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Friday, September 19, 2008
We're moving?!!
Moving is often exciting. But sometimes it can be challenging, especially for youth & teens that are leaving schools and friends that are comfortable for them. Share positive or negative experiences you've had with moving.
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I moved a lot when I was growing up - before third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, eight grade, and ninth grade. It wasn't a big deal when I was younger but as a teenager, it was much more difficult. Especially since we moved to a very small town when I was in the ninth grade and everyone had known everyone else forever. There were only a few new kids in the school and we remained new kids for years. I did make some good friends though and we're having our huge "over 30th" reunion next summer! Should be fun :-)
Moving can be hard especially if you don't want too. I remember when i had to move high schools. I hated the idea i tried everything i could to stay at the same high school but still couldn't. I went to the new high school with a bad attitude. however, towards the end i liked the school and turned out things were better there than my old school.
I moved in my freshman high school year. i was sad that i was moving and scared because i didn't know if i was going to make friends or how long it will take. But the first day i started i met great people who are my friends still.But i lost touch with my other friends.
Moving is fun and scary at the same time. It`s fun because you`re being exposed to new surroundings and you get to start fresh. At the same time it can be scary because you`re stepping into someone else`s territory and sometimes you can offend them unintentionally. Also, being so new to the environment, it is definitely easy to get lost. With that being said, I think moving is more fun than scary.
I have moved many times in my life, and I’ve had some good experiences and some bad. I first moved to Fontana from living with my grandparents in La in the 7th grade, I left all my close friends I grew up with since kindergarten and had moved in the late ending of the school year in Fontana, so making friends wasn’t that easy. I then had to move again my sophomore year in high school when my family lost our house due to foreclosure. Luckily we found a house to rent but it was in Pinon Hills up in the San Bernardino Mountains, and our neighbors that we’d grown really close to in Fontana let us use their address in order for us to stay in our schools. The daily commute was horrible and we spent most of our day in the car. The next year after that we decided to move back down to Fontana. The long rides were getting in the way of our lives and gas was too much. We then moved to the middle of Fontana and still continued to attend our schools; we lived there for about a year until the house owners we were renting from decided to sell their house. We moved from there about a month or two after I graduated high school. Then we finally decided to rent an apartment were we now live, we enjoy our little house and are very proud that after all we went through we are still a strong family.
I have never moved so I don't know if it would be challenging or not.I do think if i were to move around when i was in grade school it would have been hard and not so easy to make friends. I've been used to seeing the same people since about kindergarden, but maybe that's why I can't wait to get out of this little town!
Moving is something many people have difficulty with and after some time grow to enjoy the change of environment. This is what I hear of course. I know many friends that move and I still keep in touch wit them because it's nice to hear good stories about where they live. I haven't moved in a while but I wish I did. I know i'm comfortable living where I do now, but traveling and experiencing new places is something I'd rather do.
Moving is always hard specially when you have live there your entire life. But sometimes it can be good. New changes are nice. But in a teenager it is always harder because all his or her friends and memories are there.
I do relate to this topic very much so. I can honestly say moving has made a effect on me. We moved at the end of my sophomore year in high school. I had to endure myself in a new setting. I was very upset and saddened. I was very comfortable with with my classmates and school faculty before hand. I was involved in school sports and programs. I was known by many and was looking forward to the upcoming years left of school but then the move occurred. Everything i had established was thrown away. I would have to start over. It was very difficult. I was the complete opposite when attended my new school. Groups and friends were established within the past couple years. It was difficult for me to make friends with open arms. I was to myself, was not involved in nothing. It was a downfall for me. I truly believe if i would of stayed with my first campus, i would of been better off and more opportunities would of came my way. I can safely say my last 2 years left of high school was nothing to remember, only thing good from it at the end of the day was receiving my diploma.
I've only moved once my entire life. From Los Angeles to Fontana. I was around 5 or 6. We used to live in an apartment and I remember being super happy we were moving because I would get my own room and I was going to be living in a house and that I could run around without getting in trouble because we didn't live with anybody else. I just didn't like that I had to leave my friends. My mom would tell me that we would come back and visit but we never did, but other than that moving was a good experience for me. Last year during high school my parents were planning on moving to Reno, Nevada because my dad had been offered a job there. I was so mad because Reno is a very ugly place to live in compared to here and i really didn't want to move in the middle of my senior year. If we had moved I would have taken that as a really negative experience and I would have probably hated my parents.
