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Hello everyone, my name is Lek . I’m from Thailand I’m glad and excited to be starting at Norquest . I hope I use from this opportunity and learn a lot .

This summer, I take my kids out to the park, but not very often. I live mostly in an apartment. I don’t have any family here, so I don’t know many places.

My goal in this study is to achieve success in knowledge, things in Canada, writing,listening,speaking and understanding. I hope that this online class will help me practice my English more.

Thanks, Lek

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Hello, everyone. My name is Xuefeng Yi. I am very glad to join this course.

This summer I went to Yantai, a beautiful city in China, where I was born.We went to the beach, and when the tide went out, you could dig up some shellfish ,it was a very happy process.

In this course, I set a goal to improve my speaking and listening skills. I hope that by the end of the course, I can express myself fluently and understand more conversations without translation.

See you in class.

Xuefeng Yi

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Hi Everyone,

My name is Lanie. I'm happy to start the new term this fall and meet all new and old classmates.

I had a good summer vacation with my family, We went to Drumheller, Alberta, and visited my sister-in-law in Calgary. I enjoy spending time with my children during their school breaks and traveling with them to different places in Canada.

This term my SMART goal is to spend 30 minutes reading in the NORQUEST library based on my CLB level so I can understand the words easily and I will write down some unfamiliar words and look up to Longman Dictionary to add in my vocabulary.

I am looking forward to meeting everyone and practicing together our language skills on breakout room.

Lanie

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Hi everyone my name is Yassin and I'm delighted to start my first online class for English language with you.

In this summer I couldn't go out of Edmonton because I didn't have enough time due to the work schedule to visit places in my mind like Banff or Vancouver , but I used every single free minute that I got having fun with my friends .

In terms of my goal I have a plan to improve my speaking and writing skills using different type of websites and youtube channels ,in addition to communicating with my coworkers in order to have better career job.

I'm looking forward to meeting all of you to have fun and benefit from each other.

Yassin

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Hello everyone!

My name is Valeriia. It's my third term at Norquest College and the second one with Shiran, so I already know that it will be interesting. Last term I was a little bit busy with my theoretical exam for a hairdresser licence, but this term I believe I could pay more attention to additional information and exercises such as Grammar Monster etc. It's my SMART goal for this term.

My summer was pretty busy with different papers works but despite that, we found time for a journey to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. My kids were so happy and even me and my husband had an excellent time. I recommended that all families should go there.

Valeriia

PS In this photo is not me ;)

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Hello everyone, my name is Diana Silva, I am from Colombia. Back to study this term at Norquest.

This summer I went to Kelowna with some friends and spent a week visiting different lake beaches and camping. I visited some vineyards and it was fun.

I have set a goal: to improve my speaking by speaking with other students and participating in class.

I look forward to learning with all of you.

Diana Silva

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Hello everyone, my name is Teddy . I'm very excited to be with all of you in this new term at NorQuest college.

During summer break, I was too busy at home cooking ,cleaning my house doing laundry and taking care for my handsome boy.

This term I set a goals to improve my reading and writing .

I wish to read one book every sing day and writing two paragraph per day.

I trust this term will be successful by God's grace with my own commitment to achieve my goals.

Teddy N.

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This summer I visited Jasper National Park twice with my family and and celebrate my birthday in Kelowna.

I have a goal to improve my speaking skills in this term.

I'm going to spend 20 minutes every day to learning new words, make new sentences, watch movies with subtitles.

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone!

Krystyna

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Hi everybody, my name is Sumaira.I'm exited to learn and improve my English, and become fluent in speaking it!

This Summer my family and I went to Banff National Park.We had a fun and amazing time spending time with each other and we all loved it. :)

I want to improve my English so I can be fluent in speaking it and to improve my writing, speaking, reading and more! :D

I hope this course will help me improve my English and help me fix my communication skills!I'm exited to be in this course with all of you guys! ;)

Sumaira

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Hi everyone! My name is Viktor. I'm from Ukraine. I arrived in Canada with my family 9 month ago. This is my second course in NorQuest College and I'm happy to study and develop my skills here. I very like NorQuest College because people from many countries study here and it's very interesting to communicate with them.

This summer my family and my sister's family visited Jasper National Park. It was very exciting and beautiful. The kids especially liked it when we saw the bear ).

