2010 National Essay Contest
The award ceremony for the 2010 National Essay
Contest was held on Friday, March 11th at the
American Corner in Skopje. The winners from
each of the three age groups were invited to attend
along with their teachers. They were awarded
certificates and book prizes, and each student read
their essay for the audience. Representatives from
the project partners of Peace Corps and ELTAM
(English Language T
eachers Association of
Macedonia) were in attendance. Several speakers
offered their words of congratulations to recognize
these students’ achievement: John Surface,
Cultural and Education Affairs Attaché from the
U.S. Embassy; Stephen Kutzy, Peace Corps
From left to right: Ivona Glavinceska (Category 1
Macedonia Country Director; Elizabeta Hristovska,
National Winner), Elena Brchioska (Category 2
ELTAM President; and Aleksandra Popovski, 2011
National Winner), Gligor Tasev (Category 3
Essay Contest National Coordinator from ELTAM.
National Winner), John Surface, Elizabeta
Hristovska, Evan Brengle, Stephen Kutzy,
We would like to take this opportunity to thank
Aleksandra Popovska
each of these individuals for attending the
ceremony and helping to make it a meaningful
event for the students. Also, we would like to thank the American Corner staff from each
location in Macedonia for their support throughout the stages of the contest, and all of the many
Peace Corps volunteers who helped with the contest by recruiting and coaching students,
collecting and judging essays, arranging venues and hosting workshops, and distributing
certificates. This contest could not have happened without all of your contributions. Thank you.
Finally, I would like to again congratulate the national winners. These students’ essays
exemplify the creativity and insight we were hoping for when we decided upon this years’ topic:
My School in 100 Y
ears. These essays each present imaginative and thoughtful responses to this
topic. Not only did these students explore the possibilities for schools in the future, but they also
examined the implications of these possibilities. These students strove to form original ideas on
the topic, and further, they invested their time and effort into expressing those ideas in words. T
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the students, I would like to say again, “Great job!” The winning essays appear here. I hope
Pauza readers enjoy them as much as we did.
- Evan Brengle
School Days 100 Years in the Future
Category
1
Winner
by Ivona Glavinceska (Struga)
Everyone knows that time brings up changes. So as time flies by, our life will
change in drastic measures. Our homes, our cars, TVs, computers, even our schools
won''t be able to stay as they are now. I'm looking forward to the future because I
believe that life will be better then. At least schools will be more effective and the
uneducated population will drop. Still with every change come a few bad ones.
T begin with, the schools will be big enough so we won't have to go in two shifts. We will go
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only in first shift so we'll have more time after school. The doors of the school will automatically
open so there won't be any fights what so ever. The school bathrooms will be much cleaner and so
will the classrooms. We will all have a school canteen where they will serve healthier lunch and we
won't be able to eat chips and chocolate for breakfast every day.
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