1. Topic: Moving from Mississippi to California
2. Purpose: To find out some of the challenges young people go through after changing neighborhood
3. Introduction
a) Does moving from one neighborhood to another have any impact on a child?
b) This is my personal account of how moving from Mississippi to California affected me.
4. Body
a) One summer evening my father told us that we were going to move to California.
i. I experienced the fear of moving to a town larger than Mississippi.
ii. We moved to downtown California which was not as large as the uptown parts of the town and hence it was easier to fit in.
b) I had the wish to make friends fast.
i. I assumed that my outspoken character would help me gain friends quickly.
ii. Most of the children in the new area were not very accommodative to new people.
iii. It took me a month to finally make a friend, Alex.
c) My new friend helped me get other friends.
i. Alex introduced me to her friends and this way it was easier to get friends.
5. Conclusion: What I learnt?
a) That I should be kind to new people and not discriminate against them.
b) That a person might be outspoken and still find it hard to make friends.
Purpose: To find out some of the challenges young people go through after changing neighborhood
The story I am about to share is something that many people especially the youths go through especially in their teenage years. For a long time, I heard my friends talk about it especially after they moved from our state to another, but it never occurred to me that the same would happen to me, years later. The story I am about to tell was something I went through after my father got a transfer from Mississippi to California, and this meant that we had to change residence and move from the East Coast to the West.
Body
When dad came home on that summer evening and declared that we were moving from Mississippi to California, I didn’t know how to react especially based on the fact that Mississippi is a relatively small state compared to California. However, based on the fact that we moved into downtown California, life wasn’t as different as I feared it would.
Not until I started interacting with my age mates from the neighborhood. Being the outspoken person, I hoped I would make friends fast. It however occurred to me that the youngsters in the neighborhood had a pessimistic approach to ‘newcomers’ and it actually took me a month to make a friend, Alex. Alex was a girl my age, and had blond hair just as mine.
Alex introduced me to her friends Kim and Martin and the best thing was the fact that we were all in the same school. This is the point when it dawned to me that a person might be very social but still have problems with making friends.
