Yulia Kozak * Breaks

We were studying in school for ten years and now I can say that breaks were one of the most important and loved things at school. I can say that we had enough time to have our rest but remembering myself one or two years ago it always seemed that we had a lack of them. I can’t describe myself as a brilliant student but I always wanted to use the breaks as the time for making my studying better. I read books, studied rules, but it was for nothing. Each time when I came back to school my marks were the same. After ten years of studying in school I’ve made some conclusions. I’d like to give my advice as to breaks. If you have a break please don’t try to study. You’ll have enough time to do it at school. You should visit your friends and talk with them as much as you can not to have problems during the lessons because teachers always want to know why you are chatting during the lesson. They think that you haven’t communicated with friends. Do your best to have a good rest during your breaks. These are the main rules you should do and you won’t think our breaks are too short.

Natalka Buzian * Club

Our club is a special place where we meet from time to time. We come there after classes and discuss different topics. We also listen to music, drink coffee, look through our projects, and photos again and again. We just rest there. That is the unique place in our school because you may come here any time you wish. I’ve spent a lot of time here typing the newspaper, writing letters to Artem, or just spending time in the close company of my friends. In the eleventh grade we met in the club to discuss such topics as “My Last Twenty-four Hours of Life”, “Our Graduation”, “Patriotism in Rock Opera” and others. All the meetings were very interesting. We had a lot of things to talk about and to discuss.

Olena Fursa * Desks

Desks are the integral attributes of all the schools and mostly all of our school life’s we spend setting over this very desks. But in our school desks are not similar on the desks from the other schools cos’ one of the paragraphs of school policy is keeping the desks, so you will never find any blots or cues on them, no matter in what cabinet you came in. We also have special care for them. Every day we clean them, using special cleaning dusters. This is the responsibility of every person who is on duty today.

Nadia Zatsepina * English

English is not the only subject we have to study in school. For us it is one of the ways to communicate with foreigners. These lessons are also the time when we speak about our school, town, other countries of the world, different problems, and our future life. We’ve done a lot of interesting projects and some times we play interesting and funny games. Once a month we came to our club to speak about current events and problems we have in our school and our group. I hope our studying English will help us in our future lives because it’s a language that is used all over the world.

Inna Honchar * Foreigners

During our study in this school we had been learning two foreign languages and we had a great opportunity to communicate with native speakers. All started with having foreign pen pals in the USA. That was our first experience in how to use English. Then we spoke English with Americans face to face. The great event was in 1998 when Michael Ostapuk visited us. It was the first meeting with a foreigner after which Michael became one of the best foreign friends of our school. For three years we studied German and spoke it with our German friend Jorg and his son David who came to us three times from Hannover, Germany. Besides other foreigners visited our school, such as Amy who had practice here, and Tamar an ecologist from the Peace Corps. Amy was a nice girl and we like her lessons, especially the one when she spoke about American slang. Of course the first American girl who speaks Ukrainian almost fluently is Veronica who became our teacher and good friend.