Hello everyone!

We are a funny bunch of students from one school, one class, one group, but everyone of us is different somehow. Read on through our ´Hello letter´ and get to know us in detail.

So this is the ten of us: 1. Krištof Balla, 2. Dalibor Čečotka, 3. Mattiás Hurrych, 4. Lenka Javorková, 5. Nikola Kovalčíková, 6. Lea Novosedliaková, 7. Ivana Papajová, 8. Tereza Ščurová, 9. Ondrej Václavík, 10. Klaudia Varinská

1. Krištof Balla,

2. Dalibor Čečotka

3. Mattiás Hurrych

4. Lenka Javorková

5. Nikola Kovalčíková

6. Lea Novosedliaková

7. Ivana Papajová8. Tereza

Ščurová

9. Ondrej Václavík 10. Klaudia Varinská

Krištof Balla

Let me tell you something about me first:My name is Krištof Balla. I´m 15 years old. I´m from Slovakia.I was born in Martin, which is a city in the

middle of Slovakia. Martin has around 65 000 people.

Now I live in a small village Košťany nad Turcom. Košťany lies near Martin.

• I study at secondary grammar school called Gymnázium Jozefa Lettricha. I´m in the fifth grade which is called kvinta. My school is pretty but the lunches aren´t tasty enough. My hobbies are football, hockey, skiing and many other sports, tourism and so on. .. . My favourite football team is Chelsea. I like fun, my family and friends. I don´t like boring people and injustice.

• Let me introduce you to my family now: my father´s name is Ján and my mother´s name is Simona. My sister´s name is Benita. She is 14 years old. They live together with me. I have a dog. It´s a yorkshire terrier. It is called Enny. That´s all about me and my family. . .

Dalibor Čečotka

• Hi I am Dalibor and my nickname is Čečo.• I was born 15 years ago , in 1998. • My sign is pisces thah means I was born in March, exactly on the 2.3. . • So my father´s name is Luboš and mother´s name is Lubomíra. • I have two brothers. First is now 18 years old so he is older and second is 8

years old so he is younger.• Name Dalibor is of slavonic origin and means to recede.• I was born in Trnava which is big city in south-west Slovakia.• I went only once to kindergarden in Trnava because we (with family)

moved from Trnava to Martin. Here (in Martin) we have lived for 7 years and again we moved to Trnava. All this moving was difficult and since 2005 I have lived here in Martin.

• I attend highschool Jozefa L. and I am in my fifth year. In the past I went to elementary school in Záturčie(Aurela Stodolu) and in Trnava I was go to the Angeli Merici school.

Mattiás HurychMy name is Mattias Hurych and I am fifteen years old. I was born in 1998 in Banská Bystrica. I live in village Valca with my parents and my younger brother.

• My father´s name is Peter and my mother´s name is Lucia. I study at secondary grammar school in Martin.

• I have brown eyes and black hair. I wear glasses. I am talkative, friendly but very lazy. . . .

• In my free time I love playing computer games and go out with my friends. I go to guitar lessons in Martin and art lessons to private school.

• I like sports, for example : basketball, football, tennis, or hockey. . . . My favourite team is the Los Angels Kings and my favorite basketball team is Miami Heats.

My name is Lenka Javorková. It is a Slovak name. I am 16 years old. I live in Trebostovo, which is a village near Martin with beautiful surroundings. I live with my parents and my older sister who attends university in Trnava. I study at secondary grammar school in Martin. I am in my fifth year and I like it.

Lenka Javorková

I am going to tell you something more about myself. I have long fair brown hair and brown eyes. I am quite tall. I think I am a positive person. I am quite talkative and friendly. I am also lazy since I don´t like cleaning and learning. In my free time I often go for a walk and I go outside with my friends. I absolutely love sleeping. I´m keen on watching television and listening to music or going to cinema. I also have a part-time job in Neografia ( a printing company).

My name is Nikola and I´m sixteen years old.

This name comes from French and means „victory“.

My star sign is virgo because I was born in September.

I was born and I live in Martin. It's not big but I really like my hometown.

I don't have any brothers or sisters and that´s a pitty but I have one dog Jacky ,he's like my sibling. I live with my grandparents because my parents live and work

in Italy. She means so much to me and I love her. I have visited secondary grammar school already for five years and I like it here.

Nikola Kovalčíková

I have long, dark brown hair but my natural colour of my hair is blonde. My eyes are blue somewhat gray and I have two quite visible scars on the forehead. One of them is from last winter, from snowboarding. I have often good mood , so I think I'm quite a positive person. I´m very friendly too,and I'm for any fun. One of my worst features is the competitiveness.

