15- Trevor O: Moving Again

 

On the first day of fourth grade, I was excited and happy to see all of my friends again. The way my elementary school was set up, every student had the same teacher and class for both third and fourth grade, so I basically knew what to expect and already had a close group of friends on my first day. For the most part, my school year wasn’t much different from the last and was fairly ordinary. In class, we learned basic math and science, and we learned about the missions and the gold rush. At lunch, I would eat our school’s brand-new cafeteria and then play wiffle ball or trade Pokémon cards with my friends.  

Most of my school year was fairly ordinary and boring. The highlight of that school year was probably when my class and all the other fourth grade classes went on a multi-day field trip to this state park up north that was a large center for gold mining during the gold rush.

Everything seemed to be going good and I really enjoyed the new campus our school had moved to and the friends I had in my class. But then, towards the end of the year, around March or April, my mom told me and my sister that this would be our last year at that school and that we would be moving again, this time to Vacaville, which is a whole hour away from where we used to live. I was pretty shocked to say the least and while I was at first excited at the thought of moving somewhere new, I quickly lost that excitement when I realized that meant I would have to change schools and make new friends again. On the last day of fourth grade, I signed my friends’ yearbooks, and they signed mine as we said our goodbyes. I stayed in touch with some people from my fourth-grade class for a little bit, but quickly fell out of touch with them.

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