In this cours I want to improve my speaking and listening skills. It's very important for me because I want to fiind a good job and communicate with dafferent people. For this I 'll try to speak with my wife and son in English for one or two hours every day. Maybe we'll change topics of conversation every two days. I'll also watch movies in English with subtitles to improve my listening and reading skills. I'll write messages in the family and classmates groups in English every day. I want to stop translating in my head from Ukrainian to English to say something. I need more practice and I'll do it more often.

Thank you for understanding and I'm glad to meet you !

Best regards,

Viktor

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My name is Hawa. I am so excited for the new term. My goal this term is to improve my English skills.

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Hello, Teacher and my class mates

My name is Selamawit I am married and I have two kids and I enjoyed this summer with my kids and our friends we went to park, play ground and also water park.

My children were so funny times with their friends me and my friends had also a good coffee time as our cultural coffee ceremony, It was amazing summer really and I have also volunteering program in homecare's that also a good thing for me.

It was my summer

I am so happy to this class I have a goal from this session specially I want to improve speaking, listening and writing.

thank you

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Hello everyone.My name is Serhey. I am from Ukraine. I have been in Canada for about two years.

I am happy to continue my studies at NorQest College.This term, I would like to improve my speaking and writing skills, as well as improve my reading skills.

The summer vacation was busy, but we managed to visit Banff National Park.

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Hello everyone! My name is Serhii, and I'm from Ukraine. I have been living in Edmonton for 1 year. This is my first English language course.

This summer, my family and I visited Yoho National Park. We enjoyed it and were amazed by the landscapes.

I plan to achieve CLB-5 in at least 2 speaking tasks this semester. I will study the language for 6 hours in college and at least 1 hour a week myself to better integrate into Canadian society.

Kind regards

Serhii

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Hello,

My name is Alaa Al-Jubouri. I am from Baghdad, Iraq. I have two beautiful daughters who I love very much. I work as a painter in Edmonton now. In Iraq, I was an accountant and I owned a financial transfer company. Because of the wars, I had to leave everything behind.

My goal is to become confident in speaking English. I want to improve my English so I can help my family and myself. I plan to study accounting and start my own company. I also want to learn English well so I can live my life without needing anyone to translate for me.

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Hi every one

my name is deqa jama

i am so excited to new term of english learning program

i was visted this summer british colombia ,me and my family i had fund ,i wish go back next summer

nice to meet you too every one

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Hello everyone, My name Kiya, I come from Ethiopia . I have been in Canada almost on years .

I Love Canada But I had a Straggle of by weather when i came here but I am very good.

I had to much plane in this summer but my first plane is i wanna improve my English , Specially i wanna approve my listing skill , That is my first things.

The second one is i wanna Visiting Banff more than Friends they were Invited me but was not going becouse of work i had Bussy at that time .but now i wanna see it that place .

I am glad to meet you everyone , have a good term ,thank you!

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Hello everyone,

My goal for this term, I want improve my speaking.

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Hello everyone. My name is Olena, I am from Ukraine. I am happy and excited to start a new semester.

This summer, my family and I visited the Ukrainian village and Jasper National Park. We love being in nature. We did a lot of hiking. Incredible and fascinating places.

The rest of the time, I tried to read English books. I watched TV series with English subtitles.

It is very difficult to establish a life and get used to it in a new country. Learning English motivates me.

This term, I want to improve my grammar and vocabulary. Grammar is the subject I have the most difficulty with. I will improve myself more in this subject this term.

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Hi everyone,

My name is Bokyung Park, and I am from South Korea with my family.

I have been in Edmonton for 4 years. I love to live in Edmonton with beautiful nature such as Banff and Jasper, even long winter.

I want to improve speaking English well in this term.

I am glad to meet everyone, thank you!

Bokyung,

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Hello everyone,

My name is Igor. I am from Ukraine. My family and I live in Edmonton for 2.5 years. This is my fifth term in Noquest college. In this term i hope I can improve my level of English. I look forward to meet everyone.

Thank You so much and see you later.

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Hi everyone, this is Roeen. I am excited to start my first English class in NorQuest College. This will be my first experience.

