Write An Essay About Moving Back To The United States

Everyone has their own story, each one as unique as the next. Every day we encounter different people who have different experiences and different views of the world. Some, however, are closer to our stories than others. And when we meet someone extremely different from us, we tend to respond by finding the similarities in ourselves and them. Growing up with a dad in the military, and even after he left it, I lived in many different places. In every place the people were different. Every time we moved, I found myself attempting to learn how to fit in with this new group of people. This has made it easier for me to become friends with people I share almost nothing in common with. During my time living in Pennsylvania, my best friend was a girl
She spent parts of her summers in Nigeria with family and ended up moving there for a couple of years before moving back to the United States. While I don’t remember our first meeting, I remember living down the street from her and I remember our
When she talked about her father, who was in charge of her household, or when I ate dinner and watched her parents’ interactions, which were very different than those of my own mother and father, I just didn’t think about it. Efe and I never really talked about the differences between our lives. I never asked about her family or time in Nigeria and she never asked me about what it was like moving all the time. If I were in the same situation again today, I would definitely make more of an attempt to understand the differences between us instead of ignoring them. While Efe and I were best friends despite our differences and never let those differences affect the way we treated each other, looking back I know there was a lot that I didn’t know about her and vice versa. I wish I had taken the time to ask about her family in Nigeria and about what it was like to be from two different countries. I wish I had asked her if she felt like people treated her differently in either country because she had two nationalities. I have so many questions that I never asked and I wish that I