Moving Day

The moving van arrived early in the morning. Two strong men started carrying our furniture out of the house. It looked so strange seeing the rooms empty! They carefully wrapped the mirror from the hall and the big television from the sitting room.

They took the sofa, the armchairs, the dining table and chairs, and the bookcases full of books. From my bedroom, they took my bed, my desk, and my chair. All my clothes from the cupboard were packed in boxes.

My posters were off the walls, and my lamp was in a box too. Even the curtains were taken down! We drove to the new house. It looked nice from the outside, with a small garden and a red front door.

Inside, everything smelled of new paint. We walked around. There was a big sitting room, a kitchen, three bedrooms upstairs, and a bathroom. It felt much bigger than our old apartment. It even had a garage!

The moving men started bringing everything inside. "Where do you want the sofa?" one asked my mum. They put it near the window in the sitting room. They brought in the beds and put them in the bedrooms. They carefully placed the washing machine in the kitchen next to the sink.

It took hours! Boxes were everywhere. We had to decide where to put all the furniture. We put the bookcases in the sitting room. My desk went under the window in my new bedroom. I already knew where I wanted to hang my favourite poster.

That night, we slept in our new house for the first time. My bed had clean sheets and my favourite pillow and blanket. It felt strange but good. There was still so much to do – unpack boxes, put things on shelves, hang pictures and curtains. But it was the start of a new adventure in our new home.