Last Summer I worked for A.C.L.E, an educational association in Italy, teaching English to Italian Children in Summer Camps. I was based just outside Milan, with a class of ten 5-7 year olds and the daunting task of trying to make them understand me! Despite having worked with children before, I had no real teaching [...]

When I was young my father taught me how to speak English. My father said, “ I’m proud of you my boy.”  I was very happy because my father said, “I’m proud of you my boy.” One day I was in the class and my teacher came to me and said,  ”Did you want to [...]

I was chosen to be a RCL (Represent Class Leader). I was working well, all learners were under my leadership and if someone was making a mistake they had to come to me and tell me and I had to fix it, if that person didn’t agree with me we must go and see the [...]

One summer day I helped my parents and our neighbors to cut unnecessary bushes and trees around our living place. It was a hard job for me. I worked all day and I was very tired. But my parents were very proud of me and felt very happy. Lukas, 14, Lithuania

One stormy day when I was getting a haircut together with my dad, suddenly a woman came in the door and said that an old lady had fallen outside in the wind. Quickly my dad ran outside and helped the old lady inside. We found out the lady was 90 years old, so it wasn’t [...]

There I was sitting on the floor of the gymnasium waiting for the results from the tournament. They were narrowing it down to third place then down to second and our names were not called yet, I thought for sure we were not going to place. Then the announcer finally got to the first place [...]

I felt my cleats sink into the turf as I got down in my stance. My mind screamed at me “Don’t let them get this, its fourth down.” I saw the ball snap, I rushed forward shoving my blocker. I needed to get to the quarterback. I saw him drop back, my feet chopped faster [...]

Last week my form was responsible for cleaning the monument to the heroes of the Great Patriotic war in the town park not far from the trade centre “Sosny”. All the meetings in honor of the great victory on May 9 and on July 3 when we celebrate the liberation of Belarus from the German [...]

One of my magical moments was the first time I rode my bike without training wheels. This was a magical moment for me, especially because I will always remember that day like it was yesterday. I was looking out the window and saw all of the other kids on my street, riding their bikes. When [...]

My magical moment was at a gymnastics meet when I finally accomplished my goal of scoring a “9″ on one event. This came true one Sunday when slowly the judge showed my score of a “9.1″ after I completed my best beam routine I had ever done. I could hear my parents loudly cheering for [...]