The entire school had maybe one hundred people. There were only four girls in my entire grade and twenty kids total. Switching from a school that small to a public school with one hundred people just in my grade was a huge adjustment. It was incredibly intimidating at first, however,
Last year I moved from Guttenberg to Manchester, which moved me from Clayton Ridge to West Delaware High School. The whole move was a speedy process. Before we moved I only knew 3 people that attended West Delaware and out of those people, none of them are my age. I was upset with my parents for putting me in the position of leaving all my friends that I had finally gotten used to, to move somewhere where I didn’t know anybody. A rush of emotions were coming onto me; fear of losing friends, anger and resentment towards my family for not telling me until they had already bought the house, but also excitement because I would be starting all over again and meeting new people.
Returning to college has been an exciting and terrifying decision for me. My husband has encouraged me for 1-2 years, but my fear of failure overwhelmed me and kept me from pursuing my Bachelor’s Degree. I wasn’t even sure what I wanted to pursue. I’m now on this journey and ready for whatever it is that God has planned for me. I have worked hard encouraged my three kids as they transitioned their way through elementary school through middle school and on to high school and graduation.
Something such as returning back to school was long gone and in my past goals. After a couple of years I never thought I would end up going back to school since everything that I wanted was going good and according to plan. However sometimes we are faced with tough situations where we must find other resources in order to improve and better ourselves. Going back to school was one of the most important and wise decisions that I have ever made. Finding well-qualified candidates for a job or career nowadays is a challenge, especially in the field that I am currently in; law enforcement.
I had to leave my childhood behind and take on new roles and responsibilities. I leave behind the help and having someone to fall back on. I leave my future to me. I took all the important information that my parents and adults I looked up to gave to me. I remembered all the experiences I was put through, while watching them grow up while having me.
Do you ever stop and think about what the other person is feeling after an argument or when you tell them something life changing? My parents definitely didn't know what was going on in my mind. I was shocked when I heard my parents say that we were moving from Michigan; my home town, the state I was raised in and have great memories from to California, a strange and unknown place populated with strange people. I felt as if my little world had turned upside down and I would be the one to deal with it. The people responsible for this move would be my parents and my older brother.
For the first time in forever I didn’t feel like an outcast. Few weeks down the line, I could not be myself around them, so I started feeling like an outsider again. I suppressed my feelings, and just went along with them. When school was finally over, my parents told me that we were moving back to the Philippine, but my mom was going to stay in America to look for a stable job. Suppression played a big role in my life.
I started my first high school life in Albuquerque, we didn 't settled in a normal passe cause the move was so sudden, even after I was starting to settle in with the high school, but we had to move to Colorado due to some family situation, and so we moved to a small and little interesting town of Leadville once known for its mining back in the days of the gold rush in Colorado. That year didn 't really last very long until my family gather enough money to move back to New Mexico to start my sophomore year in a Bloomfield high school; Because of all the moving around making my high school experience harder to grasp until it took me until my Junior year that I get the gist of what to do in high school. As time pass by in high school, I 've gained a lot more experience with people and knowledge of different types of school of how they work and it was all due to the moving around to place to place for a whole year. Even living in New Mexico I had a clearer picture of my origins and how I could use that knowledge of my future.
In high school, we switched classes and I was not used to having new people in every single class. Freshman year through junior year I was just going through the motions. I would go to my
Moving to a different state during your high school years is not always easy. Different environment, different customs and different people. I moved from Miami to Houston in the middle of the 1st Semester of my freshman year. We moved to Houston due to financial issues. My sister told my father of the job opportunities in Houston, convincing him to move.
I walked into a school where everybody had a group or at least a friend and I had nothing. As I walk into class my eyes scan the room for a place to sit and all the could see was everyone talking to each other. This made me realize that I had to completely start over. I had to meet new friends and learn different learning habits.
August 14th, the day when it really hit me that I would be moving into college in one week. Up until that point I was really really excited! Although I was still excited the nerves started to kick in, I felt that I was not prepared to start a whole new chapter of my life and that there was still so many things that I needed to do, so honestly I started to panic a little bit, but that is just between me and you, no one else knew that I was stressing so bad. The Monday before move in day comes and now I realize that I seriously need to start getting ready, so finally I start packing everything in my room to make sure that I do not forget anything, but at the same time I have no clue what to pack seeing as this is my first time ever packing for college. The day finally gets here, move in day, all at the same time I am nervous, excited, sad and happy.
I woke up to the sound of my alarm blasting in my ear. When, I look at the time it read 5:35 a.m. I tried to turn it off but it would stop so I chucked it across the room. It broke. Great, now that adds to my collection of perfume bottles.
Bumping into people while looking down and asking multiple people for direction even though I was shy. Giving five minutes after each class to get to the other, walking into a classroom on my first day people staring and observing. Moving to a different town is not about the new house, it is about adapting to a new environment. Moving away from family and friends can be a tough thing to do. I had to adjust to leaving my friends and family that I loved and seen almost every day.
Kindergarten to 8th grade I attended a private school called Holy Family Catholic School. The school was very small along with classes, teachers extremely strict and hallways always quiet, the totally opposite from Dr. Henry A. Wise. My first day of high school I was very nervous I was not used to big classes, endless amount of students in the halls and the loud ruckus. This was an educational challenge for me because it was a totally different learning environment for me that i had to get used to quickly. My studying habits also challenged me through high school because test and quizzes were given out frequently and if you didn't know how to study you probably wouldn’t get a good grade.