During the summer I went on a five-day vacation with my wife. Originally we planned a trip from Jasper to Banff, Banff to Waterton, and then back to Edmonton, but unfortunately Jasper caught on fire, so we changed our plans. Instead we went on a 2-day camping trip in Banff and spent two days in Waterton. It was a fun experience.

I am new to this college my language learning goal is to improve my writing, speaking and grammar skills. I will try to spend at least 30 minutes per day reading to reach my goal.

Good luck to everyone!

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My name is Nova I am from Eritrea, it is nice to meet you everyone specially our teacher Shiran Wang I am glad to see you for the this term again.

Actually I was busy at work this summer I couldn't get enough time to enjoy but at least I went to Banff with my friends for 3days and we had fun together hopefully I will make it for the next summer.

My goal for this term is to improve my speaking and listening language by participating in the class and practicing with my classmates, and hopefully at the end of this term I will achieve more than 90% of the assessments.

Wish you a good luck and nice to see all thankyou!

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Hello everyone

My name is Samaher, I am from Palestine. This summer I have been busy with my family and with work.

I work as a teacher for the Arabic school and managing the summer camp.

I enjoyed all the moments I had with my family this summer.

Now I want to continue to improve English and learn how to speak more fluently. I look forward to meeting everyone

Samaher

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Hello everyone!

My name is Nataliya, I am from Ukraine.

This is my second term at Norquest College.

This summer, my husband and I visited Miette Hot Springs in Alberta's Jasper National Park with our closest friends who have lived in Edmonton for over 15 years.

It is a very beautiful place and luxurious water that we will return to again and again.

This term I plan to study English more intensively.

My goal is to spend 30 minutes every day learning new words. And also improve my reading, pronunciation and speaking.

I look forward to meeting everyone in the class.

Nataliya

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Hello everyone! My name is Nataliia. Originally I am from Ukraine, but I lived in Poland for a long time.

During the summer I had a chance to visit Banff with my family. It's was amazing experience! Also I was glad to attend Calgary Zoo, which is a great place to visit with kids. Additionally, I visited Royal Tyrrell Museum, which was beautiful!

This term I would like to improve my speaking skills because it's my weak point.

I'm looking forward to starting this studying journey with you!

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Hello everyone!

My name is Stanislav. I am from Ukraine.

I am excited to continue my studies at the next level at NorQuest College, this is my 5th term.

My family and I visited Jasper National Park this summer and had a great time with my family.

My goal now is to learn and improve my writing and spoken English.

To do this, I have goals to read simple stories 3-4 times a week if possible, and to write short sentences about what I did at work that day.

I think this will increase my vocabulary and I hope to learn how to correctly make sentences.

I look forward to meeting everyone!

Stanislav

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Hello everyone, my name is Nadiia. I'm from Ukraine. I'm glad to start next term at NorQuest College.

During the summer break I worked. I have lived in Canada 2.5 years and I never have a vacation here. However my family and me was in the Elk Island National Park. It was so good! Beautiful nature, nice bisons! I hope one time I can visit all the wonderful places in Alberta.

My SMART goal is to improve my English reading skill. I need more than 4 at the CELPIP. Now it's only 3... it's my weak side.

I like learning with NorQuest College! I'm happy to start new term with you!

Nadiia

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Hello everyone!

My name is Vieolett, I am from Syria. This summer I visited Corn Meze Park with some friends. It was a fun day. I am happy to back at school. I am looking forward to improving my English in writing, reading, listening, and speaking. As I was on vacation, I spend some time every day writing and reading. I am looking forward to this semester to develop my English skills. I also excited to meet my teacher and classmates to exchange information and develop our language skills.

I wish everyone the best luck.

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Hello everyone,

My name is Olena. This is my 3rd semester in NorQuest college and I am very glad to meet you all!

I had good summer vacation and I had good rest. Me and two daughters went to Drumheller for one day to see dinosaurs and hike a little bit. We visited Royal Tyrrell Museum and it was incredible! They have full-size dinosaurs skeletons and even the ones who move. They were so huge!

This semester I want to improve my English skills, especially my speaking and listening skills. I am planning to do 30 days challenge and watch movies in English and try my best to understand everything.

Thank you and best wishes in this semester!

