I have done a lot of moving throughout my life. My father works for a company that has made us move quite a bit, so I grew up all over the country. For a kid, the hardest part of moving is finding new friends at a new school with new faces, teachers, and rules. This was difficult at a young age because every time I would more somewhere else, something different would be in style and I would be an outcast until I met that style requirement.

One of the other things that is hard on kids when they move is the fact that a new and different class may be in a different part of a subject than an old class. I remember moving from Missouri to Mississippi, and getting to Mississippi when I was just learning multiplication, and they were already studying division, so I was really confused. I was only able to make it through by working very hard.

When moving, I remember we would make a moving checklist. This list would be comprised of everything that we needed to do when we moved, and everything that we needed to do when we were getting settled in our newly purchased home. The list would include such items as what to pack, what we needed to bring, and what would get thrown away or given away. We also wrote down different things that we needed to do to get our old home ready for the next family.

Usually, my family would choose one of the many long distance moving companies out there to take care of our move. We did this when we relocated from New Mexico to Florida. I remember flying and getting to see our new home, but not being able to stay there because it would take a few days for all of our belongings to arrive.

The last move that I did in was a local move just down the street in the same town. We ended up using a Florida moving company for this one. We currently live in Orlando, and so it was not hard to find a company that would transport our belongings two miles down the road. This was the easiest move I can remember we have done, because we were able to move into our new home that day, and not have the hassle of waiting for all of our belongings to show up at the house.