2025/Joanne-

Hello, my name is Joanne, and I became a military child!

My dad is in the military. I live in Okinawa, Japan. Okinawa is a small island in Japan. I moved to Camp Foster Towers when I was seven years old. When I was a first grader, I was in Zukeran Elementary School. Then I moved to Kinser Heights Family Housing when I was eight.

In Zukeran Elementary School, the teachers and students were so nice, but when we had to say goodbye, I didn’t want to go to Kinser Heights Family Housing, but my parents told me things were going to be OK, and changes weren’t so bad. So, when it was my first day at Kinser Elementary School, my parents turned out to be right!

I usually write stories on Freeform like the Magic Time Machine, a parody of the Magic Tree House book series. The Magic Time Machine series is where one summer day in Kinser Heights Family Housing, a mysterious time machine car appears at the playground. Me and my family climb into the time machine, and we find that it is filled with books. All we have to do is point to a picture in one of the travel-through-time books and make a wish to go there. I think traveling this way is kind of like being a military kid!

Being a military child is easy, and hard too. The hard part is when you have to say goodbye to your old friends when you’re moving to a new home. I guess it’s fun to make new friends when you’re a military child, but it is also good to keep old friends as well.