One of my hobbies is volleyball. I have three trainings within a week. One of my favourite seasons is winter because I can ride on snowboard .No doubt, snow is the most wonderful creation of the nature.I spend a lot of time with my friends, too. When I have free time I read books. I like detective or fantasy stories. And I really love drawing. Every time when I'm bored I must draw something. And that's all about me for now.

My name is Lea Novosedliaková.I’m Slovak and I live in Martin.I am 15 years old and I will be 16 in February.I have studied at Gymnázium Jozefa Lettricha since 2009.I really love drawing and playing volleyball, reading books and maybe playing piano.

Lea Novosedliaková

• I have visited art school every Friday for 10 years. Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and sometimes on Fridays I have a volleyball training in my club VK TASK or at school. And every Saturday we have a match.

• I live with my brother and a cat. My parents are divorced so every two weeks we move from my mother to dad or from dad to mother.

• I have one younger brother. His name is Filip. He is 14 years old and he plays hockey.

• My name is Ivana Papajová. I live in Slovakia in Martin. My parents are divorced. I live with my mum and sister. She is 19 years old. She studies at university. I was born on the 22nd August 1997 it means I am 16 years old. My star sign is Leo. I go to secondary grammar school in Martin.

Ivana Papajová

• I am going to tell you about myself. I have long brown hair but I am a natural blonde and with blue eyes. I do not wear glasses I like good food, books, people and travelling. And I like to laugh. I think I am a positive person, friendly, lazy, sociable. In my free time I go to cinema and I go out, to visit my grandparents and my family. I do not have any pets but I would like a dog.

• My name is Tereza. I am 15 years old, I was born in 1998. My sign is Taurus. I live in Dražkovce near Martin in Slovakia. It is a calm city in the middle of Žilina region. I visit secondary grammar school. I am in my fifth year.

• I live with my parents and my dog. I don’t have any brothers or sisters. My mum works as a nurse and my dad is an engineer. He travels a lot abroad and he doesn’t spend a lot of time at home.

Tereza Ščurová

I have quite short blond hair and blue eyes. I wear glasses to the distance. I have had a scar on my forehead since I was 7 years old. I think I am a positive person but I have bad character features of course, for example I am really selfish. I am rather shy and that is sometimes a disadvantage.

In my free time I play tennis with my dad or cousin. Our whole family love tennis. My cousins played in Slovak representation in past years. They are abroad now. I go to English classes on Tuesday and Thursday. I visit tutorage from German, too. I can play piano and I can swim quite well, I visited swimming course in the past. I had to finish because I had health problems. That´s all for now.

Ondrej Václavík

• Hi, my name is Ondrej. I´m 15

years old. I was born in Bánovce nad Bebravou. I live in Martin and I study at secondary grammar school Jozefa Lettricha in Martin. I´m in the 5th class. I have one sister and parents. We live in the city part which is called Priekopa.

• I have fair short hair, I don´t wear glasses.• I´m a friendly person. I´m not very talkative. I'm

optimistic only in some things. I´m a very lazy person.

• I like sport, I do karate twice a week. When I was young I playd tennis. But I´m a sports fan, too.

• My favourite team in NHL is Chicago Blackhawks. By the way they won Stanley cup last year.

• I like going out with ma friends.• I don´t like going to schol. • I don´t have any home animal any cat, dog , fish

. . . any thing

My name is Klaudia Varinská . My dad wanted to give me the name that ends of „ia“. I am from Slovakia and I live in Martin , which is a city in the north of Slovakia . I live with my parents and one older sister. I have a dog , his name is Nicolas. My dad‘s name is Ján and my mum‘s name is Soňa. My sister is Viktória and she is 22 years old. She goes to college. My star sign is virgo. I am 16 years old and I go to Secondary grammar school Jozefa Lettricha in Ľadoveň. I attend the fifth grade.

Klaudia Varinská

• I am going to tell you about myself. This time I have brown hair but I am a natural blonde . I have dark eyes . Sometimes for example , when I read and write , I wear glasses but I want to get contact lensens soon. I think I am a positive person. I am extrovert and friendly and I am very talkative but sometimes I want to take a while myself. In my free time I love going out with my friends and eating good food and I really like sport , for example tennis and volleyball and running . In the past I went to the Ski Team Martinské Hole and I skied for Slovak Cup . I won the seventh place in the Slovak Cup of giant slalom.

So that was something about us and we are looking forward to hearing from you soon !