Document Type
Comparison and Contrast Essay
Publication Date
1992
Excerpt
Growing up in rural New Jersey for the first 16 years of my life did not prepare me for my first year out of high school. I was part of the typical, middle-class family: mother, father and one younger brother. I had lived in the same old house, had the same room, and slept in the same bed since I was two weeks old. Then I graduated from high school. All my friends had the whole summer off, but I had only one week after graduation to prepare for the next step in my life. Instead of going to college like any other high school graduate, I chose to go on a fourteen-month tour with a Christian rock ministry group. This experience turned out to be the most enjoyable year of my life, but it was a 180 degree turn from the way I had lived.
Recommended Citation
Simshauser, John, "On the Road for the First Time (1992)" (1992). The Valpo Core Reader. 328.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/328