Less Intermediate 1-1

Dear Adam,
Hi! Remember me? (Just a joke!) I (write, not) _haven’t written_ to you for at least six months, but that’s not long enough for you to forget me! I think about writing to you often, but I (be, not)

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a good correspondent for the last few months. You (hear, not)

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from me for such a long time because I (be)

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really busy. For the last few months, I (work) 4)



full-time at a shoe store and (go)

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to school at the local community college to study business and computers. When I (write)

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to you six months ago—last April, I think—I (go)

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to university full-time and (study)

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  anthropology. A lot  of things (happen)

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since then.

At the end of the spring semester last June, my grades (be)

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terrible. As a result, I (lose)

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my scholarship and my parents’ support. I really (mess)

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up when I (get)

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those bad grades. When I (show)

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my grade report to my parents, they (refuse)

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to help me with my living expenses at school anymore. They (feel)

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that I was wasting my time and their money, so they (tell)

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me to get a job. So last June I (start)

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working at a shoe store: Imperial Shoes at Southcenter Mall.  I (work) 19)



there ever since.

Most of the people I meet are nice—and normal.  My favourite customers (be)

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people who (know)

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what they want when they (enter)

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the store. They (come)

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in, (point)

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at one pair of shoes, politely (tell)

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me their size, (try)

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the shoes on, and then (buy)

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them, just like that. They (agonize, not)

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for a long time over which pair to buy.

I (learn)

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one important thing about working at the shoe store: I (want, not)

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 to sell shoes as a career. I (need)

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a good education that (prepare) 32)



me for a job that I can enjoy for the rest of my life.  And even though I love studying anthropology, I (decide)

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that a degree in business and computers will provide the best career opportunities.

          Now I (work)

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part-time at the shoe store and (go) 35)



to school at the same time. I (want, always)

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to be completely independent and self-reliant, and now I (be)

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. I (have)

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to pay every penny of my tuition and living expenses now.  Ever since I (lose)

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my scholarship and (make) 40)



my parents mad, I (be)

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completely on my own. I’m glad to report that my grades at present (be)

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excellent, and right now I (enjoy)

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my work with computers. 

In the future, I (continue)
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to take courses in anthropology whenever I can fit them into my schedule, and I (study)

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anthropology on my own for the rest of my life, but I (pursue) 46)



a career in business.  Maybe there is some way I can combine anthropology, business, and computers. Who knows?

          There. I (tell)

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you everything I can think of that is at all important in my life at the moment. I think I (grow)

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up a lot during the last six months. I (understand) 49)



that my education is important.  Losing my scholarship (make) 50)



my life more difficult,  but I (believe) 51)



that I (take, finally) 52)



charge of my life.

          Please write. I’d love to hear from you.
Love, Jessica