Going Cross Country

My mother has been in the army ever since I was little. 

I grew up in my birth town, Nashville, Tennessee until I was six years old, after first grade. Unfortunately, I don’t remember much about it.

After those first few years of living in Nashville, I moved to Atlanta, Georgia because of the military. I lived there for only three years and it became extremely hard to leave my friends right before fifth grade. 

But then, I moved to Columbia, South Carolina. South Carolina was and is my home. Of which I stayed for five years, the longest most military children stay in one place. It would have only been four years, but I stayed there an extra year with my father and my brother while my mother lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania without us. I attended elementary school, middle school, and high school in South Carolina. I met some of my closest and lifelong friends there. Unfortunately, not having my mother made my freshman year extremely difficult because I was beginning to become more of a teenager. My mother and I grew apart. I detested her and we stopped talking and I began to fall into a deep depression.

Following my freshman year, I moved to Pittsburgh with my mother and the rest of my family. Right after I moved and unpacked all of my things, my family got word from the military that my mother was selected to become a student at the Sergeant Major Academy in Ft. Bliss, Texas, causing me to spend another year being depressed because I knew that I would have to move again. So after a year, I moved to El Paso for ANOTHER year of school and we plan to move again next year for a fourth high school in four years. But after that, I will go off to college and, finally, I will get to stay put.