I moved when i was a teenager from the middle east to Amreican and had to leave all my freinds that i had since kindergarden and leave all my family and come here to study. i came here with english as my second language and with british accent. it was not easy to leave everything behind and start a new life in a new county with new people and new freinds. learning englsih wasnt easy at all!! it was difficult to understand what people were saying. and understanding the american culture was very difficult due to the variety of cutlure that are here. however, today i would say im very happy that i moved and got to meet new people and learned alot about other cultures and about life in general. anybody can be whatever they want here, and they will not be judged they way they would be in other countries. i thank god for me moving and coming here because if i didnt come here i would be like any ordinary person in my country and i know im living many people dream at this point.
In my entire life,i have moved countless time, not to mention to another different country. for me, moving is exciting and tiring at the same time,exciting is because i'll be living in a different neighborhood and environment.tiring is obviously because the lifting and running up and down the moving truck. but at the end of the day,I'm not a fan of moving,but i'll do it or help someone to do it because ...well,you have to .
I grew up in Pomona and loved everything about it. My family was all my neighbors and I was surrounded by good friends. When my father told me we were moving to rancho I was so upset and hurt and I just couldn’t believe it, I felt as though my world was turned upside down. To my very one disbelief I ended up doing great things here. I love every bit of this town. I have met so many great people I thank god for this great opportunity to just improve in life.
well its hard becouse you leave all your life behind expesially if your moving far away. i moved alot when i was yong which affected me in school n other areas as well.
Because the boundaries were constantly changing, I was made to move from one school to the next. i had to leave my friends and start all over at another school. I felt awkward but after a few weeks starting over turned out better for me. I made other friends that were a lot like me and had the same taste in music. However, the stay didn't last very long. thanks to the boundary changes I was made to return to the school I had last come from. Going back was weird. I realized leaving that school was better for me than I had originally thought.
Charles said........ Positive things about moving is that you could be moving from a bad neighborhood to a good one. It can also be a new start for some and a way to meet new people. The negatives of moving are moving away from friends you are close with, and for some, its hard to make new friends in new schools. Everything also feels so alien when you move.
I was a good Christian boy all through Jr. High, but i decided to beg my parents to let me go to a big public school because i wanted to get a little taste of what is really out there. Little did i know this was the worst decision of my life. When i got to the public school my life as i knew it crumbled, i got into so many bad things and eventually my parents finally made me learn my lesson and put me back in a Christian school. Moving from comfort to different, isn't always good.
In my own experince I have moved and I been to 4diffternt high schools...it was not easy making new friends and having to start all over again ...not only that but it so hard to catch up with the work in your classes...the one I have liked is making new friends and getting along with people...so there is always a negative and positive side to
I didnt really move alot when i was little... i moved schools once and that was when i was in 5th grade i hated it. I went from a place where i was so comfortable at to a new city called upland.. i had hated it i didnt have friends and i was shy.. it was many times where i had cried... but it was a positive side i jad moved to a better enviroment and bout time tje new year had started i had gained friends people i was happy to call my friends.. if i wud have sgayed in my old city i think i wud have been a bad student once i went to highschool because of the environment
Growing up my family use to move around a lot. If we moved to a new city we would only last the most 2-3 years. I remember that every time my parents would tell me that we were moving yet again I would get very upset because I had finally began to get use to my new environment and made new friends, whom I didn't want to leave behind thinking they would forget me. It was always hard moving around but good things did come out from it, one good thing was that I was able to make new friends every time I moved. I was also able to explore new cities which I hadn't seen before and try different things. I did however, wish that we could of stayed in place and finally settle down, but meeting new people and making lots of friends made it not so bad after all.
It is good to meet new people and start a new life in a new environment that I have never been before, personally i like to move a lot and i am used to moving.
Personally i haven't move many times i had been in the same place for long time since i remember but for other moving means, new friends,new neighborhood, new people, etc. i think is cool but at the same time is not good because your hole life changes and you don't know what place are you going or if there is bad people or not but i don't like to move a lot.
