C.+Gatsby+Essay+(replacement)

Dear Mrs. Lewis,

To start off, my name is pronounced like, "merona rahimova". I certainly will not hold it against you if you mispronounce it, it is a toughy. My name is Farsi, and the meaning of it is love. I come from a little country in middle eastern Asia called Tajikistan. Tajikistan used to be part of the Persian Empire. I was born in its capital, Dushanbe. My father was also born there. My mom was born in another part of Tajikistan called, Khujand. I am much closer to my mom's side of the family; I have seven aunts and four uncles jusst from my mom's side. I have about thirty plus cousins and they all feel like my siblings. I speak four languages fluently, as do most people from my country. The languages are Tajik, Russian, Farsi and of course English. I speak mostly Tajik at home. Almost as soon as I was born, my family and I moved to Moscow, Russia for one year. Then, we all moved to sweden for a couple of years. After those couple of years my dad got offered a job here in Virginia. It took us a while to adjust to such a new environment and culture. My dad started his job, my mom found one as a doctor, my brother was still adjusting to school, and I was still much too young to start. Although we moved to America, we visited my family in Tajikistan every other summer, and still do. I am very close to my brother. He is two years older than me, and sadly started college this year at UVA. I am happy for him but miss him a lot at the same time. He always helped me a lot in school and I never questioned him, for he went to Ocean Lakes for the Academy there and graduated as the validictorian. I wish to become a dentist, and I am currently in the dental program at votech. I am hard working and sure that I can make it all the way. I am really loking forward to learning from you this year and all the books we will be reading,

Sincerely, Mekhrona Rakhimova.