Personal Essay: How Moving Has Changed My Life

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Everyone has that moment in life where you either grow up or drown in the waters of life. Never did I think I would have to grow up so fast, but at the same time I don’t think anyone does.

The biggest part of my life would start in South Beloit illinois, tho up to this point I think I moved about three or four times. There were many reasons why I moved weather it was for more money or just a better place to live. Moving was never fun, but I was very young, so it never really affected me because I was too young to understand how it should affect me. I spent three years in South Beloit and me would say they were not bad times, but also they were not a good time either. My mom was with a man name John and he was a decent man, but not a good one, there were many
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I went to polo for only a few weeks and then I ended up going to my aunt 's house in North Brook and going to high school there, by this time I stopped caring about school and was not in any mood to waste my time in a school where I probably wouldn’t be there for that long so the drive I use to have was gone at this point. At this time my mom and stepdad were scrambling to find a house so that I could finish high school and all our patients were wearing thin so this were very intense for us. We were having no luck at finding a house, so far it’s been about a year and a half and I was about 2 years behind in school, which was not good in any way, but I really didn’t care at the time because I was falling apart inside a little faster every day so school was not on my

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