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I want to share my beautiful experience in school. I have been living here since 2013. My objective was to learn English, just the basics, because I thought it would be difficult.

But when I started school I was surprised. The teachers were very nice and helpful and funny. They made me change my goal of just learning the basics of the English language to getting my high-school diploma. It was a challenge for me just to graduate from ESL classes, but I did it. I achieved my first goal in a short time.

Now I'm working to get to my high-school diploma. Hopefully, I will persist and even to go to college.

Lamiae Belhaj

Sandy