कज़ाख लड़की का अमेरिकी सपना
Hey there! Hope you are having a beautiful day! If you’re not, I bet you, this essay will cheer you up!
I am Alua, a little dreamy girl from small town in Kazakhstan and also bold woman who is getting all her dreams come true. I’ve been living in Earth Planet for almost 18 years by now. In this essay I would like to share my own story about a small and funny trip and my fare thoughts about everything!
How the things got started
When I was at elementary school my relatives used to travel all over the world, they have seen the oceans, seas and mountains. 11 year old me was so interested in it and asked my parents to see the lake. I couldn’t ask for anything else. And my parents couldn’t afford anything better, because they were literally broke.
When the summer came my parents told me that we’re going to Issyk kul .
That’s a mesmerising lake located in Kyrgyzstan. So that was my first time when I was on cloud nine and felt like a cool girl from Vogue who is travelling to “foreign” countries.
We were group of 6 people and used to live in yurt with other travellers for almost 14 days. I was browsing so many stores with my mom without buying anything and we were hanging around enjoying the local food and city. In the evenings we were swimming in the lake and just appreciating the sparkling water. Once upon a time, in early morning, I thought about going to the lake without my phone. I grabbed my book, hat and sheet to relax and chill out on the coast. After 2 hours of having a rest I was thinking about getting back to the yurt to eat my breakfast. But I forgot the way back:)
I was stressed as hell, walking around big coast just to find my parents , but they didn’t appear. I didn’t remember the name of the street, or the yurt number. But
I found the best way how to find my parents.
Nah, I wasn’t waiting for them on the coast, anyway I entered all yurts and asked if there were my siblings or parents. Finally, I could find them by their flip-flops after 2 hours of searching! And you guess what?! I met a bunch of lifeguards who were searching for me too, cause my family thought I got drowned. In the end I got a big slap from my mom.
It all might sound ridiculous, but actually I was living the best part of my childhood and I was definitely the happiest person in the world.
Why I decided to participate in Work and Travel program?
When I was studying at 2nd grade of elementary school I was lucky to have a teacher who was smart, very kind and soft to kids. By the way, my teacher was from America and she had a spectacular american accent. She taught us how to sing the alphabet like “A-B-C-D-E-F-G”... I sang it with her and she was teaching us for some basic words in English, but I could not understand the single word. Can you imagine?! American girl who speaks only English and does not understand kazakh or russian and kids who don’t know her language, holy crap! Anyway, I was having fun and enjoying my English classes.
I remember that I was dreaming how I will speak English fluent and teach it to others. It turned out that I got my IELTS certificate and got a job as an English
Teacher and now I have so many lovely students, that’s what I am passionate about!
At high school I found the page of blogger Marina Mogilko and discovered such a stunning city San-Francisco and that became my dream city. 50 states of
America seem like a dream and my future destination for summer of 2023.
Endless opportunities, feeling of self-confidence, ambitions and business streak are all about America!
I’ve been carrying that dream for 7 years and I hope I will reach all my goals related to the United States through Work and Travel program.
How can I help my country to grow by participating in W&T program?
The thing is that Exchange program students give a great influence on local students. I think this statement is pretty understandable for well-educated people, cause they know the importance of diversity. To have a society where all students are motivated to succeed, travel all over the world, to discover new areas for themselves and study hard and work smart is the best thing to have in
Kazakhstan. Our country is developing year by year, so skilled, diverse and dedicated students are the main means through which kazakhstani universities achieve their organizational goals. I mean it’s vital to understand how essential to have an exchange background students for our future educational system and to have a proper mindset for our future leaders.
How Work and Travel program will help my future career ?
Frankly speaking, nowadays people who are seeking education want to learn from professional teachers who have proper backgrounds and experience in their fields. As a future teacher I would like to go to the USA to work there, to gain experience of living in that country, to exchange my culture and indeed, improve my English. I love American accent so much and I love American people as well, also I have a blog in Instagram where I teach English free and
I’d love to create a content for my blog from different parts of the world.
That’s exactly gonna be the best part of my career growth.
How exchange programs will look like in future? My assumptions.
I’m not a clairvoyant but I’m pretty sure that exchange programs in future are gonna be extremely popular, affordable and useful for every single person in our Earth Planet. So we all have to try our best to make it happen very soon.
Because I have no doubts that this is worthy.
Thank you so much for your attention and I hope you enjoyed this essay!
Best regards, Alua Abdraliyeva!