Essay No.
1
An exchange year brings many new challenges. Describe an
experience in the past 2-3 years that you think will help you succeed
on an exchange program
My life has changed for the better in the last two years. I've learned a
lot in life. I grew up cause my attitude towards life has changed. I
started to work hard to reach my goals. I have many plans and goals
for the future. My best experience was the Lyceum exam. Which
started a year ago. I was afraid that I would fail. Now everything has
ended successfully. I entered one of the best language lyceums in our
city. Because of this I am very happy, like my parents. However, at first
everything were not so good. My english was terrible, I knew nothing
and could hardly say a few word. I started by improving my grammar
and in the same year I improved my level of English. These were my
first steps, but I spent many hours and days. Despite the great stress
and overwork, I did not give up because I was told that there is no
result without hard work. Later everything became easy and simple. In
the end, I learned a lot, during this period of my life that I will
remember forever.
Essay No. 2
Describe a time in the past two years when you were not successful at
something outside of school. What did you do? What did you learn?
In the past 2 years I wanted to be a professional football player. My
dream was to play in the famous European football leagues and to be a
legend of this sport. However, it has remained a dream. Firstly, I
wanted to play in the local football academy, they watched my game
and denied. Because, my age was greater than the ages of other
players. After unsuccessful opportunity for entering to the academy, I
decided to play in our ground near our home and improve my skills.
That one was a good idea, I was very inspired, some days I played
football until late nights. It really helped me to improve my skills, but
it spent many days and hours. In those times I stopped doing my
homework, so my marks got worse and worse, I even missed lessons. I
had kept my hobby a secret from my parents cause that, I was afraid
that they would not support my hobby. Once my parents had come to
school, they saw my marks. Moreover, they were angry, I told them my
dreams and explained them, why my marks were terrible. They had
explained to me that this hobby had no future. I was young, I did not
want to understand. My dreams were broken plus, I was very upset. In
the following week they introduced me with my tutor, she gave me a lot
of motivation for studying English, I was happy when she told me about
FLEX program and this words were enough for learning English. I made
my main decision which became right. I understand that English is my
future. Now I am very happy, because it was the best way I am very
grateful for my parents and it was the best decision I had ever had.
Essay No. 3
Describe a recent time when your opinion was different from that of
your friends. What did you do? Why?
Last year a new student came to our class. It was difficult him to got on well with classmates as
well teachers. It was clearly visible. Everybody disrespected, and did not like him. I wanted to
support, and help him in those hard times. The leading cause of why everybody disrespected
him, were his terrible grades and his weakness. In other words he was not strong enough. All
students in our class were against me, because, I decided to be in friendship with him.
Moreover, my classmates began disrespecting me, and some of them stopped talking with me.
Later studying in school became very difficult, because everybody disliked me besides the
newcomer. I told them without a doubt: A person is not judged by his grades, but also by his
heart and soul. It was very difficult to came out against the whole class, therefore I was great
frighted and cried. In those hard times only new came student supported me, and my friendship
with him got strong. Finally, some children understood, that he was better than they expected,
so he became theirs best friend. I was glad, because the story finished with happy end. My
friends began communicating with me and apologized. And further, I proved everybody that
nobody can judge a person without recognizing him.
