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Ever thought what it would be like to move across the country and lose all of your friends???
Sara Wolkon, former Hazel student will tell us as she lives through this disruption in her life. Read Journal Entry Part 1…Leaving Hazel. Stay tuned for Journal Entry 2…her feelings towards American schools and…Americans in general.
Moving schools at anytime of the year can be a difficult experience. However, when it happens during your middle school years, it can be accompanied by emotional pain, sadness and disappointment. Adolescence is a critical time in any child’s life and when moving to another school or a country is mentioned, to an adolescent, it can represent the end of the world. We thought it would be interesting to follow a Hazel student that actually went through this experience and continues to go through it now.
In September, Grade 7 student Sara Wolkon learned that her father was going to be transferred out to Seattle, a city in the state of Washington, in the United States. Fortunately, the transfer was not going to take effect until December 27th, so Sara got to enjoy one last term at Hazel before she departed. But, she knew she was eventually moving and there would be a time when she would have to say goodbye to her assortment of friends here at Hazel.
In the next few months we will follow Sara’s journey through her writings. She was good enough to share with us her feelings on her last day of school at Hazel this December in this journal excerpt. In the next few weeks, we will get to see how Sara is adapting to her new life (her first impressions of American school, and American life) and her last journal entry will fill us in on the end of her school year in early June.
Please come back and read this 3 part series and see, through her eyes, how an adolescent reacts and feels about a cross country move at one of the most critical times of her life.