By Parshina Elizaveta | Project Leader
Today I want to tell you the story of our student Julia!
"Since I was three I was brought up in orphanage where I was taught on the simplified educational program for children with lag in intellectual development. With such an education I could only become a cook of the lowest category. After leaving the orphanage I wasn’t afraid to live on my own: I started to work in a pizzeria, I lived in my apartment, I equipped it.
Since the childhood I was engaged in different types of sport and dreamed to become a trainer. But to receive this profession I needed the certificate for 9 classes of comprehensive school. I tried to go to the evening school, but couldn’t study there. The task was given to me there— to sit by myself and do, I wasn’t able to do namely it. For this reason I came to «Big Change». When I started studying anew I was 24 years old.
Despite my efforts and efforts of my teachers I mastered the program with great difficulty. It was hard to understand something new, to build logical chains, to ask exact questions and to answer my teachers’ questions at the lessons. I could only follow a pattern and when I needed to choose quickly a suitable way for the solution of a task, I fall into a stupor. But even if for a moment my strength was leaving me, I asked myself a question: «Why I came here?», and I returned myself to study. And my teachers too looked for and tried different ways to help me together with me.
In three years of laborious persistent work I passed examinations and received the certificate for 9 classes. A year more went on preparation to Sports teacher training college. Now I am the student of a third year in this college. There is one and a half year before the end of my study. But I continue to be engaged in "Big Change” on mathematics, physics, English in order to fully master the specialty. The grant from "Big change" allowed me to devote more time to study.
«Big change» had given me the chance to achieve my dream — to become a trainer and a physical culture teacher. And the most important - to learn how to study by myself: to think, to do homework, to perform a task at a lesson, to make reports and many other things. After all in the real world there are no those nurses which would do everything for adults as in they do for children at the orphanage. I am grateful to my teachers for their patience, wisdom and professional help!"
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By Parshina Elizaveta | Project Leader
By Parshina Elizaveta | Project Leader
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