tsDanielle+Y.

Every year I get a new home, new friends, and a new life. My dad works for the CIA so every summer they move us all around the country. My mom is a senator so she stays in Washington D.C. So basically I get a new life every time I move. . . that adds up to about 12 lives. I'm 13 and in about a month I'm moving to Los Anglos. I'm excited but not. I miss all the friends I've made, not only here but everywhere. And L.A. is beautiful. Plus my dream basketball school. My wish has always been to attend that school. I'm finally 13 and can make it in starting in November.

Seattle, Baltimore, Miami, Huston, and Boston were the first 5 years of my life. I was so young that I don't remember it at all. But then i want to Memphis, San Fransico, Atlanta, and New York were my next 4 years. I made LOTS of friends but don't remember them either because I had moved so much. Next came San Deigo and Nashville. I was 10 and 11. And being that age without a mother was just pure stress. I was at the stage where I hated the world and everyone in it so you know what that adds up to - no friends.

Now I'm in the only town that is not a city. That town is just outside of Baltimore called Elkridge. My father doesn't really know why he was sent to such an unimportant area but it was only for a year. This past year has been everything to me. I go to Elkridge Landing Middle School and I've made so many friends and I just felt so safe. Life was perfect. But now I'm off to Los Anglos.

"Honey, I was just given the choice to live where ever we want for the next 5 year while I'm still working for the CIA. It's either we stay here or L.A. for the next 5 years." I was SHOCKED. He left it all up to me to deicide.

L.A. was for basketball and Elkridge is for happiness. . . . happiness it is!