Personal Narrative: Change In My School

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Change can happen at any time. Back in second grade I changed quite a bit. I was living in Black Hawk, and our house was only eight miles from the school my brothers, sister, and I went to. I was a very talkative student and always answered the teacher’s questions. I even got my homework in all the time and never got into trouble. At home we talked with most of our neighborhood and even helped some build a mini BMX track. Because I was in elementary I was in the only school building in Black Hawk.
In this school they had kindergarten through fifth grade in the same building.
Because of this I’ve been at the same school for two and a half years. There were at most 350 kids in this school so it wasn’t a big school. Everybody in my grade was pretty much friends with everyone else in the grade so we all got along. One day a new family moved onto our street and I found out after talking with them at the bus stop that their daughter was in my class. So I decided to show her around the school and we ended up being best friends. We always hung out after school, playing with her brothers and my brothers. By next week my routine was the exact same thing from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. On weekdays it was school, play, dinner, homework, bed in that order. On weekends we just played around. That was
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There were so many different rules and new faces that I was pretty nervous about going to the new school. I was as nervous as the first time I had to write a big essay. It probably didn’t help this was the first time I changed schools because of moving. Now instead of being the usual talkative kid, I’m very quiet and I don’t say much. Even now I’ve only made at most eight friends. But the only time I really talked after moving was when we did partner assignments or when the teacher calls on me to answer a question. Out of all the people in my grade I only talk to five of them unless I’m in a

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