Thank You

DEAR: MOM
Thank you for everything because you are my friend and I can to talk with you when I need help or when I need advice in my life.

With love ALEJANDRA.
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SARA
I want to thank you for being here with me.
When I always need someone to carry me in
My bad days and for bean such a good friend…
I REALLY THANK YOU SO MUCH
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Dear Keng,
I would like to say “thank you for you “. That you always fix my car and do everything I want. You are the wonderful husband in my heart. Thank you, my sweetheart.
Love baby
Ka Chang
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Dear all the teachers in the Metro North ESL,

I would like to say thank you to all of my teachers. For the long time I had been in this school. Teachers helped me a lot in the class.

Again, I want to say thank you very much to all my teachers.


Kim Nguyen
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Dear Hanna.
Thank you for being wonderful daughter. Thank you for helping me cook, clean, keep your room organize and being smartest in a class. I am so proud of you. I love you!

Oksana
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Dear Manuel,

Thank you for feeding my dog when I was In Mexico. I will do the same for you.
Thank you so much.

Ruben Pina
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Dear Sarah Tomme,

Thank you
for take my
case, and
finding time
to meet me on
weekend.

From : Silvia
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Dear Nataliay

Thank you. You are a really good mother and a nice wife for me.

With love your Vladimir

My Winter Break

I have an interesting story. My family and I went shopping in search of gifts. When we selected gifts and went to the checkout, we saw that, we forgot our credit card at home. We wanted to leave everything there. The woman who stood behind us in line decided to pay for us. We wanted to give her the money back but she refused and said, “Merry Christmas!” We left the supermarket very happy. This was a very good day!

Iryna R.

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I like holidays, especially Christmas. This winter break I was sick. But I still have very good memories about this holiday’s season.
When I moved to America I was surprised by bright lights and sings. I really liked this. But when Christmas came I was shocked! I am grateful to American people for making this holiday so bright, colorful and beautiful. I love Christmas decorations. In our neighborhood there is a special house. I think the owners of this house are nice people because their house looked like a fairytale at Christmas. There was Santa Claus, Disney characters, reindeer, Christmas trees, and lots and lots of bright colorful lights. It was magnificent! I walked by this house and enjoyed the view many times.
I like Christmas decorations because it brings me joy and happiness.

Iryna K.

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My winter break was very interesting. I felt very happy because I went shopping, celebrated New Year together with my friend. I cooked Lebanon food and Iraqi food. On New Year’s Day was birthday my husband. My son and I went to a dollars store to buy dishes, spoons, forks for the party. My son was very happy. Next day my husband gave me gifts. It was nice to spent time together.
At 5:00PM I went to put on makeup. After I went to the kitchen to make coffee, watch TV, listen to music, dance together. I spent very nice time with my friend. Our children played games on the computer. At 8:00PM we set the table and put our food on the table.
We gathered together in the room to eat dinner. During the dinner I took a picture for them.
After the dinner was over I went to wash to dishes and make some tea.
They stayed to watch TV. When the clock struck 12, I didn’t hear it. Three minutes later I saw my
Clock read 12:30 AM. Everybody said that it went fast but everyone wished to each other happy
New Year. The clock read 3:00AM and our children to bed but they didn’t want sleep to yet.
We took our children to bed but they didn’t want to sleep because they wanted to play more. The next day we woke up and made breakfast. We ate together and drank juice. I made a wish
for a life and to go to my country to celebrate it with my family.

Jamila

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I like December. There are 3 birthdays. December first we celebrated Emily’s birthday with the
Family. Then we celebrated Christmas and Liza’s birthday. We cooked for the holidays and
Birthdays the same time. Then came New Year and another birthday. This time it was
David’s birthday. We celebrated with the whole family, giving presents to each other,
watching TV, waiting for Jesus, and waiting for the holiday and birthday. I love my
family and I love December.

