"Pygmalion"

Hello!

I would like to inform you, that our English drama circle will perform a play "Pygmalion" again.  It will take place on Tuesday, 20.11.2011 at 10.30 a.m. in the student`s club "Lys Mykyta". Everyone can come to see our performance! :)

Big Apple

My story just begins with curiosity, how do people live beyond the ocean?

More than 5 hundred years ago new continent was discovered, which got name America. It coursed a great wave of migration. For our ancestors it wasn’t just uninhabited land, it was a chance to escape from poverty, to broaden their horizons, to begin new life.

So, this summer I came to USA. I’m sure, every one of you knows program «Work and Travel».I got visa, got on the plane and my dream came true, I was in USA. I had never been to the US before, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was just looking for adventures…………and, yes, I found them.

I had to work. Down you can see a picture of my work place.

I used to sell cosmetics from the Dead Sea, and how you can guess my manager was jewish. I hated him, argued with him a lot, but after short time we were in good working relationship. Do you want to know why I was mad on him? Look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwcTbFka90&feature=related

Yes, It’s awful. I made people to buy. I stopped, did presentation, bargain with them. I was taught how to sell, how to speak, how to take delight in my job, how to be persisted. My manager just killed a little shy girl who was inside me. I became more confident, assertive. It was a nice school, but I couldn’t stand it. I said: «Thank you» and left.

I spent most of my trip in small city Trumbull, the state of Connecticut , because of my work. But I wanted to see something that really would be able to impress me, and, of course, I went to NYC.

Yes, I was surprised at how dirty the streets were. I hadn’t expected streets of NY to be in such bad condition! I also hadn’t expected to see so many homeless people, but there are a lot of poor people in NY.

But still, nevertheless, New York is really amazing, especially when you see the whole city from the top of the Empire Building…..

….when you are in Central park or just in Manhattan.

I couldn’t understand, how people had managed to build it. Manhattan is island, which holds all that skyscrapers, is washed by rivers, channels and connected with other parts of NY by bridges. Sometimes it just scares.

Everything was good, I travelled, enjoyed my being in New York, had fun, but suddenly I heard a bad news: the hurricane Irene was coming on Manhattan. What was strange, I didn’t except it seriously. For me it was like movie where I was the main character;) But not for my mum, she made me to escape and went to my aunt in NJ. I haven’t seen her since my childhood. The world is really too small. Fortunately, Hurricane didn’t come to us, it dispelled.

I spent in America 3 months, I made a lot of friends, visited interesting places, such as…..

Museum Madame Tussauds. NYC

Bronx zoo

I learned american tradition, get acquaintance with their culture, and had already accustomed to their way of living. I did what I wanted to do, so I came home pleased and with a lot of impression.