Fiodar

I want to study English: write, read, and speak well. I want to go to study in college, and to have a good profession. Then I will look for a good job, because I’m dreaming of buying a house and a new car. When I can have this, I will travel around the U.S in my new car.

Lesly

My Favorite Place

My favorite place is my bedroom. The walls in it are of blue color, like the sky. I like the bed, because it is medium size. I also like the new cabinets. I like the closet, it is of medium size. However, I can always choose my clothes in it very easily. There is a in a shape of a fish. My baby sleeps and relaxes in the bedroom. I change his clothes every day. I talk with my husband about the problems. I take care of my baby every day. My mother cleans the bedroom every other day.

THIEN

My dream is to get a good job; and then have a small house. I’m a new immigrant here; and I need some money for my family (four members). I would like to get a job as a mechanic or a bus driver because I had about 30 years of experience as the truck driver in my country. I hope somebody is going to help me find a good job. I want to learn English too; because it’s going to help me very much in my future.

I have a dream. My dream is to speak better English. If I speak and understand English, I can talk with a lot of people and go anywhere. I can also get a better job. Right now my English is very bad. I hope I will speak, listen, and write English very well.

Kim

My Dream

My dream is to graduate from the University of Architecture, because it’s very interesting for me. Then I can get a good job. And it will be good for my family (mother and father).

When I have a family of my own, I want to have a good family with my wife and children. I want to have happiness in my family. It’s good if you want to go to work in the morning, and want to go home after work. It’s very good when somebody understands you and your problems.

Sergey S

My Favorite Place

My favorite place was a big, old city with two million people, who lives there. The name of that city is “Rostov on don”. I liked that city, because I spent a lot of time there. I walked in the center of the city with my friends. I liked looking at the military parade.

There city passing a very long river, which located almost via half country. I liked to look at many boats and ships there, also I liked fishing There. I met there with my friends too. There is a big beautiful bridge via that river. In the center of that city is a big fountain. Around the there are a lot of benches. At that place there were always a lot of friendly people. There was a big park, which called “Park Viktora Cherivichkina”. Near was located another park, close to college. There park called “The Park Name’s Gorkogo”.

These parks were very big. There were lot of monuments, fountains, benches and game places for children. Almost all these monuments told about the second war. There in these parks there was always a big noise, because a lot of tourists were there. I liked arriving there because I spent my best time there, and I left there my young age.

I’m often thinking about that city, because too much important things happened there for me. Although, if I will not go there in future three years, I couldn’t leave my mind about that city. If I knew more English, I could be tell you more about my favorite place.

VLADIMIR P.

Anna Covliuc

March 28, 2008

Things I Like to Do

I want to tell you about my hobbies.

I really like to cook breakfast, dinner and lunch for my parents. When we are done, I clean a table and wash dishes. I cook different food and beverages. My parents don’t like to eat in restaurant, cafes or cafeterias.

My second thing I admire is traveling to other countries for a long time. When I was little girl, I often travelled by train and by boat. I flew on the airplane only one time from Moldova to Minnesota in August 16, 2006. I like to drive fast, because it is fun for me. I would like to have a Jeep car and I like to drive for a long time at night. My father doesn’t like when I drive fast. It makes him nervous. Besides I walk with my father every evening. I don’t live far from Cub Foods and Aldy, so I walk to those grocery stories, I walked a lot in my country; and it is very good for me.

Sometimes I watch TV at night. I like to watch funny movies. I don’t like to watch sports. Sometimes I watch news with my parents. I enjoy Russian movies with Russian translation on the Internet.

Cooking, driving and watching TV are the things I enjoy.

“Russian Woman’s World”

“Borsh”

Russian

Margarita Polyakova

In my country there are many different holidays, and people cook usually special celebration’s food for family, friends, and colleagues.

But now I’ll talk about famous Russian food, which we don’t cook for holidays, but for every day.

About this recipe I know from my Mom. This kind of food is traditional Russian food and everybody loves it. Its name is ‘Borsh’.

Preparation Time: 20 minutes.

Cooking Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes.

