Maria Bachyn’ska * Graduation and Graduaters

This year we’re graduating from school. It was our second home. There we found a lot of friends who we often spoke with. The teachers gave us much knowledge and taught us not only their subjects but also about life. In a month we’ll have our exams and graduating ceremony. We’ll finish this school and it will be forever. It’s hard to imagine us, the eleventh graders, with our certificates standing on the stage of the assembly hall, but it will be so. This is the eighth time that the eleventh graders graduate from school. I hope we are not the worst and the teachers will remember us.

Ira Lukianets’* Headway

For every person it is very important to find a right way in his life. It is a difficult task because all his future life depends on his choice. Now we are going through such a period. We have to choose the way of how to continue our education to find a good job in the future. It’s very important to take into consideration a lot of aspects such as the attitude of this or that profession, our abilities, and the field of interest, financial side of the problem, but most of feel to young. In this situation it’s very useful to listen to advice from parents, close friends, and relatives. The last word must be yours because it’s your life and you are the only one who has to choose your headway. IN this connection I’d like to tell about the series of our English textbooks Headways. It’s organized in a proper way so it’s handy and full of information. The book is divided into units, each of them consist of different parts; grammar, vocabulary, reading, speaking, listening, writing, and post script. At the end of the book there are transcripts and grammar reference. This book is full of information and useful from the point of spoken language.

Lena Borysiuk * Insects

From the very beginning of our school existence there have been problems with insects. They are everywhere. Usually they are brown and big with great antennas. Very often they become the center of students’ attention and teachers don’t like it. During the first years of studying there were a lot of them, but later they started to disappear. When cockroaches run in the classroom girls are crying and boys are killing them. Usually they live on the shelves, plants, and especially in the dining room. To my mind, these insects don’t have any bad influence and I don’t mind their living in our school because I know in China, they are domestic animals, like cats and dogs.

Taras Khraban * Journeys

This year I’m graduating from school. I think that it was a very important period of my life. I think the journeys we had in our group helped us to develop better. It was a very nice group, each member of which was like a sister or brother to me and we lived as one family. To my mind, we became so friendly because we’ve done lots of work together and also had our rest together. Now I am trying to remember the places we went to. We travelled to Lviv, I think it is the best city in Western Ukraine. It was a wonderful and unforgettable trip. We also went to Stryi and Zhytomyr. We traveled a lot, but I must say we also hiked to Olexandrivka. I have to admit that during the journeys we felt ourselves free and became more friendly. How hard is it to realize there will be no more journeys in our grade? We are school graduaters it is such a pity.