Believing That You Can
current president is Mahmoud Abbas. I miss my country
because I miss my friends, my town, and my grandmother. I
want to visit my country next year.
Lina Nawabeet has been in the United States for only two months. She
wants to be a doctor. She is an ESOL student at Gary Adult High School.
Her teacher is Renuka Karunaratne.
My Favorite Place
Barcelona is a wonderful place. I feel fortunate to have
lived nine years in this unbeatable, seafront, full of lights,
historical, and artistic city. Barcelona is a multicultural city
where people of different races, religions, and cultures
enrich its history in an atmosphere of peace and harmony.
The works and buildings of Gaudi, The Baltllo House, La
Pedrera and the magnificent Sagrada Familia endow a
magic that surrounds you and makes you travel around
admiring Barcelona’s beauty. People from Barcelona and
Catalonia are known as Catalans. They are very nice and
love their city. On Sundays they like to go out on their bikes
with their children or go to the beach.
The Mediterranean Sea is quiet, clean, and warm.
Barcelona’s cuisine is world known and appreciated; there
are highly renowned chefs that bring up the level of the
wonderful Mediterranean diet. The most beautiful
experience of my life was having my precious son and I was
very fortunate that he was born in Barcelona. In honor of
this city I named my son Pol which is a Catalan name. Our
family circumstances now have led us to come to the United
States of America where we hope to be as happy as we were
in Barcelona, Spain.
Luz V. Koll is a student at Miami Senior Adult Educational Center,
Miami Dade County Public Schools, where she attends a vocational class
with Mrs. Ximena Lopez.
My Favorite Place
I have many favorite places, but I am going to choose
Tunquen, in my home country of Chile, because I have
amazing memories of that place from when I was a kid. I
have known this place for more than fifteen years when my
father bought a beautiful, wooded piece of land with a river,