One significant experiance in my life has been my dad being in the Millitary. My dad was in the Millitary for a short time of one year before he decided it wasnt for him. But in that one year we moved two times. We moved from my hometown of Anacortes Washington to California. I started school and things werent that bad, I made friends and had a park right across the street from my house! life was good. But then we had to move again, to Arizona. We moved from sea side California to the Arizona Dessart. This is where I was really challanged, I didnt make friends as easy as the first move. We moved from a spacious town house with a park to a tiny appartment with no backyard. I distanced myself from my parents and everyone else in my family, I…
I learned from the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson that friendship is tender and brutal event. When Melinda loses all her friends at a party just before she starts high school due to a grave of misunderstanding, she’s forced to reevaluate the nature of friendship. This story teaches me that friendship can change overtime and people can change too. This proves that you should trust no one because one day people can hurt you and let you down without knowing the true part of the story. In the book, everyone hates Melinda when she didn’t mean any harm, she just made the right choice.…
As much as humans like to control their own lives, there are many aspects that are outside of our control. For example, we do not choose the families into which we are born or the places where we grow up. The same is sometimes true of friendships. Some friends we choose because we identify them as people who are similar to us and because they offer us something we want. Occasionally, however, we make unexpected friends. For example, a young person bumps into someone at the library who is crying because she has lost an important paper she was writing for school. As a result, the two become friends and learn that helping people through tough times is at the core of strong relationships.…
Once we arrived to Illinois we went by 26st. There my father was waiting for us outside with my cousins and aunt. The first thing I did was reach for my father. Our first few weeks in Chicago were a bit lunatic. By saying that the next day after we arrived my sister and I went to the store and a shoot broke out. My mom came into the store running to pick us up. I honestly was scared of my new home. Once school started I started to have a bit of comfort in the neighborhood. Once I went to school it hit me that I was not anymore in Mexico, for I saw a lot of diversity. From black to white, to brown people I saw and I meet. I only saw white people on TV who were another ethic than me. During kinder I learned to read, count, and learn a new language…
The year I turned six, my mom decided to migrate to Mexico. However, she was not able bring my one year old sister along. While my little sister stayed with my grandparents, my mom and I flied out to Mexico. I still remember the feeling in my stomach the moment I stepped out of that airport. I was an ocean away from my hometown. My first day of school was chaos. Everyone in the school was speaking in Spanish. I did not understand the customs and mannerisms. It was difficult to not feel as an outcast. The most complicated part was expressing my feelings, and my needs to the teachers. I lived in Mexico, Tijuana for six years, after becoming adapted to the environment, my mom came home one day and told me that we are moving to the United States.…
The day I found out I would be moving from Roseville to Alpena was probably the worst day of my life. I remember the day I found out about the move. Not only was I really upset because I would be moving away from my friends and family, but I was really scared. We were moving to the middle of nowhere, where I knew not a single person. I would be going into my 6th grade year in the fall, my first year of middle school. My brother and I did everything we could to try to sabotage the move, but sadly our plans failed. Nothing could stop this from happening. Everything I knew… was about to change.…
I was kinda sad that I was leaving friends and families behind but my parents told me that I could have more opportunities in Life and to become successful.…
Eventually the day came, I was getting ready to come to the U.S.A but I didn't wanted to leave. My plane ticket and all the other things were already paid for so there was no going back. It was so hard saying goodbye to my family as well to my country, but even if I cried, I couldn't do anything about it. Ones I was in the sky looking down to my country, crying like a little baby, I fall more in love with it, because from up top I could see my whole country. When I was…
There I was living a good life in Nashville, Tennessee. I was very comfortable in the current state that I was in. I was just a young boy during the summer before I would head into the 4th grade. Summer was going amazing with many memories. But then I got told the news that would change the life of me and my family forever.…
I remember the exact feeling I experienced when my mom told me we were moving to America. I felt as if time had stopped. I did not know what to expect. What will it be like? Will I able to adjust to the pace of life? Will I make friends? Questions which plagued me; but no one had the definitive answers. I lived in Vietnam for the first eleven years of my life. The moment I move to America, my whole world changed. America is my greatest adventure and opportunity. Having never traveled to a foreign country before, I was intrigued by the culture, the people and the country itself. Moving to America when I was eleven, the cultural lifestyle and experience I faced along the way, how I adapt to the journey are what shaped me into the person that I am today. Coming to America really opens my eyes to the world around me. It is such a phenomenal experience to be able to live and adapt between two cultures. Even though I deeply emerge myself into the American’s culture. Vietnam will always be close to my heart.…
In second grade my parents approached me with the information that my dad would be enlisting in the military. They also informed me that we would be moving 16 hours away to a barrier island called Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia. As a small second grader my first thought was that we would be leaving all the people we loved behind which included my grandparents, cousins, close family, best friends, and animals. At first I thought maybe my mom would let me stay and live with my grandparents, but shortly found out that a second grader had no say in where they lived and who with. So we packed our bags, survived the goodbye hugs and painful 16 hour car drive.…
Moving was one of the hardest obstacles I have overcome in my life, but it shaped the person that I am today. It was hard to adjust to the new people, curriculum, house, church, state, and programs I was involved with. My whole world was flipped upside-down. I was terrified because I lost everything I had ever known, and this made it extremely hard to move on from the old and embrace all of the new aspects of my life.…
It was my first time moving away from all my friends and family. I was terrified of change. Yet, my family supported me and I made the commitment to be my best self. . With the support of my family, I committed to making the best of moving to a new country. When I first arrived, we lived in Washington Heights. There, I felt at home, the environment reminded me of living in the Dominican Republic. It was very lively, from Bachata and Merengue music being blasted in the bodegas and apartments.…
Towards the middle of my tenth grade year in high school I learned of the decision my family had made that we were moving that upcoming summer. At first I was very excited, anxious to leave my hometown and start fresh. However, as the moving date came closer, I became more and more anxious, realizing everything I was leaving behind. Up until that point, having been born and…
When my family moved back to Ohio I felt like my world was collapsing in on me. I was 3 years old when we moved to Michigan, so everything that I really knew and remembered was in Michigan. My house, my friends, school, parks… everything. I was seven years old when I was told that everything that I knew was going to change in less than a month. That’s a big change for someone of that age.…