The Importance Of Moving Across The United States

Six years ago my father lost his job, which was the only source of income. He filed for unemployment and received pay to support us. My family could not keep up with the monthly mortgage leading to an important decision of whether moving out of state because it was more affordable. We decided to stay in California because it was a hassle to move.

In the heat of summer 2011, I moved from small town Statesboro, Georgia to Columbia, South Carolina. I was only six at the time, so I hadn’t really thought much about moving to a new house, new school, or even a whole other state. In actual fact, I was mostly enthusiastic about moving. This was a both positive and negative experience for my whole family. This was the year my whole life changed.

Starting high school is always nerve wracking. New people, new responsibilities, and it's a step closer to gaining your independence. Normally students just move to the local high school within their district, but not me. While I was preparing to move to Bayard Rustin High School my parents had other plans. In the summer of 2013 My family and I moved from West Chester, Pennsylvania to Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. The new house was only an hour and a half away from the town I grew up in, but it was foreign. I didn’t know anyone, or where to meet people. It took the entire summer before I finally made some friends.

In Texas I had plenty of friends. I still have some, but we don’t talk as much anymore. I do go down there every summer but it’s never the same. Moving here has made me realize things have changed about my friends and I. They have changed who they hang out with and how they look, and it’s all quite weird. I realized how shy I am to change. When I moved here I didn’t talk to anyone because it was so new to me. After about a

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

At my old school I had plenty of friends, but none like the ones at Craft, or so I thought at the time. We had all met earlier in the year before move in day, but I did not talk to any of them. I was very nervous, as I usually am, to meet new people, to talk to new faces that I did not know. I realized once I arrived to Craft that was a major mistake as many of the other Craft kids had already been introduced to one another and became friends before arriving. The only other person in Craft I knew was my roommate and even he had made an abundance of friends. Luckily for me my family was still there, but I knew not for long. I knew that they would have to leave, and I was going to be there alone until I seen them again at the Craft presentation later on in the day. I was scared and nervous about what the immediate future held for me. I did not know if the people at Craft would like me. I did not know if I would like them, and that absolutely terrified

The average American is expected to move 11.4 times in their life. In my lifetime I’ve moved three times. I was born in Ohio, moved to Texas, moved to South Carolina, and finally back to Ohio. The first two times I was still rather young, so it didn’t effect me as much. Even while I was young I was kind and didn’t bother hiding myself.

When my parents first told me that I had to switch schools, I was in denial that I was actually going. I told myself over and over again that everything would work out, and that I’d be able to stay with my friends. The reason that I was so upset about moving, is because I used to go to a small private school, and I had grew up with my friends since preschool, and we were all very close. I had so many amazing friends that I didn’t want to lose connection with, but then my parents registered me, and I had no choice but to go.

Moving to a new town and having to transfer schools was not always fun. July of 2010, I’m starting a whole new life in a different town again. It is always a struggle making new friends and trying to fit in. Having to transport from town to town in order to go to a school is extremely frustrating. I was not accepted on the bus or in this new school of mine. I was afraid to ride the bus for the first time because there were older kids who looked like they could beat you up by just staring you. I thought I would be alone through this journey, but as I grew older I realized, I was wrong. Throughout my years attending Harrisburg Middle and High School, I faced my fear, developed life-long friendships and gained wisdom.

As a shy kid who had just adjusted to American culture, I had trouble finding new friends. Consequently, my time here was lonely, most of my interaction being with my parents. The irony is that my family only lived in Guam for nine months, so as soon as I established new relationships, they were gone. On to California we ventured. Here I was timid for the first month or so, but I had already learned from past experiences that in order to find new friends, I could not continue to be insecure. After spending three years in California, we moved to North Carolina. Timidity was not a factor in my transition here. I had taught myself to be an intrepid, social individual and had no problems establishing connections. The first year here, though, the district did not recognize my "gifted" status and placed me in a classroom for regular children. I quickly proved to my teachers and peers that I did not belong there through my hard work and

I grew up in a home where my mother made my sister and I move so many times I believe it was over 15 times since I was 3. I hated it so much having to switch homes every 6 months and trying to make new friends in the neighborhood was hard because every time I got close to someone and began having a good friendship I had to move . It

I’ve never been the “new kid” in school. Sure, I’ve made acquaintance with them when they’ve moved to my school, but I couldn’t ever imagine, and I didn't think that I would have to be put in their shoes. So naturally, this was the first thing I became stressed about. My mom told my sister and I that it would only be for a year and we could stay in contact with our friends in Dubuque through texting and facebook. She had just lost her job and

I believe that moving has highly influenced my outlook on life as well as the choices I make today and will make later in life. I have called 4 different states home, attended 5 different schools, and have experienced many different groups of people. I believe that the different cultures I've lived in and different people I have met have directly impacted my attitude. I would say the closest analogy to moving is the Chameleon. Everytime you move you have to adapt to your surroundings.

Moving can be terrifying, but it can also be exciting. People move for various reasons. Some reasons are to start a new job, to get away from a past life, or even to get into a relationship. Adolescents don’t admire moving because then they have to switch schools and make new friends. Some kids enjoy moving because they get a new house and make new friends. Moving wasn’t at all what I expected it to be, but I think it was one of the best decisions I’ve made.

This is the hardest part of moving for you. You have to make new friends, find your way around a new school, meet all your teachers, and find who to sit with at lunch. It isn’t like going from middle school to high school where you just don’t know which friends to sit with because you have the freedom to choose. It is more like you walk into a room of people staring and judging you. You sit alone because you don’t even have the courage to walk through the huge cafeteria to find someone else who looked new and was sitting alone. One day you finally do find that courage in yourself and make your first real friend at