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Personal Narrative Into Adulthood

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A time in my life where I transitioned into adulthood was a very recent experience. Just this last year my mother made the decision to move to a new town, it 's closer to her place of employment. It was a just a very convenient decision for her. I wasn 't really thrilled about moving to a new school my senior year, the school in this new town is a very small district. Where I attend school it 's a lot bigger and my school has an amazing running program. I run cross country and track, my passion is running and my goal is to run in college. I knew if I moved it would hard for me to be able to accomplish my goals , because the new school is small as little no running teams. After explaining all this to my mother we talked it over and we

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