An exciting visit to the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria

On December 13th, our 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th-grade medalists who performed brilliantly at the World Scholar's Cup, Tournament of Champions, at The University of Yale, USA, made an exciting visit to the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria. They were warmly welcomed by Ambassador Herro Mustafa, who was looking forward to congratulating them on their success and achievements.

Of course, it was important to ask and find out from the students what they were able to learn during the competition, and the unanimous answer from everyone was that you can be very good and achieve different things, but when you are in a team, you can achieve everything. Ambassador Mustafa responded to this with a well-known and famous quote by the sportsman Michael Jordan, which completely proves the truth of the children's answer: " Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

After the warm welcome, everyone learned about the different departments of the Embassy, with Ambassador Mustafa explaining in detail her responsibilities as a diplomat, what the Ambassador's mission is and that she is actually the face of the USA in Bulgaria and feels extremely proud to represent her country. Her duties and those of the Embassy are diverse, and she shared some of the main activities they have focused on, such as helping with domestic violence prevention, integrating different communities, exchanging fruitful international ideas and meaningful travel. According to her, going to a distant place is always very different from what is described in the books, and when Ambassador Mustafa asked the medalists if they liked Yale, they all exclaimed in unison and affirmatively, "Yes!". Then she curiously questioned more details of the past competition, the areas that were important and determining the success achieved, as well as whether our students have already chosen a future profession and know what their vocation is. Ivan M., a student of St. George International School and Preschool, who has participated in science competitions many times with many first places and is a current mentor to the successful participants, spoke more about the World Scholars' Cup, the themes on site and how everyone contributed to the significant success.

Ambassador Herro Mustafa shared that the Embassy offers internships that would be extremely interesting for our students, distributed gifts after the visit, and the students and the team of St. George International School and Preschool, in turn, gave her the book of Maxim Ivanov - "Neverest", a former graduate of the school and a current student at Stanford, USA. Ambassador Mustafa was invited to visit our school and she accepted the invitation cordially and confirmed that she would be happy to do so. The feeling after such a meeting always gives rise to positive emotions, with which everyone remained and proves that the development of each one of us happens through the community and the community develops thanks to each one of us. After that, success is inevitable!

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