There have been many instances in my life where my perception of the situation was quite far from the actual reality that was around me. For instances when my family and I moved to a new city I thought that it would be the same thing as where we were from but it wasn't. The actual reality was that it was a whole different environment then I thought it was going to be. .
My family and I use to live in Los Angeles where the city was all beat up, it looked bad and there weren't very many nice people that I have met in Los Angeles. So when I heard we were moving to Lake Elsinore I thought that it would be the same place old, beaten up, concrete all torn up, tree roots in the concrete and not very many nice people. I thought that the school was going to be the same or worse. But when my family and I took a trip to go see our new house I was thinking that it wasn't going to be any better than the house we already lived in, in Los Angeles, but I was wrong what really was going on was that it was a much nicer place then Los Angeles and a lot of people I have met have been very nice to me. The school was much better than the one I attended in Los Angeles. There was no wannabe gangster kids in the new school I started to attend when moving to Lake Elsinore. The neighborhood that I live in, in Los Angeles, wasn't very safe so I couldn't stay out past six o' clock but when we moved to Lake Elsinore the neighborhood was so much better and way safer than the neighborhood we use to live in. When we moved to Lake Elsinore I couldn't sleep very much for the first few nights because it was so much quieter than we expected when moving over here. There was a big difference in the reality and my perception because I haven't really been to a place that was nice and not all torn up and vandalized on. Instead most of the place I have been too has been very different than what I saw on my trip to Lake Elsinore.