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Personal Narrative Essay About Moving To Istanbul Turkey

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One of the most impactful times in my life was moving to Istanbul Turkey. I was about a month into summer break sitting in my room playing video games with my friend. Before all of this, they had been talking about going there for the longest time. I can say though, the one thing that surprised me was the fact that it was only going to be me and my mom. Usually, when we went on vacation it was all 4 of us, and we would go to visit family, being the age that I was I didn 't ask any questions since there isn 't much an 11-year-old can question anyway. Jump forward a few days to the day of the flight, I wake up earlier than everybody else and call my friend that I was playing with before to get on so that we can play games one last time before I go since I was going to be gone for the rest of the summer. Slowly everyone in the house started waking up my dad passed my room and gave me a look as to why I was playing video games so early in the morning. Finally, it 's time to go but first, we had to drive to Chicago. Now I and my dad don 't mind road trips, my mom an sister, on the other hand, are the complete opposite. My mom annoys my dad with constantly needing to stop and go the restroom and if my sister isn 't annoying me I 'm annoying her. After the 6-hour road trip came to an end, we …show more content…

Now I had switched schools a couple of times before so this really wasn 't something new to me. The only thing different about this time was that I barely knew the language. Then one of my aunt 's friends ended up telling her about this school that had mostly English classes, so we went for it. Next day we went to the school and had a look around, they had someone from the U.S working there so I felt a bit better and thought to myself that this wouldn 't be bad. Overall I didn 't feel too bad about anything, in fact, you could say I was kind of

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