Personal Narrative: Moving To A Kid

Old man Martin had a farm……. And another one……………..oh and another one…..aaaand another one.
Twelve houses, eleven bedrooms, thirteen moving trucks, hundreds of boxes, eight schools, twelve uniforms and forty seven teachers.
How many of you have moved house or maybe even just moved rooms? How many schools have you been to? All of you would have at least been to two.
The concept of change for many is quite frightening, for some exciting, but for me it’s something that has been quite a regular thing while I was growing up. I’m not talking about my body or changing your sheets I’m talking about the changes that to a kid can seem quite drastic, a big deal, and life changing. It is said that the average person will move at least three or four times in their life, now eighteen I have practically moved three times that, to me this is how my life is less ordinary.
The journey began before I was even thought of a young couple grew a love for dairy farming. Why dairy farming right? All the blood, sweat and tears standing behind cows bums for two hours just to be rewarded with the lousy Fonterra pay out. At first he was a young piglet in …show more content…
For those of you who went to st Mary’s you will understand the fear that Sister Julian brought to even the most daring of us all with her special grass and special cleaning car detentions. St Mary’s was to be the second of the four primary schools I went to, moving another house but staying at the same school. Researchers say that by moving house, but being able to keep some parts of daily routine the same can lessen the effects on a child at this time, and I would agree. I would also say that at the age of five or younger the move does not play quite as much as an effect on your life as five year olds generally make friends quite fast and I know that I was more excited about decorating my new bedroom that anything