The Importance Of Moving To Mount Pleasant

And I also remember the day, when my parents informed me that we were moving. The plan was to move out from the clustered city of New York, and shift into the suburban setting of New Jersey. As a young child, I was startled and not sure if I was ready to be able to commit and abstained the thought. The thought of leaving my friends and the place where I grew up in all my life, irked me emotionally. With a new city, came a new house and a new environment.

Growing up I lived in the small town of Duncan, Oklahoma; although, not nearly as small as the town I currently reside in. Throughout my adolescence, I attended Mark Twain Elementary School and as I was ending the third grade, my parents decided that we should move to Fox, Oklahoma to be closer to my grandparents. Moving would bring big changes my way such as a smaller school, living in the middle of nowhere, and new ways of entertainment. Living in the country has its pros and cons, but I can tell you the only thing I could think of the night we moved out there was the cons. Eventually, I had grown accustomed to the silence, lack of traffic, and having nothing to do. Looking back I feel that if we had not moved to the country then I would

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.

I have some news for you… You’re not going to like it”. The hardest thing for me yet, is trying to fit in. So, coming home to a parent saying we’re moving was amazing news, I couldn’t be happier. But, moving school districts was going to be a very hard obstacle to maneuver around. One year later, coming home from work, my father came up to me and told me he got a promotion in his job. I was thrilled for him, after that he told me we have to move again, this time to Texas. This is not what I had in mind, however, I still was happy for him and expected myself to accept the idea of making more friends in a different state.

Growing up in a very little town in Illinois was a lot different than growing up in Houston, Texas. When I was in the fourth grade I found many things to have changed about my surroundings, I currently lived in a place where, the people thought and acted differently. I know now reading about it and understanding more that some of those changes were for the good and some were not. Small town living has its advantages such as, very close friendships, close approximately to may things, and friendly people. Looking back, I also realized that there were a lot of disadvantages such as lack of transportation, affects of a poor education, no opportunities for growth, crime, no diversity, and low paying jobs and housing. Now that I am older, and aware of the affects of living in a small town, I can see how these many things affected my life and will continue affect it in the future.

Moving is very stressful on anybody, especially for children. When my mother made the decision to move to Piedmont, I was in shock. I have been in the same school district for seven years with the same friends that I loved and was very comfortable around. Moving to a new town freaked me out. I have never heard of Piedmont, and did not realize that it was 30 minutes from where I lived. My uncle-in-law graduated from Piedmont. Both of my cousins also graduated from Piedmont, the Cornman’s. I had a new life ahead of me, and did not know what to expect.

When we did finally move from my childhood home in Illinois to our new home in Knoxville, Tennessee, the only thing I could think about was how isolated and scared I felt. What was it going to feel like on my first day of class when I was surrounded entirely by strangers? I will always vividly remember walking into my new high school and feeling so lost. Every class I walked into was an alien environment and I had to struggle to keep my composure.

Moving away from home has been one of the biggest challenges that I have had to face so far in the eighteen years of my life. Moving from my home town to the collge dorm was a difficult transition that was necessary for growing up both mentally and physically as an individual. The little more than five hundred miles that separates me from my friends and family has allowed me to become the person I am today, and the distance allows me to grow and become more familiar with things that are a whole new experience for me. One of the many new things that I have had to deal with was making new friends in my environment.

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.

When I was in the fourth grade I moved from a small town in Kentucky to Greenwood, Indiana. The move was one of the worst things I thought could ever happen to me. As I started school that year, it was extremely hard for me to make friends. I learned that I have an adjustment disorder, so it is extremely difficult for me to adjust to major life changes. I never realized it but reading Harry Potter would be what led me through the transition to not only a new place, but a new life.

As a kid I grew up in a different state. When we moved away, my surroundings changed along with the poeple and culture I was used to. It forced me to adapt to a new set of surroundings, new people in a new place, and a whole routine.

Packing up your life and belongings is a difficult task to do. My family lived in Apple Valley, MN, until the week before my 7th birthday. My parents told my younger brother and I that we were moving to Hastings, MN. I had no idea where that was as a child. I was excited about this new experience. I have always been interested in travelling. When we arrived in Hastings, it was nothing like my old town. I knew nobody, all I knew was that I lived in the middle of the woods. Moving to a different town isn’t just about the new house, it is also about making new friends at a new school, and living a different lifestyle.

At the age of two, My parents had split up. Both of them rather young and new to parenting, decided it was best if they started a new chapter in their lives-without each other. While this split can seem bad, my stepmother entered my life that same year. My stepmother has been in the majority of my life and I have not remembered a day without her. She entered my life when I was two years old and married my father seven years later. My younger self was pretty comfortable with my three parents at first. Until I arrived at kindergarten, I realized other kids did not have the same arrangement as I did. I remember a classmate asking me, “So your parents were never married?”. This was unchartered territory for me, I never was taught the so

Growing up, in my childhood years, there has always been four family members. It has always been my father, mother, brother and me. My brother is my half-brother, but he has lived with me my whole life. I would depart with him to his dad’s side of the family on certain occasions. I attained closely to his side of the family and we called each other relatives even though we actually are not. Most of the time, his dad was not around even at family functions. My mom had my brother when she was a senior in high school. When she had my brother, she did not have it easy. My grandmother did not want anything to do with my mom when she achieved pregnancy. My grandmother had kicked her out when she became pregnant and told her she is an adult now so she needs to take care of herself and the baby. My mom worked at a fast-food restaurant for the longest time and she did not have the needs to feed my brother as she needed to. They were very poor for a while, but my mom found a new job and that helped them tremendously. Not only did she acquire more money to support her and my brother, but also she met my father. They then married a couple years later and my father chose to appear in court to extract custody of my brother. To this day, if you ask my brother who his dad is he will say my father. His birth dad was never around and never wanted anything to do with him, so in my brother’s eyes our father is his dad. My brother was about two years old when my parents married, therefore; my

I’ve lived in three different states and attended six schools over the past eight years. Relocating from Texas to Michigan, and later Michigan to Georgia were big adjustments for me. I missed my friends and close relatives. However, I knew I had to make the best of my circumstances. Through these experiences, I began to learn to be more flexible, become more open-minded to different traditions, and be adventurous in different parts of the country-I played volleyball, joined a dance team, and even went skiing! At school, I also focused on excelling in my classes and challenge myself like I did when adjusting to a new town.