Personal Narrative: Moving To A New School

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New School

I’ve moved a couple of times and most times I’ve never had to transfer to a new school. Although there did come this one time that I had to switch schools for a certain amount of time and I wasn’t happy about. I didn’t want to start all over again, with gaining friends. Most likely you can say that I needed to move to learn a lesson. In light of the new school it was easy for me to see that I should try to make friends.
Last year I moved to a different city and the area I was in caused me to no longer be able to go to Carencro High. The school that I would now be going to was Ovey Comeaux High, Comeaux was very different from Carencro; there were different policies to follow and there were more kids attending. After a while of

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