Personal Narrative: To Express: Moving Away To A Distant State

Leaving my home in Hawaii and moving to Oregon was one of the hardest things for me to do. Maybe I would have felt better about it if my parents had asked me for my opinion before picking up our lives and moving to some place I had never even heard of before. I know I shouldn’t have cared that much. After all, I was only a 1st grader and even now my parents don’t consider how I’d feel before making decisions, so why would they then? At the end of 2007, I said goodbye to my best friends for the last time and left for Oregon.

Just recently, I found out I was moving to another state. Knowing I have to leave everything behind was awful. I was halfway through eighth grade, starting the second semester, and I was doing great. My grades were all A’s and I was happy there with all my friends, Amber, Marianna, and Makayla. Our house was decent, my sister and I both had our own rooms anything I would ever wish for. My dad had been promoted to another job, where he was going to get paid more than what he was currently earning. It was an amazing opportunity for my family. I was glad for my dad, but I still felt bad for myself.

I couldn't believe we were actually leaving Florida. My heart sank when I got into the car. "Why do we have to leave?" I asked my mom as I started to cry. My brother had helped us pack, and he walked up to the car and gave me a hug and said goodbye. Saying goodbye back was probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Earlier today a few of my friends dropped by to say goodbye. I love my friends in Florida i didn't want t leave them at all! But, The hardest part of today was leaving all of my family. I don't now what I'm going to do without knowing that they were not going to be a few minutes away anymore. They would be 16 hours away!

and not be here tomorrow cause I got to move i'm getting all my stuff back and all that cool stuff well I was really disappointed when my mom didn't sign the hoverboard so I could ride it hopefully I will get my xbox back today our house is pretty big my room is a bit smaller than the old one but they look the same I hope this day goes fast school is so boring and games are cool rgh xbox no one no what that even means it is like a modded xbox and you could hack the games and have mod menus and all that cool stuff it is really hard to do i looked up like 50 videos on how to do it and I finally figured it out it take a while to do but it's worth it and it is fun but if you know my house burned down.

Was there ever a moment in your life when one of your older siblings decide to move out, and you don’t know whether to be happy about it or depressed? Well it’s happening to me right now. My sister Brooke is at the age where she is ready and somewhat prepared to live on her own. But i don’t think i was prepared for her to leave.

Moving can be a pain in the neck! Everyone can relate to this. The pain has spread to my entire body as i was moving halfway across the world alone!! My two roommates, Luna and Lotus weren't coming along because they wanted to enjoy living in Italy a little while longer. I already got sick and tired of Italy. I was pretty excited when we first moved to Italy. However, the spark died fast because i already knew the place like the back of my hand. Lotus wanted to stay because she wanted to buy for own trip. Luna had enough money for own trip, but she always took forever to pack her stuff up.

It all started in 2012, I was only a mere 12 year old. I found out I would be moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, my moms job was transferring and I would be moving in just a few short months. I was terrified, I realized I would be starting a new school where I knew absolutely no one, having to start all over again, but most importantly I would be leaving my best friends, family and everything I had ever known. It’s a scary thought especially since I had never even moved houses before. I spent the next few months stressing out and slowly saying my painful goodbyes. My last day of school was the hardest of all, I slowly went around to all the people I grew up with saying goodbye, knowing i’d never see the majority of them again. I moved only a few days after that. I spent the majority of that summer in my new house with no friends, crying and freaking out about starting at my new school. It wasn’t until a few weeks before school started that I made my first friends on my new soccer team.

When my husband first purchased our RV, you said that you would be happy for me to come whenever we weren't traveling. Looking at our travel plans, there will be times that I am away for months at a time. I am concerned the few days I am there would be more of a disruption than a help. Would it be possible to chat about this, tomorrow, while I'm there?

The walls were starting to close in Ash and Green were yelling,” We got to get out! We got to move!” They were spewing random ways to escape but there was no way out. The walls were ten feet high and barbed. It was the perfect trap. I screamed ,“It's no use there's no way out.”

I stood at the top of the Park City water ramps, trying to balance the rational reasons for bowing out against my goal of learning and certifying a backflip on skis. To a barely five-foot eighth grader, the wooden jump seemed like a rickety and terrifying recipe for disaster. I was sure that my ill-fitting life vest would abandon me as I sank to the bottom of the pool, or that I would catch my sharp metal edges on the ramp and slam into the unforgiving concrete. I stood at the top and waited, even though there was no line. I dropped my skis; I felt detached from my body. Thoughts raced through my head. I concentrated on the mechanics of the jump, visualizing the backflip. I fought back intruding images of over-rotating and splatting the

Moving changes everything. For me, going from sunny California to bipolar South Dakota was huge. From what I thought was cold to getting here in December is definitely something I won’t ever forget. California's winter temperatures are like South Dakota's fall temperatures. Now when I go back home, and people are complaining about 40 degree weather, I just tell them that it's nothing compared to here. The switch changed a lot of things about me.

One day I moved to Indiana to live with my Dad, Step-Mom, and my little brother Evan. I want to have a deeper relationship with them. I am the second oldest child out of five kids. My Mom and Dad separated when I was young. My Dad got with my Step-Mom when I was 4 years old. They got married when I was 7 years old. I have three brothers and one sister. Their names are Jason, Zechariah, Evan and Bryttina. On July 5, 2015 I packed all my belongings into boxes and put them in my Step-Dad’s truck and left to go to Fishers Indiana. Where my Step-Dad, Mom, and big brother Jason met my Step-Mom, her friend Dana, and little brother Evan. I was excited to see them. I put my stuff in Dana’s van. Then we headed to Evansville Indiana.

I have waited all of my life to see you after i had moved, but you were not who I thought you would be like. You were nice, caring, and awesome to talk to in the years past, but when I moved all of that has changed. We started talking less and less, until the day I told you that my dad and I were coming down to visit you guys. I tried to talk to you when I was there but you just kept on blowing me off for other people that you knew never liked me and you were never friends with them until I moved. I knew that you always wanted to be one of the cool kids and be popular cause thats how you are. What i didn't know was that you would completely forget we were friends and pretended like I never existed, Why would you do that, we used to be friends,

On July 11th, 2016, I had given my mom the worst news. The news that I had given her was that I moved with my dad, who lives four hours away. I've been living with my mom for 14 years so it was very difficult to move away from her. I made this decision because I thought that there would be more opportunities for me and to advance my education. I was happy with my decision until I was on the phone listening to my mom crying. Eventually, I was having a good summer even though I was upset about my mom. I then started summer school to meet new people so I would have friends during the school year. I met some really awesome and sweet people. The people that I had met were from a big city instead of a small town like me so it took me a couple of

“Katelin. This is all a journey. A trip and right now you’re going nowhere. Your destination is getting back to living a normal life. What me and you are going to do is work out how to get there.”