Personal Narrative: Moving To Bismarck

Have you ever felt at home in a city, like you are supposed to be there it was your destiny to grow up there and to go to school there? I felt that way in Sartell, Minnesota, until I moved. My reaction was horrific, I didn't feel like I'd be at home there, but I met a lot of nice people. Moving to Bismarck has affected me for several reasons but I am preserving. Telling my siblings and I was where all of the chaos started. It was in a hotel room in Rochester, Minnesota, beautiful place if you ask me. We were all hyped up because my sister and I won 1st place in kick and jazz at a dance competition. Then my parents asked us to sit down on the bed, they said they needed to tell us something important, I was nervous about what it was going to be about. My mind was filling up with thoughts was it about jobs, dance, school, our house, family, friends, my mind couldn't take it. Once I heard the words “ We’re moving to Bismarck, North Dakota” from my parent’s …show more content…
The next couple days I felt down and didn't want to do anything. I was going in 4th grade I didn't know a lot but I knew that I didn't want to move it was the worst idea ever, leaving my best friends felt like leaving family. Bismarck, North Dakota is a big city, so that meant a lot of people. So many people that there was 17 elementary schools that I could've gone to. The worst part was I didn't even know one person, I was the “new kid”. I ended up going to a school called Liberty Elementary School, it was a new school that was being built in the area. Many people from the other schools went there, including me. Some people had best friends who moved with them so they weren't alone, but I was. At lunch, I was silent, no words, just sat there staring off in the distance. I was a shy person then and still kinda today so I couldn't just start talking to someone with them noticing. I felt so alone and so out of