Military Brat Essay

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I’m a military brat. Most people think that living the military life is everything happy, when in reality it’s not. It’s not horrible, but you have to get used to not getting too attached to people. The reason is because many people come and go. You could know someone for one year and then they have to move, and you feel like you’ve known them for five years. Moving is the worst part about being a military brat. I was born in a small town, Sicily in Italy. After a few years, my family and I moved to Arizona. It was pretty convenient because my grandma lived there so we could visit here more often. Then we moved to Germany in 2009, practically on the other side of the world. School was chaotic, everybody knew everybody and I knew no one. However, after a couple of months that all changed. Middle …show more content…

I was hoping to move to Alaska or Arizona, but instead we got Arkansas. I wasn’t excited about it but, it was some place different. I moved around the end of July. It was really hard to move and leave my friends, but we still keep in contact every now and then. When I came to Arkansas it was really different. It felt weird to be in the States after seven years. There were new things that I had never seen or even heard of. I was anxious about starting school. Getting used to going to a small school on base in Germany was extremely different from going to public school. When the first day of school rolled around, I was really nervous. I was thinking of the worst things that could happen to me, causing me to make a complete fool of myself for the rest of the 4 years I possibly had to spend at this school. I was so anxious and nervous that I was shaking when I walked into the cafeteria. I didn’t know anybody, I felt like how I felt back in second grade when I moved to Germany. I learned that all it takes is a simple hello and or a hey and you could possibly be friends or best friends with that

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