Did you know one of the hardest things to do as a kid is to move to a new place? More than 6.5 million kids worldwide have experienced moving to a new school. This can majorly impact the academic excellence and the social life of kids, teenagers especially. Well, I myself have moved to many different places as a kid growing up. This includes schools, houses, neighborhoods, states, and families. Although, I have experienced moving to many places I feel it has helped me and will continue to help me throughout my life with meeting new people and experiencing new places. When you're in the moment of the situation it seems to hard to take in, but I knew it would help in the long run. I had to persevere and tell myself day and day that everything would be okay this takes a lot of courage for kids especially younger ones like me.
My act of courage is moving to a new place multiple times in my lifetime thus far. Throughout the places I have moved to I have found that moving to a new neighborhood is the least hard thing
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This was one of the most unfavorable, because I would have to go to this place everyday with kids I didn't know. Sure I would make new friends and eventually know everyone, but at the moment it is so hard to comprehend that. I missed my old friends and school with the teachers I knew. Also every school has its own unique difference with different grading scales and ways of teaching. Another tussle is that I moved to three schools in a single year. Not only does this sound bad, but it was because one day I would be learning a specific topic and then a couple days later I would be learning something completely different. As a matter of fact, I was writing an essay in English class and when I moved schools we reading the book Bridge to Terabithia and I had to switch mindsets really quick. This was one of the most inconvenient part of moving in my opinion and
Moving to a foreign country can be very challenging and can make one experience difficult times. Frustration because of the language barrier, adjusting to a whole new system, and being involved in a different environment are all play a part to fell at home.
During my career as a student, I have moved schools a total of six times. It is a challenge to adapt to a new school and catch up with their curriculum. I personally have experienced this when I moved to Orchard Hills. I was behind in Mathematics, Language Arts, and Social Studies, and being in the honors program only made it that much harder to catch up. In
When I was 7 years, I moved from my home in Australia to the other side of the planet to Dallas Texas. When I heard that I was moving, I felt a wave of despair wipe over me. As Taylor says “I have never in my own memory been outside of Kentucky” (Kingsolver 12). This was the same for me since I had never been
The major effect of moving to a different country, especially moving during my third year of high school, and the most familiar one was missing everything such as family, friends, food, and scenery. Missing my family and friends made it so hard for me that a few days after arriving here; I was already talking to my adopted parents about saving some money for tickets to go back home and stay there until I finished my school. Internet and cellphones weren’t popular then, so my friends and I used to write letters because long distance calls were expensive. Now, we have APPS on our cellp...
Nobody really likes moving. At least I know, I don 't. Moving to another place you have no idea about is tough. When I was 14, my father petitioned my family to move to the United States. Upon hearing that news from my mother, I was devastated. Devastated that I have to leave the place that I grew up, leaving all my friends and family. I have to travel 10,000 miles across the glove to live in a place I have never been to. I have very little idea about United States before moving, I have only seen this place through screen, watched movies such as "High School Musical." From what I have heard and seen life seemed so much easier and happier in the US, but once I stepped out of the plane, I knew it would not be even close to what I have pictured in my mind.
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.
... and I started to realize some of the good effects that moving has had. I now understand that this experience has changed me in positive ways as well. Soon I would have friends in different places in the world that I can visit. I would have many places where I could go and feel like home. Most importantly, I would learn that one can adapt to every town and its people and that friends can be made everywhere. Every place has its conveniences and its problems. Every town has its generous and heartless citizens.
The neighborhood we moved to seemed like a little bigger version of our little neighborhood in the Bronx, so I thought it wouldn 't be too bad, and I even began to think this could be like home. However, like whenever you move somewhere new, you always have to make adjustments, and this was no different. Having to go to a new school in a new city without knowing anyone was scary at first, especially for your first year of middle school, but I made the adjustment rather quickly. The area I was in, was South Philadelphia, it also, like the Bronx, had a small neighborhood feeling to it, so even though at first it seemed like it would be way different, over time it turned out to be pretty good. It had a lot in common with what I was used to in the Bronx, from the markets to the food even to the people. The one thing that really helped me adjust was how small Philly felt compared to New York. For instance, Philly only has two real subway lines, so you could get from one side to the city in another in almost twenty to thirty minutes, you couldn’t even get out of a borough in that amount of time in New York. Another thing is that my family and I would go back up at least once a month at least for the first couple years for Holidays and just to see everyone, so it wasn’t like I was ever very far away. I ended up adjusting pretty good to Philly,
Have you ever felt uncomfortable, scared, nervous, and confused? Well new students feel this way whenever they move to a new school. They have no idea if they'll make friends or if anyone would like them. But with the ambassador program new students will right away feel comfortable in their new surroundings, able to learn a new language and know their way around our school faster than someone who's been there for three years. If we had this program, they just might make a friend right away.
Some of the advantages of living in my neighborhood is the school is not far from home. The school only a fifthteen minutes’ ride to the
It was a beautiful, sunny day in South Florida. I was six years old, playing by the pool with my new puppy. I loved swimming in the pool almost every day after school. I also enjoyed going out on our boat after school or crossing the street and going to the beach. My father came home one evening with some interesting news. Now, I do not remember exactly how I felt about the news at that time, but it seemed like I did not mind that much. He had announced that we were going to move back to my birth country, Belgium. I had been living in Florida for five years and it was basically all I had known so I did not know what to expect. I had to live with my mom at first, and then my sister would join us after she graduated high school and my father finished settling things. I remember most of my earlier childhood by watching some old videos of me playing by the pool and dancing in the living room. It seemed like life could not get any better. However, I was excited and impatient to experience a new lifestyle. I realized that I could start a whole new life, make new friends and learn a new language. Belgium was not as sunny as South Florida but it has much better food and family oriented activities. Geographic mobility can have many positive effects on younger children, such as learning new languages, being more outgoing, and more family oriented; therefore, parents should not be afraid to move around and experience new cultures.
Moving to school Moving to school can become a very emotional experience for a child. The transition can become very stressful resulting in the child becoming very upset and clingy to their parents. The child can be helped by the school and their parents by being taken to their new environment. Spending small amounts of time in a new setting will help the child to become familiar with what’s around them. Parents should also spend some time with their child exploring this new environment, helping the child to form new attachments and bonds with their new teachers.
Have you ever had to move somewhere completely different at a young age? Perhaps somewhere you didn’t even know existed? As a
and that 's when I moved to another school. Moving was more like a new beginning for me