Why am I who I am?

Well, my name is Elizabeth Rose Chimenti but everybody besides my family calls me Liz. The nickname actually started late as no one called me that until middle school and when that happened that’s when I started referring to myself as Liz too. Anyways as I am still only 17 years old there are only a few events that have helped shape who I am today. I guess my first major influential event was when I was 10 and I moved from one town on Long Island to another one unknown to me a half hour away. To the young me this was the end of the world as I’m sure it is to many young children who move. My new neighborhood was one completely different from my hometown as the cliques were already set and I was left out of all of them. I never really found myself through elementary and middle school it wasn’t until I reached high school that I began to appreciate what this move had brought me. My family although originally torn by the move was now stronger then ever with better bonds with my parents and brother. My father soon after the move was laid-off in the economic downturn and by high school we had pulled out of the hard times of just making ends meat. With a set family, Bellmore also gave me my best friend who lives just across the street. When I first moved in we exchanged a few words hear and there and a few hangouts among mutual friends but when high school started that changed. From the beginning of high school and continuing to today he is my boyfriend, but more importantly my best friend who encouraged me to embrace who I am. With the start of college that idea is the most important as we all are looking for lifetimes friends. College has fulfilled its rumor of being way better than high school in even the simplest form of air conditioning to the hope to learn more useful information. Also it’s fulfilled it’s job of being harder than high school thus my simple hopes this semester is to get the hang of things in order to continue my high school success over the next four years here.