Dear Grandmother,
How are you and your tranquil little village? I hope you are at peace. Your letters are wonderful and often very funny – please believe me when I say that they are often reasons to smile and to miss you very much.
I’ve [Oleg] started to work for the summer. About a month ago I was at a crossroad whilst choosing which summer job to undertake. Choice A was rather boring but financially profitable. Choice B was not boring at all but financially impoverishing. Thinking of the need for useful experience, I chose ‘B’ – at the obvious cost of a poor salary but also at the cost of an often surprisingly pushy and obsessive boss. Well... perhaps I’m overstating the problem just a tad, but either way a choice is a choice and I’ll have to tolerate it for a few months.
It’s hard to believe that I’m in my last year of undergraduate studies. Only moments ago, it seems, I nervously walked into a lecture hall on the first day of university. After I receive my degree, I hope to be accepted into another local university (with a better reputation than my current university) to start my Masters of Science degree. I haven’t decided on my field of research yet, however. I thought of working with robotics, but lately I’ve been reconsidering. Also interesting, I think, is biomedical engineering. I suppose there’s still some time to think.
I (Lisa) just started to work this past Monday, June 16. For the month and a half before that, I was a student teacher in an elementary school. I taught and helped in a fourth grade class and I also helped the first grade class. It was a very rewarding experience, and I miss the children very much now that it is over. However, it helped me to realize that I would like to be an elementary school teacher more than any other career. I hope I will become an incredible teacher one day, just like my role models.
Like Oleg, I am also in my fourth and last year of undergraduate studies. After that, I will have one year of teacher’s college, and then I will be ready to get a job as a teacher! This is all very exciting and happening so quickly.
We really miss you and want to visit you in Ukraine again in the future. Hopefully these pictures and videos will help you to think of us and remember us more.
We love you.