An event that had a significant impact on my life was when I was reunited with the rest of my family again in the past year. At that time I lived in Senegal for almost four years doing second, third, fourth and fifth grade in I.S.D. Around the end of fifth grade my parents planned for me and my two brothers to go to the States for some while and live with my aunt and cousin. The news was exciting for us until we actually got to the States. We really missed our friends and family that we really wanted to come back. We lived in Michigan for two years and those two years were the longest and the most coldest years of my life. It snowed like crazy every winter that some times we couldn’t even go to school.  At first I thought living without our parents was going to be the best thing ever since we could do a lot of things that they would not have let us done but later on, was when I felt lonely without them. From time to time they would come and visit us but the hardest part for me was when they would leave. I cried from when they left till they called to tell me they had arrived. Our last two weeks in the States were the best, it was then that we had fun and did the most shopping that we had ever done. At the airport people would normally cry when they leave someone behind but my brothers and I just gave a quick hug to my aunt after having our last double cheese burger from Mc Donald’s and ran to the plane. The feeling of excitement grew higher when we arrived in Dakar. See my dad smiling and waving at us got us all running to him while we were supposed to wait and get our passports checked. When we got home my mom, my nanny and even the guard that we have never met before, gave us the best welcome ever. That experience made me not want to be apart from my family ever again. Even if we go through hard times I always think positive that we can make it together as one big happy family.