Undergraduate / Uzbekistan/my jokes/ hobbies/ hospitability ;UGRAD, A letter to roommate. [4]

Please write a letter of introduction to your future American roommate or host family. Please describe yourself.
What are your likes and dislikes, hobbies, and interests? What activities and organizations do you hope to participate in while in
the US? What are your family and home community like? What accomplishment of yours are you most proud of?

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Dear roommate,
I am writing to you from the sunny land proudly called Uzbekistan, with a great desire to tell you about myself, because if the things are well, we will spend 1 year together sharing one room. Introducing myself through the letter is not the thing which I am experienced in, but like my father used to say "If you have sincere intensions, you will be understood, anyways".

First of all, of course, my name is Server, but my friends simply call me Sega. I am very fun to be around guy, my friends always jest that even if I were on the uninhabited island, after some time trees would speak to me and laugh on my jokes. As you might already understand, I am the person who does not like to sit at home in front of the TV or waste the time in social networks, I prefer real communication, and always try to surround myself with the folks and friends, share ideas with them and just have fun. Having fun is important, however in relation to study I try to be diligent and hardworking.

I am thankful to my parents because they influenced enormously on shaping my personality and brought me up as intelligent, attentive and kind man. I have grown up in the ambience full of understanding and sincerity, so my creed has been "Life is too short, to waste it for no reason". I do not mean that I do only things that can be helpful to me, moreover I even hate selfishness in actions, I just want to say that I always think before I do and usually it helps me a lot.

As regarding my hobbies I would call myself "person who has tried everything", and this is truth. During my life I have gone in for lots of different sections and tried myself in football, karate, wu-shu, muay-thai and even became captain of high school basketball team. I gained a lot of benefits from training sports, developed sense of discipline, cultivated a strong will and found out what it cost to win. I also admire my trainer who formed firm ideology in my head and which I follow day in and day out, it is "healthy lifestyle", I mean life without alcohol and cigarettes.

Population of Uzbekistan is famous in Central Asia for its hospitability and sense of respect to co-workers and neighbors, especially to older people. Every citizen from childhood is taught to value those things. In my case my sister always kids with me saying that my children will be the happiest kids in the world. The reason for such conclusions occurred 1 year ago, when I gathered 3 of my friends who also studied English, and we went to orphanage located in our district. There were a lot of kids who looked so upset (actually they should be understood), we told the mentor that we want to give lessons of English language to the orphans. Both children and workers of the orphanage were happy. We visited them three times a week for almost one year, on the lessons (they were actually more interactive than educational) kids laughed, read funny texts, listened to music and look so happy that we did not want to leave them, they felt themselves as a big family with parents, brothers and sisters. This time of my life I am most proud of, because during this period I realized how strongly I love children. I know that volunteering in the US is not new term, so as an exchange student I would really like to help little members of our society to develop and become worthy men. In addition I will be pleased if you, my roommate, accompany me in this activity.

Even though I am only 19 I have a strong principles on my future life, one of them is not to miss the opportunities given to me, and always try not to disappoint those people who believed in me.

Undergraduate / Broaden my perspectives; UGRAD Exchange Program/ Why participate? [6]

Please describe why you would like to study in the US. What past experiences have given you this motivation?
How will studying on the Global UGRAD program help you learn about America? How will learning about the U.S. influence your
personal and professional goals for the future? essay souldn't exceed 1000words.
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As the time passes everyone has to face with making one of the most important decisions, namely deciding what he or she wants to do in their lives. Last year i had the same hardship... Throughout my life I have been interested in communicating with people, sharing the knowledge and introducing new, innovative ideas to the society. Thus I think I have found myself in the sphere of management. In forming my decision one of the essential roles was played by my father who used to say "Be that as it may, the language can open new horizons for you, and you deserve it! try hard and take it!"

I have always known that the USA is considered as the birthplace of this profession, so I understand that the best way to improve my skills is to study in the US university under highly qualified professors, masters of their subjects. I, of course, also understand that it will not be easy, however in order to achieve my dream I am ready to study diligently and grasp the knowledge they give.

I hope that participating in UGRAD exchange program will be able to find my strong sides in intelectual way and even in my personality and throughout 1 year of studying I would be pointed on my weak sides and helped to overcome the deficiences, as well as, improve myself for the greater good further. As far as I am concerned the chances like this, are given only to those who have shown excellent achievements in various spheres such as, educational background, communication skills, emotional persistence and life experience. One of the main aspects of being a scholar, in my personal view, is, undoubtedly, - having an excellent academic standing, showing perfection and fine leadership skills in order to become a role model for others. It is undeniable that being an exchange student has lots of benefits, but I think that we should not forget about the great responsibility that lays on our shoulders after being chosen. I mean, if we are given this chance to study in foreing university for 1 year, it means that somebody believed in us, and we have no right for a mistake. In addition we must understand that it is a rare opportunity, and once we acquired it, we should get most of this chance not only to become a better person, but also to make the community in which we live, a little bit better. I am not claiming that I am the person who will change the bad situations in poor regions of Asia and I will help the mankind to become more wealthy, all I am trying to say I that if every person try to think of others at least a bit, then with the strength of unity we could solve a lot more problems than one perfect person would be able to solve.

You may ask why I added the last sentence in the previous paragraph. My point is deeper that it may appear, I would like to say that I believe cultural exchange provided by UGRAD program can unite our countries into one strong union and after studying in the US uni I, of course, will shae the ideas and knowledge obtained there with my collegues and classmates. Furthermore, it is important to note that in my opinion young generation can become strong cunductor to the age when selfishness and inequality do not exist.

In conclusion, I would like to say that I do believe that every person has its own destiny, and if so - I will do everything possible and impossible in order to achieve my goals, because I am really interested in this sphere and would like to continue gaining knowledge through the UGRA program.