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There
were several reasons for choosing this topic. First of all, I was born
and raised in Kazakhstan, so I wanted to write about my country.
Secondly, I have worked with children and teenagers in my home church
for many years and I love doing it still, and thirdly it is a really
interesting field, especially when looking at the history of a country
or nation and you are able to see the changes that happened during that
period. This new topic gave me much excitement, and I began the work by
collecting material from a wide range of sources and interviewing
people. Although this task was at times daunting, I did not forget to
spend time with my friends and take a break from the work. On a crisp
winter day some of the students decided to go iceskating (I love it),
however, my enjoyment reversed because I fell and broke my arm. This
was the first time in my life that I broke a bone, but what concerned
me more was, that my deadline was still at the end of April and I
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So
struggling with the huge and uncomfortably heavy cast on my right hand
I attempted to write 20 000 words by April. What is interesting about
this incident was that the first thing which I told when it happened
was "Why did it happen to me?" And later on when I looked back I was
thankful to God for many things: for the doctor who relocated the bones
in my arm (I had a compound fracture) so that there was no need for
surgery, then I was really glad that I broke my right arm and not the
left, because I am left-handed, so I was not encumbered so much, and I
had more time for my studies as well.
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I
will not tell you all things about how uncomfortable it was to be
limited to using only one hand, but praise the Lord everything went
well and in 6 weeks my cast was off and I could enjoy my two arms again.
During all this time I was writing my dissertation and when I got back two typing hands I had third part of my work already.
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I
continued working on interviewing people from Prague and I am thankful
to my parents for helping me from Kazakhstan by supplying material for
my dissertation. As you know I am a journalist so I really like talking
to people, that is why I used this opportunity for my dissertation and
I enjoyed that very much. By April I had a draft of my paper and sent
it to my teachers for their critic and scrutiny. I got feed-back where
I needed to correct some parts of my dissertation. Time of corrections
and checking started and I was sometimes confused by having many
versions of my work. Finally text was fine and I needed to make
Bibliography and footnotes in a nice order. It was hard because it
takes scrupulous work and it is not about me at all.
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Thank
God I made a nice shape for my dissertation and sent it for submission.
By the end of May I got a feedback with good marks and 28 May 2010 I
was graduated with a great feeling that I completed my studies and,
praise the Lord, did it very well!
Jenny Kanunnikova
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