Narrative Essay About Moving To Chicago

I was raised, since eight years of age in Canton, a northern community in Georgia. My upbringing was in a suburban setting, relatively quiet and with a lot of friendships developed right from my neighborhood. Except for vacations to Florida, most of my friends never left Canton and went to the same elementary, middle and high school. Our parents drove us to school, enrolled me in Lacrosse, baseball and football. I grew with, what I consider, a very normal American childhood.

During the summer before my sophomore year in high school my father had to relocate to Chicago for one year that gave us an opportunity to live there. We moved in August into a northern section of the city, Lincoln Park. Moving to Chicago was an exciting opportunity to live in a big city. Since I never lived in a big city, I was not really sure what to expect. The school where my brother and I were enrolled is Jones College Prep. In comparison to Lincoln Park, a residential area in the north section of Chicago, Jones College Prep was in the South Loop, a very busy downtown area of the City. Instead of mom driving us to school every day, we hopped on the Redline L-train and for 23 minutes each way travelled above and
Fortunately, both my brother and I were accepted. The selective program within the Chicago Public School uses an evaluation method that did not penalize any specific socio-economic class. When it came to academic performance, the rigorous evaluation criteria, to compare applicants, is the same regardless of household income. Because of this diversity, it meant that the school population was a true melting pot of students from varying backgrounds of religion, race and socio-economic status. Not only moving to a big city was a big change, so was my exposure to a broad range of diverse fellow