Rational And Approach Of The Moving Preparation Phase Of This Project

I didn’t want to have to leave my friends in Nashville and be forced to make new ones in Atlanta. I didn’t want to get used to another new house or another city. I just wanted to stay in the only place I could call home. As the day of my departure approached, I thought of running away, so I wouldn’t have to move and my dad could keep his job in Atlanta. Thankfully, I never went through with it. When the day finally arrived, I was everything but ready. My mom had picked my brother up from school early to help move boxes out of the house and into our car while the movers haled broken down beds, and other pieces of furniture into their industrial moving trucks. Once everything was packed into trucks, paper work was finished and dogs were loaded in the car, we began the long 4-hour trip to Atlanta as dusk made its way to the sky. The trip itself was a calm one, we managed to avoid any major accidents on the highway, and we were traveling around 8 o’clock so the traffic had died down. As we drove I couldn’t help but think back to the friends I left and what was to come

In the essays “Homeplace” by Scott Russell Sanders and “I Must Be Going” by Richard Ford, the authors discuss their very different viewpoints on whether people should move around or stay put in one home. In “Homeplace,” Sanders argues against moving with a didactic and self-righteous tone that aims to put his philosophy of staying put above any other. However, in “I Must Be Going,” Ford approaches the topic differently, explaining his own reasons for moving from home to home. Although he is defensive in reaction to others criticizing his choices to move, he does not put his method of living above that of others, but simply seeks to justify it. Although the two authors discuss the same topic in their essays and both use evocative methods of writing to explore the motivations behind moving or staying put, they do so using very different viewpoints and attitudes towards transience.

Transitions are never an easy thing to conquer. It is often hard and stressful to cope with changes to one’s surrounding, but in the cases in which one manages to conquer this obstacle, elevation of knowledge and experience are great results gained from this achievement. I originally came from Africa and recently moved to the United States to join my mother and my step father. This great change in the things I had become accustomed to in my daily life was not easy, furthermore taking into account the fact that I had never experienced a transition so little as shifting from one residence to another.

When I submitted the lengthy application to the Teton Valley Ranch Camp in Dubois, Wyoming my mind kept sinking back to the fear of flying away to my comfortable close knit home to work at a ranch camp 2,610 miles away. My mom persisted that I should do something different with my summer. After being a camper at the Teton Valley Ranch Camp, I thought it would be nice to contribute some of my time to the place that made me outdoorsy and confident woman. However, I did not want to leave the summer before college started. I wanted to stay in the same routine with my friends who lived on Nantucket Island. I did not want to meet new coworkers, far away from home was daunting. I enjoyed my circle of friends in Nantucket because I was comfortable with my everyday routine. Visions of anxiety swept over my mind; the fear crept over my mind with the years of high school which constrained my personality. The boarding school years trapped me in like a prison with no welcoming smiles. I wanted to return to my happy place in Nantucket with my friends. Despite my fears, I continued to think of the outcome of going to a new place far away, that could be life changing. Life is not about being sheltered and always feeling comfortable, the bumpy rollercoaster is the best way to

Hurdles and obstacles are the major building blocks of one’s character and stamina. When faced with troubles, some stumble and fall, others pick themselves up and grow from the experience. Without a doubt, there is a particular hurdle that has inevitably shaped the way I am today. This massive hurdle was none other than the transition from moving across the United States. Not only was the move an environmental change geographically, but culturally as well.

One year ago, my parents shattered my heart by breaking the news that we were going to be moving to Michigan. At first, I thought that this was just a joke and I didn’t believe them, until I realized that they were serious. Once the harsh reality started settling in, questions immediately began popping into my head as tears streamed

A personal change not only can affect the person making the change but their family and friends as well. Each person is an end product of all their life experiences that they have endured as well as the process of changes they have gone through to come out the other end. Change is inevitable and every person endures change from time to time in their lifetimes. Change is hard, it can cause emotional and physical pain sometimes, In fact our mind subconsciously tries to steer us away from emotional, physical, and spiritual pain. Change is really hard to accept and proper planning should be done in order to avoid some unpleasantness. In the following paper I will discuss a difficult and challenging change I went through when I decided to be the first person in my family to go to college.

“Can we talk about moving to Minnesota?”, my father would ask. “I don’t want to, ” I’d always responded. This lasted for four years, my father always looking towards the future, my future, but never willing to press me towards the opportunities he saw. I had friends, an expansive yard where I could play, take pictures, observe the wildlife, a quaint home in a quaint neighborhood attending a quaint school in northern Mississippi, and each time the question came up, a feeling of fear welled up as I thought about how different it would all be, really the complete opposite: a rural home to a suburban apartment, a school with fewer than a thousand students for grades K-12 to one quadruple the size, a world with friends, one without. Eventually, after my eighth grade year, I let in to my father and allowed logic to clear the emotions that

i receive news that our family was going to relocate to a new country during the summer of fifth grade. When I received thaw news, I was lost. I didn't understand why we had to relocate. We have a good house located in the biggest city in our country, Sai Gon, a good school that I’m going to and a family that we can spend time together. I didn’t understand why we had to move to a whole new world that was located so far away from our hometown.

In 2010, my life had a dramatic change. My parents told me that I would immigrate to the U.S. At that time, I felt lost. I wondered what the future would be like and what obstacles I would face. Yet, this feeling was faded away soon when I saw the beautiful night scenes of countries that the airplane passed. I learned that there were many things that I have never seen. Immigrating to another country would give me an opportunity to discover and explore more new things. Yet, life was hard for the first several months in the U.S. I needed to speak English and face a completely new environment. Although it took me 30 minutes to read a single page of textbook, I opened the

Not all things in life are certain. My mother and father leaving me with my aunt in Ghana was one example. They left for the U.S to find “a better life” than what was in their homeland. For me, life in Ghana was the best. I remember playing soccer in the afternoon sun, running from stray dogs, and eating fried plantains with beans for dinner. However, I didn’t see the looming threat of violence that was hidden beneath the surface of my fun life; I didn’t know danger was at my doorstep.

As I had moved more and more, the concept of moving became easier to me. Although the situation was still upsetting, I managed to survive. That being said, I had to take a different approach to the issue of moving. I had to change my attitude in order to get over this ordeal that was going on. Instead of focusing on all the negatives, I had to focus my brain on all of the positives of living so far

People get caught up in monotonous, repetitive lives. Daily routines provide comfort and a sense of safety, but change offers a chance to revitalize a life. The problem arises when comfort and monotony outnumber change and the fear of the unknown. Humans naturally tend to choose the easier path, the one requiring less work, risk and sacrifice. By choosing the easiest choice, people entagle in an endless cycle of comformity. For example, they might choose to work in their hometown instead of risking moving to another city. This shows how people often make decisions based on the familiar rather than the unknown. But change offers hope. It solves invariability by providing unexpected, exciting and diverse opportunities. A person moving from their

My dad went on to explain several reasons for the move – family and education stood out amongst many. I did not complain as I hoped and dreamed for this day. I thought I would be jumping with excitement, but instead I felt anxious.

Some lives have to endure more fluctuation than others do, for sure, but no life is without circumstances will test and challenge one’s capabilities. Having wanted to stay true to my root while adjusting to life in a new country was more challenging than expected. With the abrupt change in not only culturally, but also socially and environmentally, alienation sound like an understatement. “For new things to begin, something has to end” so I was told. The repeated phrase pressed down on me as though what I felt was invalid. Those stormy years feeling like a fish out of water seemed all too blurry to recall.