Loving Geography

Chapter 1 (Introduction)

Warning: really cringey as a thirteen year old wrote it who had no idea what she was doing.

Imagine your whole life turning upside down...

Imagine having a lot of changes in your life all at once...

I think we must be open to changes because they are a huge part of life.

Do we accept those changes that life throws at us? Do we face those changes and embrace them? I don't know if you do, but I know a girl who did.

Sophia Adams, a thirteen-year-old girl, who used to live in Germany for twelve years of her life, one day had to face an enormous change in her life. Her parents decided to take her to her motherland, Russia, where she would live and grow up. Leaving her wonderful childhood behind, she went to Russia. A new page, a new life, a new surrounding. Being separated from her best friends, she had to study new languages too. She knew English, German and French but there was a language she still needed to learn for her to get along at her new school-Russian. It was her mother language but living in Germany, she didn't need to know the language as well as needed to.

There was this new system waiting for her too. It was something she wasn't familiar with. "Retelling" was something she didn't know how to do at all. She couldn't even talk properly. How was she going to retell? Well, with her new class (which wasn't a very good one) she tried to manage her studies. A whole year passed and with the help and support of teachers and friends, soon Sophia began to learn Russian. Usually, when asked what her favorite subject was or what was she interested in it, she could never give an answer to those questions. Never in her wildest dreams, she imagined that her life would change like this. She always asked herself why did she go, what was her purpose there? She waited for the answers, but they never came. I don't think they ever will.