Liubovi

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I had a good winter break on Christmas day. I had a big family get together. We cooked a lot of food and we ate. We played the blackjack game for fun. All the children talked with other and played some games. We talked and some people sang. At 10:00 p.m. my brother in law gave some toys and candies for my children. They were very happy. We played games until 4:30 a.m. and then we went to bed. Next morning we woke up late.

Ngoan

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I had a good winter break. The first day of New Year was Saturday. When I woke up in the morning I started cooking because I had new friend coming over to my house when they came at 3; pm set down to eat . They liked my food. Then we talked about Iraq. My older son had meeting with the boy scouts. The rest of the family went to the theater to watch a new movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks. My kids liked the movie then we went home and rested.

Wisam

My Winter Break

My winter holidays were wonderful. I was glad to spend more time with my family. We were preparing for the holidays . My daughter helped me cook the cake . Before the holidays I received a letter from Anoka County to come and get help for children in the form of gifts for the holidays . To our surprise, we received many things : dolls , toy cars, games and even a bicycle that my daughter wanted . The children were very happy. We are so grateful to those who are engaged in charity . On Christmas and New Year , we met with the family . The following days, visitors came to us , or we went to visit friends.

Elena

My Winter Break

My winter break was short but fun. I spent Christmas with my family and we had a party with many friends and lots of food. My family and I went skiing; and it was great.
I celebrated New Year at my friend’s house where we had a little party.
My winter break was also amazing because we had great presents and everything was nice.
The presents were the best part: my husband got a beautiful watch and a nice perfume.
I got some clothes and perfume, and my kids got a lot of toys.
This made me very happy.

Dina

My Roots

I am Yelena from Kazakhstan. I am Russian. The three things I Like best about my culture are language, religion and food.
First this is language. My mother and father speak only on Russian. My language is Russian.
Second this is religion. I respect my parents and their religion. My parents are Christian. With childhood I grew up in a Christian family.
Third this is food. My mother taught me how to cook traditional food. I like it when my mother cooked. Now I cook for my husband and my husband like traditional food. Usually when I don’t know or don’t remember a recipe, I call my mother.
I like my roots.

Yelena

My Russian Roots

I’m Vladimir and I’m from Russia. Three things that I like about my culture are Christian religion, tradition clothes and language. A lot of people come to church. Most of Russian people wearing national clothes to carnival like an American. I’m glad to keep my language and speak on it with my kids or other people who speak Russian language. This are things I like from Russia.

Vladimir

My Roots

I am Trang Tran from Vietnam. Three things I like the best about my culture are language, food, and clothes. First, my language is very easy to speak and to listen to for me. Second, my favorite food is eggroll. In my country they eat rice, fish and vegetables every day. Third one, is clothes, every student and teacher wear all “ao dai” and in the wedding they wear “ao dai” too. When they wear that is looks very beautiful. That is culture in Vietnam.

Trang

My Roots

I am Valeriu Bodrug from Moldova. Three things about my culture; Respect my parent and all people because is important for me and my children. In my country education is more important for all people because when they moving or traveling from other country it’s easy. In my country people like and traditional music and dance. People wear traditional clothes and singing traditional music.

Valeriu

My Belarussian Roots

My name is Vadim. I am from Belarus, a country in the middle of Europe. Three things that I like about my country are food, religion and history.
First, religion is a big part of my life and my family. My religion is very old and came to me from my parents. I would like to teach that to my children too.
Second, traditional food is very important. I’d like to cook for my friends and my family.
Third, history of my country is very important. I like my country which has thousands of years of history. I like the city in which I was born. It’s the capital of Belarus and a very beautiful city.
I want to teach my children these important things about my culture.

