My Goals

I have many hopes I would like to achieve. I need to improve my English, so I can speak English fluently. I need to pass the test and get a GED so I can get a good job. I want to go to college and be a nurse so I can help people. I need to get a driver's license so I can transport myself to my job. I need very much to be a US citizen so I can bring my family here. I want to go on a vacation to my country, Somalia. And also I want to have a career. Those are my dreams and hopes I want to come true.

Shamso

Wants and Needs

There are some things I want to do and some things I need to do. I need to speak English, write English, and read English. I need to get a GED and to graduate from college. I need to buy a computer. I need to get a good job in the future. I want to go on a vacation and visit my country. I want to buy a new car and save money for my retirement.

Beatriz Flores

Driver's License

There are some things I want to do. I want to go to the university. I need to get a driver's license and get a job I want. To complete school I need to improve my English. I need to buy a car. I want to work at a school for more experience.

Shaymaa

My Future Plans

There are some things I want to do and some things I need to do. I need to get a GED and then I need to get a job. I need to buy a laptop. I want to become a doctor and make a lot of money. I plan to buy a house. I want to visit California.

Samory

Recycle

What can we do to help the environment?
We can recycle the bottles, the cans; we can keep the water clean.
We can help clean the Mississippi river.
We can help clean the glass where the Mississippi river is. We can see that the water
is contain with stuff in it.

Alma

Recycle

What can we do to help the environment?

We can make less garbage. We should recycle soup cans, soda cans, newspapers, and mail. We can recycle plastic number one and two if it has a neck.

And that’s how we can help.

Hector

Recycle

What can we do to help the environment?
How can we save water? When you brush your teeth use a cup.
When you wash your car use a bouquet. Don’t throw oil in the ground.
Learn where to take oil and recycling. Don’t spend too much time in
the shower. That will help the environment.

Ruben

Recycle

What can we do to help the environment? We can work with the group called “Friends of the Mississippi River”. We shouldn’t spill coffee in the river. We shouldn’t put into the rivers and lakes bottles, paper, oil, and salt. We can make less garbage. We can recycle more plastic. If it has number one or two and it has a neck, we can recycle and that’s how we can help.

Tatsyana

What can we do to help the environment?

I think we can use recycling to help the environment. Perhaps every day we use bottled water, Pepsi, or coke. After we drink it we should put every bottle and can in a recycling box. Additionally, when we brush our teeth we must turn off the water. When we leave any room or class we must switch off the lights. These will help the environment.
We can save this world for the next generation.

Tolera

What can we do to help the environment?

We make too much garbage. We can recycle more soda and soup can. We should recycle newspapers and mail. We can recycle plastic number one and two, if it has a neck. That is how we can help reduce garbage.

Ngoan

What can we do to help the environment?

We can make the much garbage. We can recycle newspapers and mail. We can recycle plastic number one and two, if it has a neck, that’s how we can help reduce garbage.

Jwad

What can we do to help the environment?

We can work with the group called “Friends of the Mississippi River” We shouldn’t put phosphorus in the garden or grass or water. We shouldn’t put bottles, papers, plastic or glass in the rivers and lakes. We shouldn’t spill coffee and different drinks in the water. We can help to clean the land around rivers and lakes, and everywhere. We can pick up garbage next to the river. This will help the environment.

Iryna K.

What can we do to help the environment?

We can make little garbage. We can recycle more soup and soda cans. We should recycle news paper, and mail. We can recycle plastic number one and two if it has neck and that’s how we can help.

Alejandra

A Time to Remember

I remember the beach at the Baltic Sea. We were at the sea for five days in the fall time in the area of Poland, in the city of Kolobrzeg. My family was together very happy. Water in Baltic Sea is very cold. We play on the beach every day. We watched two museum and old street.

Viktor

A Time to Remember

Weekend at Duluth were wonderful.
Last weekend I and my friends were at Duluth.
Nature is very beautiful, and lake is very big.
We many walked. The weather was warm.

Natalja

A Time to Remember

A Time To Remember.
When I was young, my family moved to new City. We had a yard and many
beautiful flowers. My sister and I used to take many pictures and used to
walk around the yard. We used to play badminton. It was a great time.

Chi Nguyen

A Time to Remember

Dears: teachers
I living in the state there years ago move from costa rica for work but I think come back very soon because have family wearing for me to have more best
I am study English I need speak very well
And writing to.

Arlen

A Time to Remember

My best friend in school was Varvara. We were neighbors. Any time we did the home work together. Varvara and I were good friends. We were good students in mathematics. Every time when we did home work, we went leader in math. The teacher don’t believe as. One day he take our notebooks and told as nay you

Lyubov

A Time to Remember

On the first day of school.
I came the United States American from Vietnam four month ago. I began school to learn English after one month. On the first day of school, I had a hard time to learn English, because I don’t speak English very well. But the teacher her name is Collin help me to learn English as soon as better. That the woman is smart and the good teacher. In future I will try to learn English a lot of more.

Si Trong

Remember

Dear Nancy.
I live in the City of Blaine. My family rent an apartment near a supermarket and mall. My family has four people. We have two sons. My husband works 4 days a week and my two sons go to school every day. My first son is 19 years old. He finished class 12 in Blaine high school. My second is 9 years old. He is in class 3 in elementary. I work in a nails salon every day. We really love America and like it here because weather here is very good and people are very skilled.
Good bye. Have a good day.
Kieu Nguyen.

