Personal Narrative: Moving Away From North Carolina

Moving here from North Carolina when I was four changed my life completely, I was away from my family who I lived with my whole life, thrown into a school with a bunch of kids who lived here since they were born and told to “make friends.” This changed the next 13 years of my life to something I can never picture not having. The first four years, both my parents had full time jobs and my grandma helped raise me a lot, she taught me so many manners and how to behave, she even ended up living across the street from me for 2 of those years, they were rough for my parents, new baby, just moving, having to find jobs, making friends, and getting food on the table for me. Thats where my amazing family came in, with bringing home cooked meals …show more content…
Once school time came around,I was starting pre-school in the middle of the year and things were scary because I was the new girl who moved here from what seemed like a whole other country at that age, but I had no problem making friends with the girl who is still one of my best friends today, Shelly, she was so nice and welcoming and introduced me to everyone she knew in the school, we were so close even our moms became best friends and even are to this day as well. We stayed friends even though we went to different elementary schools, and she made a new friend in kindergarten, named Sarah, and I made a new friend, Abby, then about 2 months after school started we all four became best friends and have been ever since, and so have all of our moms, I can’t imagine what i would do without those amazing friends I made by moving to Jacksonville and starting my life as a beach girl, There is no other way I could imagine growing up without the amazing friend group we had and still