Here comes another Daily Dose of Inspiration from Ionuț Muntean, who has been a Shakespeare School student for 7 years now. He’s been making full use of his English knowledge. His way to SUCCESS is surely paved with English words, as you can see from this interview. He is 18 years old and currently an 11th grader at Cantemir Voda High School. He has actually been studying English since kindergarten.
How long have you been attending Shakespeare School? What is your highest English language qualification?
I’ve been a Shakespeare School student for the last 7 years. I started coming here when I was a 5th grader and I was so impressed that I never left. 🙂 I can’t lie about the fact that there were times when I really felt like I wanted to quit, but I am pleased to announce that I’m over those thoughts and I’m looking forward to new courses here. The only problem is that it seems that I’ve done almost all the possible courses available but I sincerely hope to continue with the TOFEL course in autumn. My highest qualification so far would be the IELTS exam which I’ve taken on the 21st of April and for which I am still waiting for the results, but before that I took a CAE exam.
You actually attended our DESTINATION UK workshop three times. Why? 
I must say that the DESTINATION UK workshop is like a great melody you just fall in love with, you can’t help but listening to it again and again and again … If you want the whole story, then I must tell you that, I’ve never always wanted to go to university in the UK. But those thoughts started coming up to me somewhere in the 10th grade. One day, I happened to see the poster about the workshop in my high-school, so I decided to give it a go. Again, this is another great decision I’ve made. I’ll never forget the first time I went to it… the experience was so impressive, mind-blowing, new, that I felt like I wanted to do it again. So, last autumn, when the workshop took place again, I came with some of the friends I’d made at Cambridge during the summer school. We took the whole front row of course.:) The magical thing about the workshop is that it gives me the feeling that I’m already in the UK studying or at least on my way, and it makes me forget about all the silly day-to-day things and problems I have here, and feel like I am really taking a step forward in my life. Of course, the week after the workshop I am already starting to pack for university and it gets me into a trance where I feel amazing. But as 12th grade is coming soon, as well as the BAC exam and the university application, I feel that this autumn, I must go again and refresh the knowledge I have from the previous two years. 🙂 I can’t help it! It’s just a marvelous experience for me and I don’t want to miss it again… Also, I do have a tendency to forget a lot, so this time, being the last time I can go, I must be extra careful.
You’ve done so many things so far, what is your biggest dream/ambition? 
Since the experience with the DESTINATION UK workshop, I feel that my life has finally got a direction and I finally feel that I have something to look forward to and concentrate, give my best at it. Most importantly, it’s not a school football championship or a local essay competition but something out of which at the end, I will really look back at it and say proudly that it helped me a lot and it changed my life. I feel that this would be the most important step for me in my future and I really want it to get done so I am concentrating on this goal only, and leaving the billionaire dreams for the others. 🙂
We would like to wish Ionut the best of luck. We are so proud of him, it is students like him that make all our efforts worthwhile. We are looking forward to getting postcards from the UK.
