Essay About Moving To Australia

When people realize they have to leave everything they have known, loved and cared for twelve thousand miles away from them the impact is so great. Some people think it was easy for me to move from Australia to America, but really it is difficult to forget about. When someone moves from one house to another they don’t usually leave the country where their family, friends and memories are. As for me, in 2011 my family and I traveled to the United States to look for a house to live in. My dad was offered a new job but the catch was that we had to move. This was extremely last minute, we had about four weeks left in Australia before we made the big move. My friends and family were stunned that we were moving away from them. For our last couple of weeks, we spent all of our time meeting up with friends, travelling to different cities to say our goodbyes to our relatives. All of them were shocked by …show more content…
1799 stanford avenue would be the house my family would live in for the next year. I went to Oak Knoll elementary going into the end of third grade year. My first day of school was horrendous, i didn't know anyone and i was too afraid to talk because of my accent, i would spend my lunches in the library and keep my head down during class, until one day in the Library a boy came up to me as he was me on one of the library computers trying to remove the permissions. He introduced himself and told me what was wrong. That was the start of a friendship that would last five years and continue today. We began to walk around the track, i started talking to new people, and would be more engaged during class. I found a liking to technology and music. Today those passions have created who i am. We also try to go back to Australia for as much time as possible to see family and friends. A few months later my dog got out of quarantine and our furniture arrived. It made America feel like home, though my family belongs in