Hello dear friends,

Tick tock, tick tock… time is running so quickly! 1 more week and we’ll be finished with LEAP (I wish this for everybody, so nobody would have to pay big money to repeat this course). I’ve been studying here since last September together with some of you (Amy, Alif, and Mohammad); meanwhile, majority of the others I met first in January. However, now it seems that we are all old friends :) At least to me. I will really miss you guys (including our nice instructors) after this program. Hopefully, we will keep writing each other emails and even meet time to time. I’ll be always happy to receive your messages :) Don’t forget that!

What are you going to do the coming summer? I think most of you will go to visit your countries. I hope I’ll do the same thing in the second half of the summer. And let’s promise each other that we’re not gonna stop studying English ;) At least reading English books…

I would also like to improve some of my other languages, especially French, the language that I started studying at my university in Lithuania the year when I was finishing my degree program. I had the most amazing French teacher in the world!!! Because of such terrific teachers students start loving their target languages. I feel sorry that I couldn’t give my all for learning French because I also had to write my thesis. Those months were one of the hardest ones I had in my life. Therefore, my attention was not focused on language learning. Moreover, I haven’t practiced my French since my final exam (I got 10 :)). And after such a long time, languages that you don’t use get mixed up especially if you studied similar languages as I did – Italian and French. Then, you can’t remember such things like – oh, which of these: a l’universite and all’universita is en Francaise and which in italiano :)

The moral is – let us all often practice languages that we’ve studied. Cheers!

PS. Happy Easter!!!