Assignment 21- Doug Vaughan

It was just last January I had just gotten home from school and my parents told me to get in the car as we were looking at a potential home to buy. This shook me, I knew my parents wanted to move but I thought it was going to be a few years, after I leave for college. The whole time I was viewing this new house I kept spotting out  and focusing on little things like marked up walls, the wired smell, and the annoyance of so many more stairs. What bothered me most of all was my new room, my first impression when I walked in the room I was overwhelmed by the excess of ugly purple and green paint and the fact that no furniture made the room seem smaller than that of my old house. After we visited that house I was confident with the many faults I saw the house had that my parents would never consider buying it, but to my surprise they bought it. I was then furious with them as this meant I was leaving my home for as long i could remember. My prejudices continued until on morning mom drove me over there one morning, handed me a paint brush and a can of paint, and told me to paint my room. It took about 14 hours to paint but when i finished i had a whole new perspective on the house. My room went from drab green and purple to fab bright blue and white, and i also realized that my room was slightly bigger. A week later we moved in to the new house and as I am writing this blog we have been living here for a week and a half and its not as bad as i thought. Overall this experience has taught me that i should embrace change not run from it.