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Hello everyone. My name is Sultan. I am so excited to be in fall classes. This is my second term in Norquest.but the part-time online is very good. I am very happy with you and with you here and take care. So I visited last term in Toronto Park International Park, and I went to Mississauga City and Casino. Also I visited the London Ontario. So all on Thursday is very beautiful performance. So I hope to visit someday and I want to forward the Niagara Falls is very famous in Canada. So it's very beautiful. I was enjoying my friend and with my relative. Thank you so much, and I see you guys in the next appointment. Thank you so much.

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Hello friends. My name is Irina Tsymbaliuk. I am happy to start my second term at NorQuest College. I am very happy that my teacher will be Sheeran again.

I worked a lot during the summer, but on weekends my friends and I had barbecues.

I have smart goals for the near future. I will continue reading articles every day for 15 minutes. I like everything related to human relationships. Perhaps in October I will start reading a book. I also plan to improve my writing skills once a week. I plan to turn on the audio recording, and then write what I heard in English.

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Hello everyone!

My name is Kateryna, and I'm excited to be part of this learning community. I am from Ukraine. Over the summer, I had the opportunity to visit Lake Louise, Morein Lake and Hot Springs, British Columbia which was a wonderful experience filled with beautiful nature.

For this term, my English learning goal is to improve my speaking fluency. Specifically, I am to increase my speaking practice to at least 30 minutes per day, five times a week, and to expand my vocabulary by learning and using 10 new words or phrases each week. By the end of the term, I hope to be more confident and articulate in both casual and formal conversations.

Looking forward to working towards these goals with all of you!

Best,

Kateryna

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Hello, my name is Natalia. I am from Ukraine. I have been living in Canada for 4 years. Canada has a very beautiful nature. I am a photographer and I love to travel around the country to find new places for myself. My goal is to improve my English as much as possible. It is important for me to speak English fluently. To be able to communicate with everyone, I need to be fluent on any topic.

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Alina's Introduction

Hello, everyone! My name is Alina, I'm from Ukraine. I'm a new student in your group. I am glad to join you! This summer, my family and friends went to the mountains, we were camping and saw many of the moust beautiful places in Canada.

I came to English courses because it is a good opportunity to improve my knowledge! Thank you for your help!

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Hello everyone. My name is Ana Paula, but you can call me Ana. I am from Brazil. I am excited to be back in class.

This summer, my family and I went camping with our friends at the Sylvan Lake. It was our first camping, it was a lot of fun, an incredible experience.

This term, my goal is to improve my speaking, writing, listening and reading skills. I hope to speak more confidently.

I’m glad to see my classmates again on this term and meet the new ones.

See you all in class.

Ana Paula

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Hello everyone, my name is Robiel. I'm very excited to start my 3rd semester online class at Norquest collage with you.

In the summer break time , I went to Calgary zoo with my uncle. I was super excited at that time. I seen many animals like Ostrich, Elephants, Lions, Giraffes, ....etc. It was nice moment for me because, I never seen them before.

I set a goal for my English class online is to develop my proficiency in the language, which includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking. I hope to be able as result of successfully completing this course.

I look forward to meet everyone!

Robiel

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Hello everyone, my name is Viktoriia. I am exited to start my 3th semester at NorQuest College with amazing teacher and you.

This summer was my second visit to Banff.

Walking along picturesque trails, cycling along wild roads, swimming in lakes with clear water - all this makes a vacation in Banff unforgettable.

With the goal of becoming a more competent English speaker, I have developed plans that will allow me to gradually improve my skills.

I plan to strengthen my English conversational practice by communicating with native speakers on a daily basis. To do this, I plan to join various online language learning platforms and clubs so that speaking English becomes a natural and regular part of my life.

In addition, I want to use multimedia resources such as movies, TV series, podcasts, and music in English to immerse myself in the language environment and improve my understanding of English speech.

Overall, I will make every effort to make learning English an integral part of my daily life.

Viktoriia

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Hi everyone, my name is Iveth Rodriguez. I'm so happy to return this new term.

During the summer break, I visited my parents in Bogota - Colombia.

In this new term, I want to improve my English learning. I will be out of the 9 hours between webinars and homework every week, studying and practicing what I learned in the remaining days, using at least 2 hours 4 days a week to improve my listening, writing, vocabulary and pronunciation.

