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Assembly Speech #2


Until a little over a year ago I lived a life that was steady and unchanging within the boundaries of the “Orange County Curtain”. However, that was until my parents announced that we were moving from San Clemente, our small beach town in southern California, to a rock made out of lava by the name of Maui. My mouth automatically flew open in protest but screams of anger and streaming tears could not change their minds. I asked myself later whilst hiding away in my room, “Didn’t they know they were ruining my life?” Yet little did I know my experience would not ruin my life but make my life.
I was born and raised within the small confines of San Clemente, California, as were my parents and grandparents causing my family to be commonly referred to as the “Clemente Calverts”. I had gone through school with the same group of peers since preschool, had the same sports teams and the same group of friends. A change as big as moving to a completely different state, which happened to be in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, came as quite a shock. In the beginning I refused to accept the situation, thinking that if I wished the move away it meant that it didn’t exist. However Fall turned into Winter and “the big move” was still looming at the end of summer. I felt that each day that passed was like a grain of sand falling into the bottom of time turner. My time was simply running out.
As winter continued I began to defulge my secret to close friends, each reaction was the same of how excited they were for me and what a great opportunity that it offered me. Little did they know that behind my façade of anticipation I was in a panic. I had applied to a private school, Seabury Hall, and had yet to here their decision on my admittance. Which I took as a sign that I wasn’t meant to move to Maui; I was fine exactly where I was. In fact I silently hoped that I wouldn’t get in thinking that it...