Dear aunt Liza!

Im writting you this letter to tell how I appreciate the help you give me. Im spending
money wich u sent to me last week on books. I need this books to prepare for my exams.
Also i wanna tell you how im getting on my first university term. Im enjoy my study very
much! Of course, I study hard, but spent much time on getting new acquaintances, on getting
closer to the people who I spend the most part of the day with – my course-mates. We often
go to thecinema and cafe ’ together or just walk and talk.I am still living with Helena; you
know, she is Spanish. We arerenting a flat. But now I am looking for something suitable to
liveseparately. The problem is that Helena’s friend comes to our place everyevening, they
listen to music and I cannot study when music is play-ing in the flat. Besides, our flat is far
from the University. That’s why I spend too much time on my way there and back. Some
freshers / freshmen live on campus, which I find very convenient. They say theyare satisfied,
there are all modern conveniences in the hostel, so Iam thinking of moving there.Every
morning we have classes, and I study at the library in theafternoon. Frankly speaking, I am
writing this letter instead of writ-ing an essay about Robert Burns’ poetry, since I am being
terribly lazy today, which doesn’t look like me.Everything is very expensive here, so I am
saving money to buy a winter coat. They say it often snows here in winter. It is already get-
ting colder in the evenings. You know, I like a second-year guy so much! We sometimes
havecoffee at the University canteen. He is a Czech, and, like me, hestudies foreign
languages. He speaks English, Ukrainian and Russian well. Helena says he is dating his
course-mate, but I believe it isnot so.Edinburgh is a good city, but I am missing Odessa and
all of youvery much.Please, take care that my cat doesn’t eat raw meat.See you
soon.Sincerely yours,your niece Kate