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I moved a lot when I was growing up - before third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, eight grade, and ninth grade. It wasn't a big deal when I was younger but as a teenager, it was much more difficult. Especially since we moved to a very small town when I was in the ninth grade and everyone had known everyone else forever. There were only a few new kids in the school and we remained new kids for years. I did make some good friends though and we're having our huge "over 30th" reunion next summer! Should be fun :-)
Moving can be hard especially if you don't want too. I remember when i had to move high schools. I hated the idea i tried everything i could to stay at the same high school but still couldn't. I went to the new high school with a bad attitude. however, towards the end i liked the school and turned out things were better there than my old school.
right now, i definately could use a new beginning, a change of scenery. So sometimes, moving can be a great thing if your open to the adventure.
I moved in my freshman high school year. i was sad that i was moving and scared because i didn't know if i was going to make friends or how long it will take. But the first day i started i met great people who are my friends still.But i lost touch with my other friends.
Moving is fun and scary at the same time. It`s fun because you`re being exposed to new surroundings and you get to start fresh. At the same time it can be scary because you`re stepping into someone else`s territory and sometimes you can offend them unintentionally. Also, being so new to the environment, it is definitely easy to get lost. With that being said, I think moving is more fun than scary.
I have moved many times in my life, and I’ve had some good experiences and some bad. I first moved to Fontana from living with my grandparents in La in the 7th grade, I left all my close friends I grew up with since kindergarten and had moved in the late ending of the school year in Fontana, so making friends wasn’t that easy. I then had to move again my sophomore year in high school when my family lost our house due to foreclosure. Luckily we found a house to rent but it was in Pinon Hills up in the San Bernardino Mountains, and our neighbors that we’d grown really close to in Fontana let us use their address in order for us to stay in our schools. The daily commute was horrible and we spent most of our day in the car. The next year after that we decided to move back down to Fontana. The long rides were getting in the way of our lives and gas was too much. We then moved to the middle of Fontana and still continued to attend our schools; we lived there for about a year until the house owners we were renting from decided to sell their house. We moved from there about a month or two after I graduated high school. Then we finally decided to rent an apartment were we now live, we enjoy our little house and are very proud that after all we went through we are still a strong family.
I have never moved so I don't know if it would be challenging or not.I do think if i were to move around when i was in grade school it would have been hard and not so easy to make friends. I've been used to seeing the same people since about kindergarden, but maybe that's why I can't wait to get out of this little town!
Moving is something many people have difficulty with and after some time grow to enjoy the change of environment. This is what I hear of course. I know many friends that move and I still keep in touch wit them because it's nice to hear good stories about where they live. I haven't moved in a while but I wish I did. I know i'm comfortable living where I do now, but traveling and experiencing new places is something I'd rather do.
Moving is always hard specially when you have live there your entire life. But sometimes it can be good. New changes are nice. But in a teenager it is always harder because all his or her friends and memories are there.
I do relate to this topic very much so. I can honestly say moving has made a effect on me. We moved at the end of my sophomore year in high school. I had to endure myself in a new setting. I was very upset and saddened. I was very comfortable with with my classmates and school faculty before hand. I was involved in school sports and programs. I was known by many and was looking forward to the upcoming years left of school but then the move occurred. Everything i had established was thrown away. I would have to start over. It was very difficult. I was the complete opposite when attended my new school. Groups and friends were established within the past couple years. It was difficult for me to make friends with open arms. I was to myself, was not involved in nothing. It was a downfall for me. I truly believe if i would of stayed with my first campus, i would of been better off and more opportunities would of came my way. I can safely say my last 2 years left of high school was nothing to remember, only thing good from it at the end of the day was receiving my diploma.
I've only moved once my entire life. From Los Angeles to Fontana. I was around 5 or 6. We used to live in an apartment and I remember being super happy we were moving because I would get my own room and I was going to be living in a house and that I could run around without getting in trouble because we didn't live with anybody else. I just didn't like that I had to leave my friends. My mom would tell me that we would come back and visit but we never did, but other than that moving was a good experience for me. Last year during high school my parents were planning on moving to Reno, Nevada because my dad had been offered a job there. I was so mad because Reno is a very ugly place to live in compared to here and i really didn't want to move in the middle of my senior year. If we had moved I would have taken that as a really negative experience and I would have probably hated my parents.
