"They have become some of my best friends!"

Dear Rayshan-apa and Zhanna!

Before I started to write this letter to you, I was thinking about which language to choose. I decided it is kind of easier to write in English right now..=)

I am writing to you with a very strong feeling of gratefulness.

My school year is over. And my year in America almost done, but I have been happy the whole year that I was in the CETUSA program. Thank you very much for helping me during my academic year. I got a wonderful host family. They have become some of my best friends! They are actually going to visit me this August! I am really excited to show them our country!

I finished the school with 4.00 GPA. I got A’s in all of my classes, including AP chemestry and BC calculus. I also got a couple awards this year. We had an award banquet and I was surprised how many awards I got. (BC calculus, social studies, principal, and presedential awards). I think that our Kazakh education helped me a lot, we have really strong school in our country!

Let me know how are you doing? How are the new students? If any of them have questions about American schools or the CETUSA program, I would be more than happy to answer them.

Take care.

Anita