Pre-Story.

So... To start off I think that I should write a little "pre-post". I am a Russian girl, Anastasia, last name isn't important. Actually I wanted to start writing a kind of story that started around two years ago in a sweet small country named Switzerland but I decided to look back a little more. When I first came there, I was 10. After three years of going to summer program in Leysin American School, I decided that I want to become a boarding student there. In august 2007 I said Good-bye to all my friends in Russia and three days later I was sitting in a library in Swiss Alps. In this school, one year of your life goes as 2 years of biological life. So after I’ve spent 3 years studying there, mentally I developed 2 times faster then my ex-classmates in Russia. I think that it is because teenagers, being young, are moved to an environment they have never experienced before: no parents, totally different problems, need of taking care of yourself, taking care of your finance. But there, in the middle of Europe, I grew, I developed, and there I finished forming my own character. I became a person, mentally older then in reality. When I was fifteen I had a mind of an eighteen years old person. This place, this village, this country, these people… Everything have made me who I am today and I’m proud I made this decision five years ago. In this school I met the love of my life and now we’re planning to get married.



This is a little bit of information to make everything I will talk about afterward understandable. There are really a lot of things I wish to write about and I hope that many young people, especially girls, who are still in the beginning of their life, in the beginning of their school life, their adult life, would read this because I’ve been through many unusual things that rarely happen to a girl of my age.  I believe that this is the best experience a person could ever have. I am happy this happened earlier because now I’m smart enough and I’m not even twenty years old yet. I believe that it’s better to do all the crazy mistakes in your youth because this is what makes you learn and move on being smarter - your personal experience. Unfortunately, what teaches us a lesson is often the negative experience instead of positive.



-Anastasia