GRADUATES ´LETTERS 2016

Dear Audience,

I started my classes at this Cecie when I was 10 years old. I was a child and I liked it. I’ve met many friends that I still keep today.

At the beginning it was easy for me until I started third year and since then, the Cecie has been more and more difficult for me. My mother made me study here. Many times I wanted to give up but she always insisted on my continuing here.

Despite the fact that I had to come twice a week, I started to feel love for the Cecie. I’m very grateful for my teachers that helped me arrive at this moment and all my friends here, specially Valentina, that made Cecie not so boring as I thought.

I really wish all these years I studied English here help me communicate, travel, get a job, and build a future for myself

Finally, I’m proud of finishing classes in this Cecie and having my diploma very soon.

Hugs,

LARA ACEVEDO



Dear Cecie,

I’m so satisfied to say I’ve come here for 7 years, almost half of my life. I’ve met incredible people who are still friends of mine too, although some of them couldn’t finish the course with me.

I’m happy because, more than once, I considered giving up when I failed some exams, but my family helped me and, finally, I decided to continue coming. I realised I’ve learnt a lot here and I’m sure it has been the most positive experience in my life. Now, I’m proud of myself.

Thanks to every teacher and people who helped me get here.

VALENTINA CUENCA

I’m Micaela Sarubbi. When I started my classes at Cecie I was 7 years old. Honestly, I wasn’t happy to come. Only in third year I started to give it importance because I realised that it was important to learn English.

I wasn’t very sociable. In fourth year I made three important friends, who no longer come to Cecie.

The final exams are what I liked the least because they made me really nervous.

Until now, I have never repeated any school year and I have always tried to do my homework.

What I liked the most about this Cecie in all these years were the exchange teachers.

My first experience in the Cecie was six years ago. I was only 13 years old and I was curious about my new teacher and the partners I would be sharing with.

I entered because I live round the corner, so it was really comfortable. I clearly remember the first test I took, and I was really nervous. I didn’t know if I would pass it, and I did!!

I don’t remember the first year so much but I remember I made a few good friends at that moment.

In the third year, a friend of mine entered my class, and it was so cool because I didn’t speak to other kids in the class. But when the sixth year started, hedropped out, so the lessons were heavier for me, until I started to know a girl in the class and we became friends.

After 6 years, it’s crazy to think that we are one step closer to the end, and a stage is closing in my life!!!

LUCIANA KOLLMANN



Dear Cecie,

Well, I can’t believe my eyes! I am in sixth year!! This place is a part of my life because I have lived a great part of my youth here. All of us are in this Cecie because our parents wanted to.

Two years were difficult for me but then I gave my best to continue. My parents suggested that I leave the course but I didn’t want to because it was almost the end. Look at me now!! I’m here writing my farewell letter. I have met and made friends with different personalities and from different schools.

Looking back in time, I think these years were fantastic. I met people from other countries and that is so wonderful!!!

Now I say goodbye to Cecie.

NOELIA ALBARRACIN



The time has come to say goodbye to the Cecie but, at the same time, to say hello to the English language. I want to express my gratitude for the six years of learning and for the patience.

English is very important for our lives both to know a language and to speak a language because we can use it in our jobs, even if we want to travel.

I shared a lot of time with my friends here, for example, with Aldana, and a I had a lot of fun with my teacher because she always told me to pay attention in class but in a funny way.

Now I’m going to leave with a great teaching of what a language is and how complicated it can sometimes be. I hope English be really useful for all of us.

FLORENCIA JASA

Dear school,

I am writing to thank the Cecie for the years that you have been teaching me English. You helped me a lot, specially with High School English. And what I learned will help me find a job and communicate in other English-speaking countries.

It was difficult for me to learn the language but my effort will help me a lot. So, I want to communicate the lower grades, who are just starting, that they should study and strive because it’s worth doing it.

Yours sincerely,

IVAN CATACATA



Guys, at first, we were not so close as we are now. We became a close group, in which we always shared things and helped one another, and sometimes we laughed with our teacher after doing our tasks.

What we learnt will help us in the future to get a job. As time went by, I realised that this will be useful in what we are planning to do in our lives, such as, a trip. No matter what we do, English is very important, not only because we learn a language but also because we can communicate.

Although we sometimes felt desperate, we have done well and we have had fun in our learning path. I will miss you all.

ALDANA PISANO



I am going to tell the truth: my parents obliged me to come to the Cecie. I didn’t want to but now I see the difference between someone who has studied English here and someone who hasn’t.

All what I know now, I learnt it during first and second year in the Cecie. This will help me find a job, travel abroad, and, even if I want to surf the Internet, I can read it without problem; but there are a lot of people who can’t do it.

At school, English is a minor subject. Studying in this Cecie, helped me so much because I didn’t need to study for the English tests at school.

Now I see the advantage I had in being able to come to study here, the benefit of speaking two languages.

MICAELA MICHELI

Yes, there are few of us in the classroom. You will be surprised by the number of students there are in sixth year –only 12. No doubt you will be surprised when you see us in the End-of-Year Celebration, but I assure you that, when I started in 2011, there were a lot of us in the classroom. All the chairs were taken, sometimes we put them in a semicircle and we decided to leave them as we found them. But that was in 2011, now there are 13 or 14 students and, don’t get me wrong, I love having spare seats to sit where I want.

When I started my lessons, I met many boys and girls. I met many who didn’t miss anything, others who stayed longer and whom I would have liked to exchange some words. I also met those who are now my classmates and we arrived together till the end of the course. But that doesn’t mean that all these years have been easy.

And, despite the fact that some years were complicated and there were many “stones in the way”, we managed to arrive at sixth year.

I am sure that we are not going to leave empty-handed. Nowadays, what I learnt in this place helped me in many ways and, for that reason, I feel grateful.

To finish, many things seemed far away from this moment, but nothing is missing. In the blink of an eye, we are going to have our diploma in our hands.

PAOLA CARRIZO


Hello Everyone,

This will be short... I survived this Cecie during 7 years. And now I’m the second boy in this class. I can mention a lot of things about this place: good things and bad things, but I prefer to express my personal opinion. The good part of this is that I met new friends, I met people who suffered like me: they were forced to come here by their parents. The other thing is that when I could finally go to USA or UK, I will remember this time and this place. The bad part of this is that I was forced to come here. I didn’t want to come during my first year, but ... I didn’t have any choice. I was forced by my parents... POOR ME! L

My final words for you, students from this Cecie: RUN! RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN! Because once you start the second year, there is no turning back. THERE IS NO TURNING BACK!!!!

Bye, bye!

NICOLAS FAUNDEZ



Dear Everyone,

This is the last moment we are all together, and we should take a second to think about what happened. We have seen how everyone grew up; we’ve seen how some people got stuck at some point. We’ve learnt how to write in English. We’ve learnt how to speak English, and we’ve learnt how to hate our parents and some teachers, but also, we’ve learnt to love them...

We’ve been together for a long period of time, passing through boring or interesting lessons, easy or difficult tests, games and books, folders and songs...

We’ve been together in good times and bad times (even if we didn’t choose so). So I hope we can stay friends outside the Cecie, just as we’ve been inside it.

Oh, and for the teachers: thanks for not being mad at us, even during the times you should have.

MARIANA RODRIGUEZ