{"id":3573,"date":"2020-05-15T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:34:09","slug":"from-esl-to-undergrad-winning-outstanding-esl-student-of-the-year-is-only-the-beginning-for-zahraa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/2020\/05\/15\/from-esl-to-undergrad-winning-outstanding-esl-student-of-the-year-is-only-the-beginning-for-zahraa\/","title":{"rendered":"From ESL to Undergrad: Winning Outstanding ESL Student of the Year is Only the Beginning for Zahraa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3574\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/2020\/05\/15\/from-esl-to-undergrad-winning-outstanding-esl-student-of-the-year-is-only-the-beginning-for-zahraa\/screen-shot-2020-05-19-at-10-38-23-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-10.38.23-AM-e1589899537685.png\" data-orig-size=\"403,369\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Zahraa-ESL-award-winner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-10.38.23-AM-1024x787.png\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3574\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-10.38.23-AM-e1589899537685-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-10.38.23-AM-e1589899537685-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-10.38.23-AM-e1589899537685-218x200.png 218w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/center-global-education\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-19-at-10.38.23-AM-e1589899537685.png 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Let&#8217;s hear it for Zahraa, the first-ever winner of the Outstanding ESL Student of the Year Award! At the end of Spring 2020, Zahraa received a cash prize of $100.<\/p>\n<p>Zahraa, who is from Iraq, completed her first semester at UTC as an English as a Second Language student. She worked hard to improve her English, and this fall, she has returned to UTC as a biology major.<\/p>\n<p>During CGE&#8217;s End-of-the-Year Celebration in May, Zahraa delivered a beautiful speech for a virtual audience \u2014 including many of her family members back home in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I would like to thank the Center for Global Education for honoring me with this award. I am thankful for what I have achieved in this semester. I have always wanted to be more knowledgeable about other countries&#8217; culture, and that is what international education means to me. The thing that I love about UTC and especially the Center for Global Education is that everyone is ready to share their culture and happy to hear about your culture too. <strong>My biggest lesson from this year is that working hard will always pay off, whatever you do. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today I am a better person because of my study in ESL and I hope that I will continue studying at UTC and making everyone proud of me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Special thanks to my teachers, my family, and my uncle and his wife who supported me during this semester. Thank you all for everything.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Zahraa! We are so proud of your English progress, and we&#8217;re glad you are sticking around as an undergraduate student. 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