Alexey to Argentenean friends

              Hello,Micaela, Georgina and Erika!

       My name is Alexey. I’m from a small town called Nefteyugansk in Siberia, Russia.

      I like to spend my time with friends by going for a walk, to the cinema or maybe to the club. Also I like to work with my computer.

      I’m so glad about talking with you. There in Russia we have been studding in high school for 7 years. So now I’m seventeen years old. Yes, you are right we have not got a school uniform, but that does not mean that we can wear everything we want. I have to say that from the next year uniform will be included to our school and probably to all schools in Russia. Usually, when we finish high school we just prepare to continue studying in a university or etc. We do not do something unusual for our lives at the end of studying, so it’s only a little celebration for a reason of joining adult life.

       Most families got 3-4 members: a mum, a dad, a son and/or a daughter. But mostly 4. Here in Russia we usually have no private houses, I mean big houses on the private territory  with a  garden and a  loan. We have got high blocks of flats, with 5-9 storeys with more than 100 flats in each. 

  Best wishes,

 Alexey   

 

School Elite Celebration

Good afternoon, friends!

My name is Guzel and I'm writing to you for the first time. I can't wait to tell you  about the last school news! As you know, our school life is full of not only great pupils, but of imressive and unforgettable events too.Today I'm talking about the holiday which we call "School Elite", this event has become traditional for us. But this year everybody was breathtaken with  great perfomances and presentations of many awards! I can't find the right words to describe how fantastic and stunning it was! I even can deny that there were people who were not happy for all the winners! I also was lucky and it was really big honour for me to be a participant of this ceremony,  I also got my awards in two special nominations.

We have special nominators in different categories, such as : "Best of the Bests" "Sports Progress" "Best team work (which includes various competitions, sport games and other kinds of team commucation) " ,"Awards for Foreign Language Learners", "Nominations for individual subjects" and so on! 

The event took its place at our school auditorium, it's not very large but we had enough place for all the audience: pupils, teachers (including our Headmistress and her assistants), and childrens' parents. The show promised to be exclusive! And that it was! 

Amazing presenters started the show and their speech was really good, everybody loved it! Then the first nomanation was announced and all the winners of it got their awards. And I'm very proud to say that I was in the first nomination too which was called "The Intellectual Elite".  Actually we had many winners this year and it was really cool!

As you know there are 30 students in our class and 13 of them were awarded in this or that nomination. Our class teacher Valentina was very proud of her students.

All in all, we had great  time and, of course, it will stay in our memories for a long period  

I'd like to thank our school for such a magnificient show! I really hope that this tradition will exist for the  following years and everybody will enjoy it like we do!

Best wishes from Guzel!

Hello again!

Hi, dear friends from Argentina!
Thanks a lot for all your letters and pictures! Please, wait a little! We are working on some new letters for you. You know, we had some very important events in our school, so we were very busy. But now we'd like to tell you about those events and add some pictures too.
Take care!
Best wishes,
your friends from Russia

Hello Friends!

Our names are Micaela, Georgina and Erika. We are seventeen years old. We all live in a small town called San Francisco.
We are in fifth year at high school. As we are almost finishing, we are designing sweaters and t-shirts for our promotion. Then, we´re going to post some pics.
We were surprised when we saw your photo at school. You do not have to wear uniform! Here in Argentina, we do wear a uniform... Boring :)
At weekends, we usually like going for walks and have "mates" with our friends. On Saturday night, we always meet and have dinner together.
All of us have large families. As we live in the countryside our families are in charge of raising animals.

We would like to know more about you...
-What´s the tradition in your country / town when you finish high school?
-Have you got large families?
-How many students are there in your school?

Hope you letters! Keep in touch!!!
Your Argentinian friends...

Around Europe

      I`m so glad to write to you again, my dear friends from Argentina!

      As I know, you`ve just started your studying. I`m sure you have had a great rest. So, what can you tell us about your holidays?

      I have a lot of news for you. We have had spring holidays two weeks long. I spent the time travelling around Europe. I`ve visited so many countries, cities, famous historical and cultural centers, architectural and natural sights. For example, ruins of Pompeii in Napoli (Italy), Rome and residence of Pope in Vatican. I walked along the famous bridge in Luzern, Switzerland. But most of all I liked Germany, especially Baden-Baden, and Austria with its capital of Vienna. Both countries impressed me very much and brought unforgettable memories for the whole of my life.

       Well, I'm looking forward to your impressions about the holidays and I hope that you have had the same great time as I had. If you wish I can add some more pictures of my amazing journey.

Zhanna S.

Read our journal!

Hello, dear friends from Argentina!

We were very glad to receive your letters.

Actually, our vacation took place 2 weeks ago.  In the first half of the day we were studying our profile subjects at school. In the second part of the day everyone was doing what he or she wanted to.

We’d like to tell you about our amazing project. For 2 years we are issuing the journal  called «Polar Lights».  It consists of various topics about our occasions, travels  and so on. You can see it at the site of our school. Here is the e-address and the links, though, they are in Russian: 

http://www.sosh5-ugansk.narod.ru/

then click Это интересно   
then Школьный журнал на английском языке "Polar Lights" (выпуск 2)
or  Школьный журнал на английском языке "Polar Lights" (выпуск 1)

In both issues we wrote about our project with your school. Now we are working on the third issue of the journal and are going to write about you. So we ask you to read the previous issues and send your responses to us.
Best wishes,
Reseda

Hi, Argentinean friends!

Thanks for your letter, we are very glad to your responses. We like your photos very much.

We would like to wish you a successful school year and a good preparation for the exams.

You wrote about the video conference. We think that this is a good idea. But we have a big difference in time. Though,we think that this is not a problem at all. When it is morning in your country it is evening here in our place. I think we could come to school in the evening to take part in such a conference.

Let`s discuss and do it!

We are looking forward to your reply!

Your friend Yana