I Remember My Country

I remember the streets of my country. They were beautiful.
I remember when playing with my friends, I was happy.
I had two best friends. Their names were Sandy and Gaby.
In the evening I gone to grandfathers’ house, he said histories
And I dreamt with be big.

Guadalupe

The Trip

I remember when we went to the beach at the river [Nile]. There were many trees and a lot of people in every place the beach.
We brought with us too much food but we couldn’t be happy because we were board and quite. The people that were next to us were singing, telling jokes to each other and playing games, but they didn’t have any food. Then we invited them to our group. We sat together; we ate, laughed, sang, and played games. The fieldtrip wasn’t expected to be that fun, but it was a field trip I will never forget.

Wisal

Time to Remember

Diana and I were in high school class 12A together. We best friends. She was my girlfriend. In the class we often did crazy things to another friend’s table. The teacher was always warning me and her to behave. She ask me and her to go out of the class and to stand at the cafeteria four tarry minute. After I finished my high school I got married and Always wrote letters to my fried but they lost.

Otilia

Time to Remember

I was born in SOMALIA. My best friend was NAJAHA. We were in elementary school together. We played together. I love my family because they are very . Nice my parents are very funny. M y older brother hit me a lot

Amima

Wedding in My Country

When we want to get married the first thing we do is find a partner. Guys or girls see somebody they like at a market or other place. A guy starts to talk to a girl and if the girl starts to talk too, that means they will meet again. They can only meet outside. They can’t date in house or in apartment. After two or three months, they start talking about engagement. If they agree, a guy needs to go to a girl’s family to tell them he wants to marry their daughter. Her family tells him to come back two days or one week later. Her family starts to ask his friends or neighbors if he’s a good guy. If they say to him ok the guy starts to buy for the wedding. He might buy a bedroom and something for a girl. After that they make invitations and send them to friends and family. Three days before the wedding a guy’s family starts cooking for to have a wedding. They rent a wedding hall with hotel room on the day of the wedding. In the afternoon people start to come to the wedding hall and then the guy goes with his family and his friends to many cars for the people to take the girl from her family house. The guy wears a black suit and the girl wears a white dress. They drive around one hour and then go to wedding hall to meet the family. All night they go to hotel room the following day we can call them a husband and wife.

Jwad

Food Preference

I asked my classmates about their taste in foods.
Xuan goes to Vietnam restaurant. The menu is in Vietnamese. She likes to eat BUNBOHUE. HUTIUNAM VANJ, she doesn’t know the translation of it in English. Sometimes she doesn’t like to entertain guests at home because she likes to be outside and she goes to other friends.
Tolera likes to eat ice cream. His favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate.
Wisam likes to cook everyday for her family and guests. She prefers to cook barbecue. For her the weather is not a problem. If it snows Wisam makes barbecue inside.
Yodviga goes grocery shopping once a week because she is a fan of shopping.
Elena enjoys eating spicy food. She prefers Mexican food. She became a vegetarian 3 years ago. She doesn’t like to eat meat.
Svetlana knows how to make pizza by herself because it’s not difficult. She doesn’t go to restaurants because she doesn’t have money it is more expensive than cooking.
Jwad drinks coffee every day in the morning. He likes black coffee with sugar but no milk.
Lesly eats sandwich usually for lunch because it’s easy to make. She eats snacks during the day. She likes fruit because it’s very good for your body.
Yrina A goes to fast food restaurants for her children. She doesn’t like it but her children like it.

Lydie

Wedding in My Country

In our country we have traditional weddings. The man has to walk to the girl’s house. He must have money so he can give it to the people who keep the girl. When it is over the girl and guy have to walk to church. After church they go to the guy’s house and have a party. Then the married couple has to dance on one chair. Then some people steal the girl and hide her. The guy has to find her and pay some money. When everybody is eating, the guy and girl have to kiss. The length of their kissing means how long they are going to be together.

Liubovi

Wedding

In my native country the ceremonie traditional wedding is celebrated in churh . A lot of people are invited; famly, parents, children, and friends.
Before to the wedding, the man gives gifts to the woman.
After the gifts, the bride and the groom go to church to get married.

Markus

My Classmates Have Different Preferences in Food

My classmates have different preferences in food. Wisam sometimes likes to go to the restaurant with her family. Ivan likes to eat ice cream in café with his children. Ina likes to cook everyday for her family.
Leslie goes grocery shopping once a week because she goes with her husband. She wants her boys to try different kinds of food. Iryna enjoys eating spice food because she likes it a lot. Dina likes to cook “Four Seasons” pizza with mushrooms, bacon, onions, and other. Yadviga drinks coffee in the morning. Kabemba eats sandwich for lunch. Iryna (S) likes sweets, cake, chocolate, candy, and ice cream. Svetlana never goes to a restaurant because of money. Lydie likes to entertain guests at home. Iryna knows many good recipes in books, many salads, many different. Yadviga goes to fast food restaurants 1 time in week. Liubovi eats snacks during the day, every break time. Sergei is a vegetarian sometimes, no eat meat.

Elena