Personal Narrative: Moving To Oklahoma

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After being in my room almost all day, reading my book, I went to go see what my family was doing. "We're moving!" my parents announced as I entered the room. Moving didn't bother me much, but when I was told we were moving to Oklahoma I was shocked to say the least. I was shocked because I lived in California at the time and I had only ever moved to a different city at most. This time though we were moving to a different state. A state that was about 1,279 miles away!

The day after the announcement I decided to start packing. I knew because we were going such a long distance we wouldn't be able to take everything. So I packed up all my necessity's and a few optional things. After everyone was packed up and ready to go we loaded everything up in the Uhaul and prepared to leave. I was excited to live in a new state but I was also nervous because I would have to learn my way around a whole new place and make new friends. Early in the morning we got in our cars, prepared for the long drive, and headed east.
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Once we got to our room I plopped on one of the beds, I was glad to finally be out of the car. I was exhausted from the drive, it was only thirteen hours but it felt like it had been days! After a good night's rest we continued our drive to Oklahoma. The closer we got we got the more nervous I got. After driving for another twelve hours we arrived in Mustang, Oklahoma at about ten o'clock at night. I knew since we arrived late we would be unpacking all day once we got up and I was NOT looking forward to

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