Essay About Moving To America

At fourteen I moved back to Minnesota hoping it would be my last move for a while. I have lived in six different communities, including this one. At two years old I lived in Somalia, where I was born after that I moved to Egypt where I lived there for two years in half. Then me and my mom made the move to America where I lived in Richmond, Virginia for two years in half. We made another transition to another community living in Minneapolis, Minnesota where I moved from different neighborhoods at the end I lived there for two years. My moving did not end there my next move was Green Bay, Wisconsin where I lived there for two years in half by the way, did not become a Packers fan in those two years in half. My final move was moving back to Minnesota. At age sixteen for being able encounter different communities shaped the person I am right now. Every community that i have lived in left some kind identity in me.

I feel this way because I never lived that long where I was born. I remember moving out of Somalia when i was two; moving to Egypt for two years. I was never able to find my identity in those two countries. When I moved to America when i was five and living here for eleven years this where I was able to find my identity by learning the language. Even, though in that eleven years I did not live in one certain place I lived in 3 different states the span of that eleven years. With me living in three different states I was able to find a new me each time I moved. But at the same time living in Somalia and Egypt places that I will always call home those places left a mark on me even though I don't remember much. In the essay “Home at Last” DinawwMengestuu Moved to Brooklyn hoping he would not make another move and hoping he would call Brooklyn his home Although he moved different places he was not sure those places would become