Maureen Pichard-Rowell:  

I was in the Drill Team and had been accepted into the Madrigal Acapella Choir for my Senior Year but my father got accepted to a professorship position at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fl - so I moved from Rialto, Ca all the way to the Capital city of Florida the summer between my junior and senior year of highschool. I though my whole life was coming to an end! I drove my car, which I had received from my grandmother who had suffered a heart attach and was no longer able to drive, between my father who was driving a car and pulling our camper trailer which we camped in all the way across country, and my mother who was driving the station wagon which was packed to the rafters. My car had my brother and myself and the cats in it. We took a week and a half to cross the country while our furniture was being hauled by a freight company in a moving van. My parents had flown down and put a bid on a house earlier when my father had accepted the job. When we made it to Tallahassee it was raining cats and dogs and it was on a Sunday evening and there was literally no place open but hotels and pizza joints. I was ready to come back to California! When we got up on that Monday morning and made it to the new house we discovered that the moving van with our furniture had taken our belongings to another state - so we lived in our new house for a week with nothing!. When the new school year started I only had to take 2 classes in the mornings for my Senior year because my credits from my California transc...Expand for more