Moving To Laredo Research Paper

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Charur In my honest opinion, whatever we do or whatever happens to us as a child strongly impacts who we become. For me, I had 3 main events happen in my life in which I strongly believe have impacted my life. The three main events in my life were when I moved to Laredo, TX, when I came out as gay, and the many times I changed schools. The thing I believe affected me the most was moving from Monterrey, NL to Laredo, TX. I was born and raised in Monterrey until I turned 10 and my mother decided to move to Laredo. Since her family was originally from Laredo and she had been living in Monterrey for about 17 years of her life she decided she wanted to be closer to her family. Getting close to August my mother was still not completely packed, so she only sent my brother and I to Laredo to live with my aunt for a while. Moving changed everything in my life, I had to learn a new language, I had to get new friends, and I had to move …show more content…

Every school I attended was ephemeral to me since I was changing so often. When I was younger and living in Monterrey I went to a private school during kindergarten, suddenly we moved houses (still in Monterrey) and we had to change to another private school closer to our new house. Later on, during my 4th grade year in school, I was getting many questions from my peers asking me if I was gay or not and even though I wasn’t being bullied it bothered me because I wasn’t ready to answer that question so I asked my mother to change me to another school. After I begged, she moved me to another school for my 5th grade year, but I was only there for that year because the following year I would be moving to Laredo, TX. At the age of 10 I had already been through 4 schools which I believe taught me how to be social and how to make friends quickly. Changing schools also made me realize that friends aren’t always forever and sometimes you need to let them

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