Personal Narrative Essay: Moving To A New Place

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Imagine you are a little kid on a dairy farm able to go and play with the slippery, slimy worms that are in the fields as the plow goes by, then go play with a cute baby calf that you're trying to name but can’t figure out what you want to call it when you're supposed to be doing chores. Those were the big problems I was faced with when I was a youngster, but my happy days were coming to an end when my mom and dad decided to get out of the farming. So they sold the cows, some of the equipment and took some of the draft horses to our new place in Dakota School District, when I was going into the 2nd grade.
Moving off the place that all I ever knew as home was upsetting for me because I would not be able to go explore in the horse pasture and find something interesting to play with or talk to all the people that would come to the farm to help or do there job like the Milkman. Though there is more to farming than what I did I
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I started school that fall and didn’t like school at all and I was struggling with school so unacceptable that I almost didn’t get out of the second grade, but made it out and before I was even able to try to enjoy my summer. My mother, Who knew I missed having the milk cows and the farm, came up with the idea to made a deal with me that if I went to Sylvan, which is a tutoring center, three days a week for the whole summer she would get me two dairy goats and if I kept my grades good otherwise she would sell them. So I agreed to the deal after I tried to get a cow instead but she would not agree to it. I went to the place of torture all summer long but at the end of the summer my mother held up on her deal as I did mind and got me two dairy goats. But going to Sylvan didn’t stop that summer and went on for what seemed like a lifetime but was only 18 months

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