. The floor glistened as if it had just been cleaned. So clean I could see my reflection staring back at me as if it were saying “this is it.” We began to walk toward the security check. Which by the way is my least favorite part of going on any trip. Nobody said a word. My sister Devon, my brother Ian. Not a sound. We had successfully

As of now, I’ve moved six times, however the most memorable place was Chicago. Moreover, the reason why my family and I moved from Boston to Chicago was due to my dad’s promotion along with the surrounding schools. Before moving to Chicago, we used to live in Boston and the environment of both places are completely divergent in terms of the personality of people and how. Likewise, given a short notice, it took awhile to adapt to the environment because the decision of moving happened suddenly.

I live in the city of Detroit very near the Hamtramck, michigan. My address puts me in the 14th Congressional District which incl7des but is not limited to the cities of Detroit, Hamtramck, Southfield, Farmington Hills, and st.clair shores. Brenda L. Lawrence is my Congressional representative. Her political affiliation is the Democratic party.

“ Sure mom,” I answer. I came down the step with my heart beating like crazy. I reached the last step,I took a deep breath and I walked into the living room where my Mother and Father was there waiting.

My first move was very rough moving away from everything I knew, to a whole new place I don't even know anything about.It took me a long time to know how to get around our city. Now I have to learn an entirely new place. It was everything I ever really knew, and then having to start over from the ground up . But, I guess it might be easier since I am a bit older so I might come to even better understanding of my surroundings. So we decided to move to Ohio, so we stayed in a camper in Logan,Ohio till we found a house to move into. It was different living in the camper we had no internet,no cable,and it was quite secluded.I guess you could say we were camping,but it wasn’t too bad.I got to read a lot of my books and take quiet walks it was very

BOOM! Just like that your life could change on the spin of a dime and that’s what happened to me 2 years ago right around this time of the year. My father was an engineer for a place of employment in the state of Indiana, which is a place my family has lived for their whole life up until this point. The place where my father worked at was not an option he would like to continue so he terminated his employment and acquired a new job in the state of Michigan. Before I knew it my life was upside down and the life I once thought was whole and complete was now empty and afraid of the journey ahead. I finally completed my journey of permanently living in Michigan during June of the year 2015 in a community where quality and status was a way of life.

“Why do we have to go?” I asked. My mom had just told me that we were moving to Jackson. Just thinking about moving made thoughts race through my head. What will happen to my life? What about my friends? After moving, I gained three life skills; relationships, creativity, and humor.

While I was packing my bags to set off on my second biggest adventure, coming to Iowa State being my first, I was feeling nothing short of ecstatic. Yes, I may have had to step out of my comfort zone of being around in a familiarized area within Ames or being around my best friends at ISU, but I was ready to explore new lands and make new friends. And the next four and a half months in London proved to be exactly what I had in mind.

When I was eight years old, I moved from Mineola, Texas, to Gretna, Nebraska. I went from having twenty-six acres of land, a close community, and oodles of friends, to having a rental house where I couldn’t dig holes in the backyard and went to a huge school where I barely knew everyone in my grade. This was a huge adjustment for me. After the first two to three weeks of the school year, I finally made a best friend, whom I would continue to be best friends with until I moved again ten months later, and would then fall

I am fortunate enough to be blessed with such a family that has been able to make friends wherever we have moved. And believe me, we have done a lot of moving. Though we always stayed in the same little town, I dreaded it. Dreaded the packing, the strangeness and the weariness that came from moving. It was tough to be completely jerked free from our home every few years, but it also came with the thrill of a new beginning.

Moving is also one of my favorite things, but the main reason is changing schools. I changed from Lange to Gentry. When I first heard we were moving I was so mad because at Lange I had so many. Friends that I never wanted to forget but I only knew about 3-5 people at gentry so it was scary for me. The first week of school I had to go to my friend Charlie’s house because at the time we had not moved to into our new house. During school, it was a shock to me because at the time I did not know that Gentry and Lange look the same so, during the first day, I knew every single room from up to down. When I got my schedule for the first time I did not have everything I did at Lange. On my original schedule, I did not have band or AVID on there so I had to go to the office and get