Personal Narrative: Moving To Corpus

“The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you’re just another part of it.” This quote Brenna Yovanoff relates to me especially after I hit the age of two years old. My family decided to move to Corpus Christi, Texas; which is where I did most of my growing up. As I was beginning to mature and take some understanding of my surroundings, I immediately notice that Corpus Christi was the smallest town and there wasn’t much to do. As the years went by, Corpus started growing along with me.
Now 15 years later, I notice how fast things change around me and how fast time passes. Three years ago, there was no Veterans Memorial High School, where …show more content…
With Veterans Memorial High School opening up towards the beginning of my sophomore year; it put multiple kids from different background together into one school. In the origination of the school, it was quite difficult to put aside the previous student body loyalties, biases, and come together to create something worth lasting which has never happened before. I saw this task at hand and I decided I wanted to take part in uniting this school. I would play a part in creating a future for the next generations that have come and yet to come. Bringing people together and creating a sense of unity in such a divided world plays off when I look back and see how hard I worked in the making of that community.
Noticing that I got along nicely with other people I pushed myself to join all the clubs and groups that I could. Some of the clubs that helped me create unity in the school body was student council. I was and currently am on the executive position and work on putting together the pep rallies and spreading school spirit with creating spirit days, planning the games, and deciding on the themes of the