As if moving itself wasn’t painful enough, add to the mix moving across the country; new school, new friends, hell new time zone.  It’s not like I haven’t moved before because I have, just nothing this drastic.  But one thing I’ve learned from moving is that somethings always get lost in the move.  I’m Spencer Carlin and welcome to my life.

It’s been a month since my family and I moved to LA.  My mom, Paula, got some supposedly amazing position as a surgeon at Cedar Sinai Hospital.  Therefore, my parents felt the need to pack up my brothers, Glen and Clay, and I to head for LA.  My dad, Arthur, being the psychiatrist that he is said that we were young and it would be easy for us to adjust.  Yeah right, he obviously doesn’t know his children very well.

But I have to admit that I was kind of excited about going to LA.  I mean come on it is LA, the land of the movie stars.  So when I first arrived in La La Land, I was totally blinded by all the glitering lights.  It was still summer vacation, so after unpacking my life mainly consisted of one thing, the beach.  But after one month of pure bliss, my life came crashing back down to reality.  It was that time of year again, the one that I now came to dread, the first day of school.

I didn’t used to hate school.  In fact, it was just the opposite.  Back in Ohio, I couldn’t wait for school to start.  That meant seeing all my friends, cheer practice, and student council.  But now all of tha is gone, lost in the move.  In LA I have no friends and I’m not on the cheerleading squad nor student council.  All that awaits me at school are unfamiliar staring faces and annoying teachers.  My dad keeps saying that I’ll adjust and make new friends, try out for the cheer squad.  But he so does not understand high school.  You can’t just become popular over night.  I’m not saying that I was the most popular girl in school in Ohio, but I was part of the so-called in-crowd.  I even had a cute sweet basketball plyaing boyfriend, who I was kind of into, just one more thing lost in the move.