I moved when i was a teenager from the middle east to Amreican and had to leave all my freinds that i had since kindergarden and leave all my family and come here to study. i came here with english as my second language and with british accent. it was not easy to leave everything behind and start a new life in a new county with new people and new freinds. learning englsih wasnt easy at all!! it was difficult to understand what people were saying. and understanding the american culture was very difficult due to the variety of cutlure that are here. however, today i would say im very happy that i moved and got to meet new people and learned alot about other cultures and about life in general. anybody can be whatever they want here, and they will not be judged they way they would be in other countries. i thank god for me moving and coming here because if i didnt come here i would be like any ordinary person in my country and i know im living many people dream at this point.
In my entire life,i have moved countless time, not to mention to another different country. for me, moving is exciting and tiring at the same time,exciting is because i'll be living in a different neighborhood and environment.tiring is obviously because the lifting and running up and down the moving truck. but at the end of the day,I'm not a fan of moving,but i'll do it or help someone to do it because ...well,you have to .
I grew up in Pomona and loved everything about it. My family was all my neighbors and I was surrounded by good friends. When my father told me we were moving to rancho I was so upset and hurt and I just couldn’t believe it, I felt as though my world was turned upside down. To my very one disbelief I ended up doing great things here. I love every bit of this town. I have met so many great people I thank god for this great opportunity to just improve in life.
well its hard becouse you leave all your life behind expesially if your moving far away. i moved alot when i was yong which affected me in school n other areas as well.
Because the boundaries were constantly changing, I was made to move from one school to the next. i had to leave my friends and start all over at another school. I felt awkward but after a few weeks starting over turned out better for me. I made other friends that were a lot like me and had the same taste in music. However, the stay didn't last very long. thanks to the boundary changes I was made to return to the school I had last come from. Going back was weird. I realized leaving that school was better for me than I had originally thought.
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Charles said........
Positive things about moving is that you could be moving from a bad neighborhood to a good one. It can also be a new start for some and a way to meet new people. The negatives of moving are moving away from friends you are close with, and for some, its hard to make new friends in new schools. Everything also feels so alien when you move.
I was a good Christian boy all through Jr. High, but i decided to beg my parents to let me go to a big public school because i wanted to get a little taste of what is really out there. Little did i know this was the worst decision of my life. When i got to the public school my life as i knew it crumbled, i got into so many bad things and eventually my parents finally made me learn my lesson and put me back in a Christian school. Moving from comfort to different, isn't always good.
In my own experince I have moved and I been to 4diffternt high schools...it was not easy making new friends and having to start all over again ...not only that but it so hard to catch up with the work in your classes...the one I have liked is making new friends and getting along with people...so there is always a negative and positive side to
I didnt really move alot when i was little... i moved schools once and that was when i was in 5th grade i hated it. I went from a place where i was so comfortable at to a new city called upland.. i had hated it i didnt have friends and i was shy.. it was many times where i had cried... but it was a positive side i jad moved to a better enviroment and bout time tje new year had started i had gained friends people i was happy to call my friends.. if i wud have sgayed in my old city i think i wud have been a bad student once i went to highschool because of the environment
Growing up my family use to move around a lot. If we moved to a new city we would only last the most 2-3 years. I remember that every time my parents would tell me that we were moving yet again I would get very upset because I had finally began to get use to my new environment and made new friends, whom I didn't want to leave behind thinking they would forget me. It was always hard moving around but good things did come out from it, one good thing was that I was able to make new friends every time I moved. I was also able to explore new cities which I hadn't seen before and try different things. I did however, wish that we could of stayed in place and finally settle down, but meeting new people and making lots of friends made it not so bad after all.
It is good to meet new people and start a new life in a new environment that I have never been before, personally i like to move a lot and i am used to moving.
Personally i haven't move many times i had been in the same place for long time since i remember but for other moving means, new friends,new neighborhood, new people, etc. i think is cool but at the same time is not good because your hole life changes and you don't know what place are you going or if there is bad people or not but i don't like to move a lot.
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