Personal Narrative: The Move That Changed My Life

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In the spring of 2013, my family and I moved from Muskego, Wisconsin to Greensboro, North Carolina. This move across half the country has forever changed my life. This move has allowed me to meet people I would otherwise have never met, and those of who have had a great influence over me. Leaving behind the place I knew, and all of my friends had saddened me. However, I have been able to keep in touch with my friends through the Internet, so that part wasn’t as bad. The scariest part was getting used to a new state that was in a different part of the country, and has a bigger population. The cultural difference were also something that I needed to adjust to, as well as new living conditions. Besides the cultural difference, there was the difference

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