Its All About Me

My name is Tashe Stuppard. I was born in Ft. Stewart, Ga on an army base. I lived on base and also outside of this base in a town called Hinesville, Ga. This is where I grew up for the earliest part of my childhood. I left Hinesville when I was in the 4^th grade to go live with my dad in Radcliff, Ky. I spent all of my 5^th grade year here bonding with my dad and my oldest brother Treyvon. I loved my school in Kentucky. Parkway Elementary had more opportunities in extended learning than I experienced when I lived in the small town of Hinesville. It was also great that I was able to live full time with the other side of my family. After 5^th grade I moved back to Hinesville, where I finished out the 6^th grade living with my grandma while my mom had already started a new job in Alexandria, Va. Once the school year ended me and my twin brothers moved to Virginia with my mom where I started my 7^th grade year and where I would finish out half of my freshman year. I thought Kentucky was great, Virginia had it all. Virginia was so full of different cultures, tall buildings, corner stores, and I definitely can not leave out the large amounts of traffic. I made so many friends here and hated that I had to leave. Not only did I love my new environment but also the schools I attended. I was big on my education so being able to advance my education by taking advanced and AP classes excited me. This was something that my little old town I grew up in didn’t offer. If you haven’t noticed yet, I was an army brat. So there was definitely a lot of traveling and different schools that I attended. After half of my freshman year, me and my family moved to Maryland where I finished out the other half of my freshman year. We didn’t spend a lot of time here but I still had a great time. My next destination we set off to was right here in Ft. Mitchell, Al. This is where I thought I was sent to die. I thought that Hinesville was rural, This was the epitome of rural. I was now in the middle of nowhere. Back to no civilization. I cried many nights when we first moved here. There was so many moments of rebellion and mischief just out of the strong feeling of not wanting to be here. This behavior pretty much blew over about halfway into my sophomore year when I started making friends. The education here was behind and no where near advanced as where I was living in the big city. I had to deal with it. Needless to say, I graduated from Russell County High School and took the first flight out to the city of Atlanta. I wanted back in the city so bad. Convenience was something I missed most. I spent a few years in Atlanta living what I called my best life, finally on my own. I started to get homesick and missed my family more than ever. I moved back here in 2018 to be closer to them and I also kind of missed the slower pace. I’ve been here ever since trying to get my life on track and save money so that I am able to venture off again on to bigger and better opportunities.