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Hello everyone,

My name is Oksana. I am glad to continue studying English with the new teacher.

I came to Canada two years ago and my English improved because of meeting very good teachers at Norquest.

I worked all summer, so I couldn't go anywhere to travel. I hope when I achieve my goal to make my English better, I can change my work and I will be able to travel.

I am looking forward to meeting everyone!

Sincerely,

Oksana

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Hi everyone, My name is Mihret. I'm from Eritrea. I have been studying English at Norquest for six months, and I'm glad to start this term with you. During the summer, I didn't visit any place, because I started a new job and I'm a newcomer. So I have to work hard to stable my financial life. In this full term, my goal is to improve my English speaking and listening. So, I will spend more time in listening some podcast and I will try to communicate with people around me and with my co-workers.

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Hello.

My name is Olena and I'm from Ukraine.

My family and I started a new "page" of life in a completely new country for us - in Canada. Here we live in a small town called Lloydminster. I live here just one year.

I want to learn English because Canada is an English - speaking country and wherever I go, I need to speak English.

I hope that this course will help me learn English better.

Regards,

Olena

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Hello everyone. My name is Lilibet Benitez. I am from Colombia. I am excited to be back in class.

This summer was a lot of fun, traveling on vacation for 5 week to Panama, The Colombian Caribbean and the Dominican Republic.

This term I am going to be more constantly , I will practice my conversation more.

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Hello!

My name is Tetiana, and I'm from Ukraine.

This summer, I spent time with my family exploring different parks in Edmonton, which was a great way to enjoy nature and relax. It also helped us connect with our new surroundings.

This term, my English learning goal is to improve my conversational fluency. Specifically, I plan to practice speaking for 30 minutes each day, focusing on expanding my vocabulary and improving pronunciation.

By the end of the term, I want to be able to confidently hold a 30-minute conversation on everyday topics without hesitation.

Tetiana.

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Hello everyone, my name is Roya. I'm from Afghanistan. I'm glad and excited to be starting at NorQuest college . i hope i use from this opportunity and learn a lot .

This summer , i didn't go any especial places because i don't have a car i was just at home and busy with my kids and routines,

My short term goals. Enhance over all English proficiency , focusing on speaking , reading , writing and listening by the end of this term.

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My name is Brenda, I feel very happy to start classes again and I hope to lñearn a lot.

My summer vacation was very nice because my family and I like to go camping and we went to Pembina River and we also ent to Museo Tyrrell Drumheller and my children were excited to learn more about the history of dinosaurs.

I hope that this term I can study longer and that I can speak more fluently and improve my pronunciation and not be afraid to speak.

It is a pleasure to start this term with all of you.

Best regards,

Brenda

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Hi everyone! My name is Olena, I am from Ukraine.I live in Provost, it's a small town in central Alberta.West of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. I am so excited my teacher is Shiran again!

When I had summer break I spent a lot of time at the lake with my daughter and our friends.I also went to the BC for 4 days, we visited hot spring.

This term my goal to improve my speaking and writing skills.I love learning new English words.

In this course I want to practice a lot and work with my team!

Thank you NQ College and my teacher Shiran! Glad to see you guys again and welcome to the new ones!

Good luck to all!

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Hi everyone, my name is Alisson, I am so happy to study English again at NorQuest College.

This summer I had a trip to my country and I went to the lake with my friend in Alberta and Saskachewan so much fun and beautiful places. I enjoy this summer a lot.

This term I am going to be more consistent and practice more my writing skills and speaking.

I am looking forward to meeting everyone! Alisson.

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Hello every one

My name is Habte Okubamichael I am from Eritrea. I am excited to study the English language at Norquest College.

This summer break, I went with my family to the national park of Banff. Banff is a beautiful and natural place. We had a good time with my family.

At this term, I have a goal to improve my speaking. I promise to improve my speaking skills through communication with my coworkers and with my kids.

I hope this term will be useful for me.

I am looking forward to everyone in class.

Thank you,

Habte

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Hi everyone, my name is Andrii. I am from Ukraine. I came to Canada one and half year ago. This is my fourth term in NorQuest College.

On weekends my family and I like to go to new parks. This photo was taken in Dunvegan Provincial Park.

This term, I'm planing to improve my writing skills. I'm going to spend 20-30 minutes a day for reading books and writing out unfamiliar words.

