On a hot summer day in Las Vegas, Nevada my parents sat me on the couch. I was concerned, but since I was young, I was unaware of what was happening. My father said, “Life will be changing soon, and we really need you to cooperate.” My parents went on to tell me that we were making plans to move to Texas. Even with my young age I knew that this would be a difficult thing to handle and I knew that I would have to adjust. 
   

This whole process was slow moving as we had to sell the house and then move into an apartment while they job searched. Life went on like this for the next two years; living life in an apartment and the constant anxiety of wondering when we would be moving. Eventually, my parents had saved up enough money to be able to send my dad to Fort Worth to look at houses. At this point I was at the end of my fourth-grade year when my dad called my mother to tell her he had found a “suitable” and “cheap” home as we were still lower on money. That summer me and my sister Tabitha moved down to Fort Worth, Texas. We didn’t have enough money to move my mother down here for a year and that was the most difficult year of my life. In that year not only did I not have my mother but my grandfather had died.  
   

Life looked up when my mom moved down here and got a wonderful job; we began saving up to move immediately. We then started looking at Saginaw homes and found a beautiful little home that had been on the market for about three months. When I moved here and started school life was different, more enjoyable. I found that I made friends easier and fit in. I was able to realize in these moments that change isn’t always bad; that my time in Fort Worth was not going to define the rest of my schooling years. I entered my new middle school in seventh grade and found life easier.  
   

Although the experience of moving threw me at first, I learned to adjust. It helped me understand life better and be more tolerant of the things that happen in my life. This change helped me learn how to adapt to new situations and face more difficult tasks. Everyone is going to learn at some point in their life how to adapt and I'm just glad I learned early. So even though life can be difficult everyone should and will need to learn to adapt with life and roll with the punches.