Vadim

My Best Friend

I have two good friends. They share some of the same personal qualities. One characteristic I like about my friends is that they are responsibility.
One friend is Safaa, he is a very nice friend, I am very sad now because he is dead. Safaa had a honest heart. He worked with me on the trade and helped together on all business. I remembered his words in the hard work in my life that are most valuable, love, friend, confidence. My other friend is Hassan, He lives now in Jordan. He is a very nice friend, He has same characteristic qualities with me and Safaa, before helped me in our business and now he looked my business in Iraq alone because I can’t travel to Iraq in this time. He take care for my job in Iraq.
I value my two friends who are both my fortune, they are my pride in this life.

Raad

My Favorite Place

In my house I have a special place. It is my yard. Every morning I go there to look at the green trees.
I see the flowers opening and some yellow butterflies. They fly and sit on the flowers. I hear birds singing in the trees. I smell the green grass and I feel the fresh air.
When the winter is over and spring comes, I and my husband work in the yard. We plant flowers, tomatoes, and vegetables. We fix some place, so that they look clean and beautiful. Every weekend I go to see them grow, and I am very happy.
The yard is my favorite place because when I am tired of hearing noises on TV, I walk around my yard. I take a deep breath of fresh air. The yard is also important for my family. My children like to play there on weekend.

Kim

My Story

My name is Ka Chang and I come from Thailand but my language is Hmong. Three things I like very much in my culture are my culture music kwv txhiaj, the house and great food call papaya salad.
Music kwv txhiaj is a music for our culture and long, long time ago and we still sing it now. The second is the house. It’s a small house of Hmong people lived in. The house made by trees and bamboos. The third one is a very great food papaya salad. When I eat it make me feel good it very spicy but very good.
My conclusion is I still use it now and I’ll teach my children when they are growing. I hope they’ll like it, too.

Ka

My Dream

First what l want to do is to learn to write and read English. Second, l would like to get my GED then l can go to college. After college l can study to become a nurse. After nursing, l could continue studying to be a doctor. I would like to be a doctor. l like to help people. My hope is to be a nurse or doctor, especially to help the people in Africa.
I‘ve always had that dream since l was little. God give me a dream l want to do l know l live a difficult life but l am trying to make my dream come true.

Abang

Only One Smile

I’m going to tell a story about a person. Her name is Thanh. She’s a pharmacist in a pharmacy. It had a regular customer. Her name was “ Smiley “. She was 80 years old. She had to move in her wheelchair after an accident. She has many illnesses, so people were worried about her. When she came to the pharmacy, Thanh was always smiley and sympathized with her because she was alone at the nursing home. Her husband and son died after that accident.
Last Thanksving, she came to give Thanh a gift and card. Thanh read it and cried. The letter said:
Dear Thanh,
My name’s Smiley, but life doesn’t “ smile “at me at all. Many times I wanted to kill myself, until the day I met you in this pharmacy. You are the only person who always smiles at me, after the death of my husband and son. You made me feel happy and help me keep on living. I want to take the this Thanksgiving holiday to say “ Thank you. “.
Thank you very much, for your smile…”
Thanh didn’t think that

Xuan

Winter
snowy and cloudy
rainy, windy, foggy
jacket, scarf, grass, flower
swim, eat ice cream, play tennis
sunny and hot
Summer

Jamila
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Teacher
smart and intelligent
teach, explain, understand students
school, papers, homework, school bus
listen, write, late
good and bad
Student

Iryna
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Winter
cloudy and white
play with snowballs, eat icicles, shovel snow
snowflakes, sled, barbeques, sandals
get a sun tan, go to a park, play with children outside
sunny and rainy
Summer

Dina
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Child
submissive and smart
help brothers, study well, and make his bed
boy, girl, woman, wife
love children, make meals, clean house
loving and healthy
Mother

Dina
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Winter!
snowy and beautiful
drink hot chocolate
celebrate holidays, go sledding, snow pants, snowshoes, sandals, shorts
eat ice-cream, drink juice, play tennis
sunny and warm
Summer!

Irina R.
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Kids
happy, funny
laugh, play, sleep
son, daughter, father, mother
work, drive, cook
tired, relaxed
Adult

Liubovi