Narrative Essay

Moving away from home is a life changing experience for anyone. You have to deal with leaving the people you love and have known your entire life. When you leave home you’re starting a whole new life due to living somewhere totally new for the first time. This can be a great experience for anyone because you’re living somewhere where you know no one and every day you see new faces. Leaving home on your own is a whole new chapter in life. The day I left home was August 20, 2011 and I was the most ecstatic person on earth. I was thinking about all the new things I’m going to be able to do and all the new people I’m going to meet. Home was New Jersey for me and as much as I loved it I’ve always loved Florida more. Every summer since I was a kid I would always come to Florida and spend the entire summer with my aunt and uncle. There was never once a summer that I didn’t come and every summer I came I would always wish that I could stay and didn’t have to go back home to NJ. So finally when I finished high school my wish came true and I got to move to Florida. When I moved to Florida I was moving on my own with my two dogs. I had a two door sports car and I remembered it was crammed all over the place with my stuff. The day it was finally time for me to go my mother was so sad and crying because she didn’t want me to go and was trying to convince me to stay. Once I left my mother’s house I was off to pick up my favorite cousin and begin the long journey to Florida. It was my first time driving to Florida so it was awesome to see all the interesting sights in every state we went through. On the drive down we took lots of pictures of random things, my two dogs behaved way better than I thought they would, and I got a beautiful $500 dollar speeding ticket in Georgia. Finally, when we arrived in Florida I was so excited to get to my new apartment that I couldn’t stop thinking about the entire trip down to Florida. My dogs were running around so I got the