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

3 liters water + 1 pound meat

½ pound potato

½ cabbage

2 carrot

2 carrot

½ onion

Dill

Salt by taste

Preparation:

In cool water, you need to put slices of meat and to boil one hour.

In this time it is necessary to peel skin from potatoes, carrots, onions, and cabbage.

Potatoes need to be sliced and boiled 3 minutes.

Then grate onions, carrots, and tomatoes to fry with oil within 10 minutes on the pan.

Then fry vegetables to put in the boiling water with meat and to add dill, pepper and salt by taste and through 3 minutes turn off.

Ready! Cook ‘Borsh’ with pleasure, I think you’ll be very glad to eat this nice food!

Cook’s tip: Serve it with mayonnaise and eat hot!

RASPBERRY RICE CAKE

Arlys Hansen
Dayton Hudson Central

INGREDIENTS
18 ½ ounce package white cake mix with pudding
3 ounce package raspberry flavor gelatin
10 ounce package frozen raspberries, thawed (undrained)
4 eggs
½ cup vegetable oil
¼ cup hot water

FROSTING
10 ounce package frozen raspberries, thawed (undrained)
12 ounce carton frozen whipped topping, thawed


HOW TO PREPARE
Heat oven to 350F. Grease and flour 9x13x2 inch pan. In large bowl, combine dry cake mix and gelatin. Add raspberries with juice, eggs, oil and water; beat until well blended, about 3 minutes. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until done—cool.

For frosting, in small bowl, fold raspberries and juice into whipped topping. Spread over cake. Refrigerated 2 hours. 15 servings.

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Cynthia Torres

03/12/08

A Childhood Memory

My favorite childhood memory, I have 1 sister, and 1 brother. I was living in Mexico City. I remember the vacation to the beach.

All the years my parents wanted this to be a great vacation, I remember the beautiful hotel, the big pool, the ocean, my sister and brother playing all day in the pool.

I was really excited because I enjoyed the food very much; we were eating fish, shrimp, octopus, oyster and ice cream.

I really wanted to have these moments now with my son, my husband and my daughter.

THAI FOOD

TOM –YAM-KUNG

THAILAND

Today I introduce a Thai recipe: TOM-YAM-KUNG or Hot and sour soup. They are called in Thailand. I always cook TOM-YAM-KUNG, and when I cook that soup, I have to look for the fresh of shrimp or frozen its good test.

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 45 minutes

Ingredients (serves 2-5 people)

10-15 shrimp

2 cups water

1 stalk (slice) lemon grass

½ chopped red onion

3 green onions

2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1 tsp salt

2 tbsp coconut milk (optional)

2 hot peppers

Preparation

Clean shrimp and drain, take some shrimp core out.

While boil water and you are waiting for the water to boil.

Put slice lemon grass and red onion to the boiling water.

Add the salt and boil them for about 5 minutes.

After that put the shrimp and boil them about 2 minutes and turn stove off.

Put fresh lemon juice, green onion, and hot pepper.

Stir in coconut milk. (optional)

Cook’s Tip: Turn off stove when put fresh lemon juice, green onion, and hot pepper.

Do not cook the shrimp for more than 2 minutes.

Juliett Paul

2/26/08

My Childhood Memory in Sierra Leone

When I was 10 years old, my mom had a baby boy. I used to help my mom with my younger brother. That was my first experience I had caring for a young baby boy. My mother can go to work and my grandmother and I always took care of the baby. The baby cried a lot. But I was happy to take care of him, because I was interested in him. I used to feed him with his feeding bottle. He finished four bottles of milk before my mom came. My mom would return home from work in the evening. My baby brother’s name was Phillip.

My Childhood by Dzmitry

Dzmitry

3/12/08

A CHILDHOOD MEMORY

I would like to tell you about my first day in school.

When I was six years old, I went to school for the first time. It was the 1^st of September at 7:30 am.

I woke up and I wore black pants and a white shirt, took the flowers and went to school with my mother. Everybody went to school with their mothers on the first day. My school was 0.1 mile from my house.

When I came to school I had a meeting with my teacher and with my classmates. After that we went to class. We had a party.

After that, we had a party with the whole school. Someone was singing for us and older students showed a comedy story for us. It was a good day in my life. I will remember this memory all my life.

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