Luxembourg is a country with many different nationalities. It’s especially the case for this school, as it offers the European education system! Here is an interview of the ACCU1 class, which consists of foreign students, conducted by the school blog.
1. Who are you?
Student 1: I’m Ameen.
Student 2: I’m Sofia.
Student 3: I’m Mariaa.
2. What is your favorite color?
Ameen: Black.
Sofia: My favorite color is yellow.
Mariaa: I don’t have a favorite color.
3. What is your favorite animal?
Ameen: Dog.
Sofia: I’m really crazy about cats.
Mariaa: I think the dog.
4. What is your favorite food?
Ameen: Kapsa.
Sofia: My favorite food is sushi.
Mariaa: Chocolate.
5. What is the last series you have watched?
Ameen and Sofia: I don’t remember.
Mariaa: I don’t know. I don’t have any.
6. What is the best movie of all time?
Ameen: No Skip.
Sofia: My favorite movie is an animation movie named “The Good Dinosaur”.
Mariaa: I don’t have any, but my favorite cartoon is The Simpsons.
7. What is your favorite song?
Ameen: Kiki. (The author would be great)
Sofia: My favorite song is Torna a Casa [by Måneskin].
Mariaa: I don’t have any.
8. What is your favorite sport?
Ameen: Football.
Sofia: My favorite sport is yoga.
Mariaa: Maybe dance.
9. What is your favorite subject?
Ameen: Math.
Sofia: My favorite subject is English.
Mariaa: Sport and English.
10. Where do you come from?
Ameen: I’m from Yemen.
Sofia: I’m from Ukraine.
Mariaa: I’m from Ukraine.
11. Since when are you in this school?
Ameen: Since January.
Sofia: Since April.
Mariaa: I’ve been in this school for one or two months.
12. How is the school?
Ameen: Nice, it’s a good school.
Sofia: I like it. It’s nice and modern.
Mariaa: It’s ok, it’s a good school.
13. How different is it from your old school?
Ameen: It’s a lot different from my old school. Here, everything is so clean, especially the toilets. My old school was very dirty. We also didn’t have a canteen or a cafeteria in Yemen.
Sofia: It’s really different, it’s more modern than my old school. The education system is also different from what we have in Ukraine.
Mariaa: It’s very different. The buildings are bigger, the teachers are kinder, and what we learn is more important and interesting. Also, the people and the languages are different.
14. What’s the most surprising element you’ve encountered in this school?
Ameen: There are a lot of extracurricular activities.
Sofia: There are a lot of sports and activities. For example, we can go to the swimming pool, open sport, we can also play football or basketball.
Mariaa: The languages and the lessons are very different.
15. Do you have any new subjects here?
Ameen: Yes, French.
Sofia: No.
Mariaa: Yes, French.
16. Are the people nice?
Ameen: Yes, of course.
Sofia: Yes, they are very nice, they are very kind, they always support me.
Mariaa: Everywhere we can find kind people and angry people.
17. What is your dream job?
Ameen: I want to be website designer.
Sofia: Maybe something to do with politics?
Mariaa: Maybe something in management?
18. What frustrates you at school?
Ameen: I’m not very good at French or English, but the teachers are always here to help us and support us.
Sofia: I don’t know. I think that my language skills are not high enough. But the people are very nice and very kind.
Mariaa: Maybe the long lessons. In my old school, a lesson was 45 minutes long, and now they are one hour and thirty minutes long.
19. How are your teachers?
Ameen: They are very kind, and beautiful. They explain with a lot of details.
Sofia: They are very kind; they always help you and explain interesting stuff.
Mariaa: They are good, kind, and interesting. New people, new languages, new things.
20. How is Luxembourg in general?
Ameen: The country is nice. And so rich and clean.
Sofia: I really like it because it’s quite small. It’s really nice and quiet.
Mariaa: There is a lot of nature, I like it. It’s something new for me.
21. How different is it from the place you used to live?
Ameen: Well, Yemen is a big country, Luxembourg is much smaller. This place is so clean, and the government is very nice. And also, there is no war. That’s it.
Sofia: It’s quite different because Ukraine is very big, and Luxembourg is so small. Also, I lived in a city with a lot of modern and high buildings. Here in Clervaux they are very old, but you can also find a lot of parks and forests.
Mariaa: It’s really different because here, people are mostly living in houses and in my old city people were living in flats. We also don’t have this nature, it’s really beautiful.
22. Do you speak Luxembourgish already?
Ameen: We are currently learning Luxembourgish. It’s quite hard.
Sofia: No, not yet.
Mariaa: I only know a few words.
23. Have you visited some places since you’ve arrived?
Ameen: Yes. I went to Luxembourg city, the castle here in Clervaux, and also the museum with the exposition Family of Man.
Sofia: Yes, I visited Vianden, Clervaux, Luxembourg and Echternach.
Mariaa: I currently live in Wiltz and visited Clervaux before coming to school here.
24. Do you plan to stay here?
Ameen: No, because I want to go to Japan as I love technology.
Sofia: It depends on the situation. Because of the war, we cannot know what is going to happen tomorrow. So, it’s very hard to answer.
Mariaa: I’m not sure. I don’t know my future yet. Now, I’m here and I never thought before that I would be here some day.
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