I look forward to our future meetings!

Andrii

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Hi everybody

My name is Shih Chieh, you could call Shih to me, I am from Taiwan, do you know Taiwan? Not Thailand, mostly people thought Thailand is Taiwan, it’s different country.

My hobbies are surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding of longboard, pickleball and disc golf. Especially hobby I am collecting board games, I have had 200 kids of board games.

I was camping twice in summer break, normally I always camp 5 times up with family, but next march , We will visit my hometown 1 months, so I need save my money.

Nice to see you everyone.

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Hello everyone,

I hope you had a happy summer vacation. My name is Tahani Al-Zoubi.

I am from Syria. In fact, I did not travel outside Canada this summer because I was working, so I only went out on the weekends with my family.

My goal in this semester is to be able to develop the skill of speaking through the use of sentences. Simple, clear, and to achieve this, I will practice more reading and listening to stories and language programs. Best wishes to everyone

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Hello everyone,

My name is Saba Petros. I am excited to start this new term with my dedicated and passionate teacher , and all of you at the Norquest college program.

During my summer time I visited Broadmoor lake park with my friends. We had a great time , walking around, doing BBQ and we played volleyball  beside the lake. We enjoyed the nurture with wild animals from far.

I am planning to improve my English skills , especially my writing and reading skills by practicing three times a week , writing stories and reading books.

Pleased to see you again. Wishing you success.

Saba

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Hello everyone, my name is Wesam Al HajAli

I am happy to join this group again.

I am from Syria.

I hope you had a nice holiday.

To be honest, I spent the holiday inside Canada, specifically in Nova Scotia, it was a great holiday, we went on a trip to different areas and played sports like football and swimming.

My goal now is to develop my conversation and listening skills with others by speaking in correct sentences and at an appropriate speed in the next three months, and to achieve that I will practice reading stories and listening to clear dialogues..

Good luck to everyone.

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Hello! My name is Amani Ali I am really exited to begin this term with new people and Sherin our instructor. I am from Palestine but I was born in Syria. I have 3 kids as well.

This summer I went to Calgary for about half of the summer. I enjoyed it a lot there and it was a great experience as well! The nature, buildings, and area was amazing, I loved it so much!

This Term I am planning to improve my writing and reading skills. To achieve this goal I would read about 20 minutes everyday and write about my week every Sunday to improve my writing.

I am looking forward and exited to meet everyone and to enjoy this term together.

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My name is Yasmin, I'm originally Somali

I'm happy to be part of this term at Norquest college ,

This summer was great ! for me I have fun with my two kids joining different activities with them.

My smart goals is to improve my English to practice speaking,lissening,writting,and reading

to be more confident in communication.

its great to meet my classmate again on this term!

yasmin

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Hi everyone, my name is Laila Barati i am form Afghanistan. Looking forward to the new term and learn new things.

This summer was ok, not the best. the smokey skies & the wildfire in Jasper wasn't fun at all. we did manage to make some nice trips to Jasper b4 the fire. Other than that, I had a busy summer with my kids and family.

Thank you for reading

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Hello everyone!

My name is Andrii. I am frome Ukraine. My hometown is Odesa. I'm happy to start on new term to study in the NorQuest College.

This summer my family and I were in Banf National Park. We had fun swiming on the paddle boards and spend great time with my family.

I learning English because I want to improve my writing, speaking, reading and lessining skills for developing on my job.

I hope this course will be usefull for me and I could be better know English.

Best regards.

Andrii

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Hi everyone! My name is Thu Huong, Thu in Vietnamese is Autumn, and Huong in Vietnam is pink. So my name means pink Autumn. I came from Vietnam. I have been a pharmacist in Vietnam since 2003 when I got my Master's degree in pharmacy. I have been living in Canada for over 3 years. I am very glad to be a NorQuest student and one of the students in our class.

This summer, my family went to Whistler for 1 week. Whistler is a beautiful place with many natural landscapes. It was also honored to host the Winter Olympics in 2010, even though my family went there for vacation this summer, I still love the scenery. During the day we went kayaking at Alta lake, one of the most amazing lakes in Whistler. In the evening, we went to drink coffee and listen to music together. It was a nice time for my family to enjoy when we left behind our job and our study to rest.  It also was a great time because my mother, who is 80 years old, came from Vietnam to gather with us.

