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I Love This City
Gazment Plaka
I love this city because this place makes me feel so good. Every morning when
I’m going to work, I hear so much noise. I like the sound from the subway, from
the cars, from the people and the workers going to work every day—I love these
things.
Back in my country, it was very quiet. I lived in a small town, and we didn’t have a
subway or a lot of people. In my town, we didn’t have traffic. A car moved through
the street maybe once every 10 minutes. Mostly you could hear the wind—and
that was all.
Gazment “Gazi” Plaka emigrated from Albania and has lived in New York City for two years. He
studies English at LaGuardia Community College’s Center for Immigrant Education and Training.
His instructor is Albert Sgambati. Gazi Plaka speaks Albanian, Greek, Italian and English. “I
would like to become a business manager in the future, and I love New York City.”
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