Throughout my life so far, I have not migrated that much, although I definitely would like to travel to more places or move different locations to explore many more and unfamiliar parts of the world around me. To start on my migration throughout my life, I was born in Portland, Oregon, and lived there for a few years. I then moved from Portland to Bend, Oregon which is where I grew up and where I hold most of my childhood memories. While I was in bend, I lived in two different houses and moved from one neighborhood to the other. My family's first house in Bend was a rental house, and we lived there for only a few years before moving to a house we bought that we designed and absolutely loved. Personally, because I was so young at the time of my first and second migrations, I didn't have a choice, but I enjoyed all of the time that I can remember being in Bend and Portland. I felt completely wanted in Bend and we lived in a great neighborhood. As I stayed at the same school for preschool through third grade, I had a great time there and I became so comfortable and friendly with many teachers and friends there. Due to the housing crisis in 2008, this caused my family to have to sell our house in Bend and move to Lake Oswego, Oregon, which is where I currently live and have lived here since fourth grade. I moved to a completely new house and neighborhood, and it was such a different atmosphere than I was used to. I also moved to a new school and made new friends and adapted to the way things were around here. I then stayed in Lake Oswego all the way up until I graduated high school and now I attend Oregon State University and live in Corvallis, Oregon during the school year. The other times I have migrated would be traveling which included going to Maui in Hawai'i for vacation my junior year of high school, going to Anaheim, California three times for three years in a row for the national cheerleading competition with my high school cheer team, going to San Diego, California with my family for vacation, going to Lake Shasta, California with family friends last summer, traveling to Austin, Texas for a music festival with friends, and just traveling around places in Oregon by choice and for enjoyment. My "people" or my family have all lived in the same environment for more than 10 generations and all of my family except for one side of grandparents lives in Washington, so still very close by. My family and my friends mostly taught me how to survive in my environment. The knowledge of my elders was based on their parents, which I assume is where they got their parenting skills. The skills they had were similar but also different in ways to how my own parents raised my sister and I. They learned things like how to obtain food and what structures to live in from again their parents and I would assume the others around them in the environment they grew up in. My family definitely migrated as an adaptive strategy due to changing living conditions, lack of resources like food and shelter, and things like the housing crisis in 2008 which caused my family to move to Lake Oswego. I do not believe my family was ever persecuted in their original place as most of my family was not religious or heavily affiliated with a specific religion or religious group or didn't have any other reason to be persecuted. I think my children might migrate to another place when they are adults just depending on where they enjoy traveling and where they enjoy spending their time. I think it will also depend on how they raise their families in the future and where the members of their family originate from.