My English goal is to always keep improving my English in all four skills such as writing, reading, listening, and especially speaking. I usually don’t talk much because I am always shy, especially with a language that’s not my mother tongue. I also want to finish CLB5 as soon as possible by changing to study full time and become hard-working to go up to CLB8. Moreover, I would like to continue learning pharmacy at University. I also want to work at a pharmacy in Canada that I had worked for 20 years in Vietnam. To achieve my goals, I will work hard to study English, but it is difficult for me when I am a business owner at a Vietnamese restaurant and I am not young. So I think I need to try my best.

I am looking forward to having a memorable time in our class, and also making new friends, along with discovering the different cultures from my classmates in our class.

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Hello everyone! My name is Yana. I am excited to start this new term with all of you at NorQuest College!

One summer day I was in Lake Louise with my family. We had an incredible walk on the lake. It was fun. It is truly one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.

I set the goal of this English course to improve my speaking and writing skills. I like to practice 20 minutes every day with Duolingo. Hopefully, I will also have the opportunity to practice more spoken English in my second new job.

It's great to meet everyone again on this term!

Yana

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Hi everyone,

My name is Koffi. I'm happy to be part of this team for this term.

For my English learning goals, I want to focus on improving my communication skills, especially in writing and speaking. My SMART goal is to practice writing at least one detailed paragraph in English each day and engage in two conversations per week with native speakers to improve my fluency. By the end of this term, I aim to increase my vocabulary and be more confident in both formal and informal communication.

Looking forward to learning with all of you!

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Hello everyone, my name is Abd Al Mallik Im from Syria and I live in edmonton. I'm a welder with a passion for my job. This summer was a busy one for me, as I worked the whole summer and didn't get a chance to take a break or travel. Despite the long hours, I enjoyed the challenges that came my way, and I'm proud of me self and for my hard work . Now, I'm excited to take a moment to focus on my English skills,although it's going to be hard working and studying but i will try to do my best and I'm looking forward to learn with all of you. My goal for this term is to improve my writing skills, so I can better communicate with clients and colleagues at my work. I'm excited to learn and share my experiences with you all!

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Hello everyone, my original name is Valeriia but you call me Valeri. I'm glad to start at NorQuest College.

This summer, my husband and I visited Banff and Jasper national Parks. We like hiking and hate it too =).

My English learning goals are to improve my speaking and writing skills in this term. I'm going to spend 15-20 minutes every day learning new vocabulary and to include it in conversation.

I look forward to our meetings in the class.

Valeri

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Hello everyone!

My name is Andrii. I am frome Ukraine. I am happy to start to study in the NorQuest College.

This summer my family and I were in Jasper National Park. We had fun and spend good time.

I learn English because I want to improve my writing, speaking, reading and lessining.

I hope this course help my be better know English.

See you in class.

Andrii

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Hello everyone, My name is Thi. I am from Vietnam. I am very happy to come back to study with you.

This summer, I am busy with growing vegetables and having relatives come to visit, so I have not gone anywhere to play this summer.

I set a goal for this course by improving my listening and speaking, I am completely unable to communicate, which makes me have many obstacles in all aspects.

I hope this course I will be more confident in speaking. see you in class.

Thi

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Hello everyone!

My name is Anna. I am excited to start my 5th semester at NorQuest College with you.

This summer my family and I visited Banff. It is simply an amazing place. The beautiful nature amazed me!

I fell in love with these places!

This term, I have set a goal for myself: to improve my writing. To do this, I will spend 10 minutes every day to writing words and sentences using the mobile app.I will also try to use the translator less.

I look forward to meeting everyone!

Anna

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Hi everyone, my name is Shiran. I'm super excited to start this new term with all of you! :D

During the summer break, I went camping at the Bruce Peninsula National Park with my friends and their cats. This is a photo of me with my cat friend, Lucky. :)

This term, in order to assist you better with your English learning, I'm going to spend 10 - 15 minutes on a grammar point relevant to what we are learning on a weekly basis. I'm also planning to provide you with at least one collaborative speaking/writing activity every week.

I'm looking forward to our new learning journey together!

Shiran