When I moved down to Virginia by Josh Wood

As I walked into the room I felt like I was out of place and that I didn’t belong.  I heard the teacher say “Class, this is our new student Joshua.” 

I said “Hi”, but I was scared and didn’t like the feeling of being the new kid at the school.  There are a few reasons why I was scared of being the new kid and why I didn’t like it.  The first reason was because I didn’t know anybody, and I felt like I was young at the time and I was very shy.  I also didn’t like it because I couldn’t make friends very easily.  Another reason that I didn’t like being the new kid was I had to leave all of my friends in Ohio to move down to Virginia.  It was in the middle of the school year, so I didn’t know what was going on and I had to catch up on a few things, and I didn’t like to have to catch up on school work.

In the first couple of weeks I got all caught up with the class and I had made a couple of friends that I hung out with all the time.  Although I started to make friends, I was still really shy around most of the people.  I was shy because eight years ago I wasn’t really big.  I was actually really skinny and boney, so I wasn’t very confident in myself.  With being tiny like I was and being shy I stuck with the friends that I had because they approached me and wanted me to be their friend, I’m glad about that because I would haven’t had the courage to do that if they didn’t talk to me first. 

I thought that my teacher was a lot of fun and I enjoyed him even though he had a naturally loud voice.  I liked him because he was fair and nice to everyone in the class, especially me because I was the new kid.  He also didn’t give us a lot of homework to do on a regular basis, which was nice. 

At the time I didn’t know anyone my age lived in my neighborhood, although I now know that like 10 friends live within walking distance.  So back then, I played mainly in my back yard with my little brothers in our tree fort.  When I was young, I thought that was a bunch of fun, but now that I have grown up I don’t think it is as much fun partially because I’m always doing homework. 

Now that I look back on the move I can see that a lot of great things happened, although I had to get used to Virginia.  I think it has helped in the long run of life because I have gotten into a good Boy Scout troop and done a lot of life changing things with them. 

If I had not moved to Virginia there would be a few things that definitely wouldn’t have happened.  One thing that I know wouldn’t have happened is I wouldn’t have made so many new friends.  Also, I wouldn’t have to drive as much up to Ohio and back for holidays.  Last of all, I would still be living next to my best friend.