The middle school phase is a crucial stage in everyone 's life. It’s a transition between child and young adult. Everything changes during this time, but for me this was even more true. The summer between my seventh grade school year and my eighth grade school year I moved from Lubbock, Texas to Independence, Missouri. This has been undoubtedly the biggest change I’ve ever experienced and has had an enormous effect on me and who I am today.
Lubbock, Texas is a great place to grow up in with a lot of great people. With this being said, it is not necessarily the most beautiful place in the world. It’s completely flat. There is no such thing as a hill in Lubbock, unless you wanted to count anthills on the sidewalks. The climate is very warm, …show more content…
Fortunately, we all conveniently lived biking distance from each other. So we all did just about everything together, we even played on the same basketball, baseball, and football teams growing up. And although I made other friends throughout my years in Lubbock, I always gravitated to my core group. Even though we were constantly getting into trouble in and out of school, I could always count on every single one of them. It was this way all the way up until my seventh grade year. My parents sat me down and let me know that there was a job opportunity for my dad in the Kansas City area and that there was a small possibility we might move there within the next couple of years. It wasn’t but a few more months when my parents told me we were moving for certain, and it was going to be that coming summer. I couldn’t believe it. The only place I’d ever known for thirteen years and now we were picking up and leaving. Part of me hurt deeply because I didn’t want to leave my friends, but another part of me sort of looked forward to the new. New house, new school, new people, new places. I liked change every now and then. Although I was torn, I accepted my parents decision and didn’t try to change their
Lubbock, Texas is a great place to grow up in with a lot of great people. With this being said, it is not necessarily the most beautiful place in the world. It’s completely flat. There is no such thing as a hill in Lubbock, unless you wanted to count anthills on the sidewalks. The climate is very warm, …show more content…
Fortunately, we all conveniently lived biking distance from each other. So we all did just about everything together, we even played on the same basketball, baseball, and football teams growing up. And although I made other friends throughout my years in Lubbock, I always gravitated to my core group. Even though we were constantly getting into trouble in and out of school, I could always count on every single one of them. It was this way all the way up until my seventh grade year. My parents sat me down and let me know that there was a job opportunity for my dad in the Kansas City area and that there was a small possibility we might move there within the next couple of years. It wasn’t but a few more months when my parents told me we were moving for certain, and it was going to be that coming summer. I couldn’t believe it. The only place I’d ever known for thirteen years and now we were picking up and leaving. Part of me hurt deeply because I didn’t want to leave my friends, but another part of me sort of looked forward to the new. New house, new school, new people, new places. I liked change every now and then. Although I was torn, I accepted my parents decision and didn’t try to change their