3 Read the text again. Make two lists, giving the positive and negative aspects of moving to Astana according to Alina. Can you think of any other possible positives or negatives? Do you think Alina is glad that she moved?

The BRIT school in Croydon, South London, is no ordinary school. You won’t see whole classes struggling to stay awake in French lessons. You won’t find the students at this school hanging around the park (7) __ K. when they should be in class__. You’re more likely to find students mixing tracks, practicing their dance routines or doing voice exercises. Homework could be anything from writing an episode of a soap (8) __I. or editing a pop video _ to choreographing a dance. (9) __F. hard as it may be to believe __, this is a school which kids actually want to go. There are over 750 rising stars between the ages of 14 and 19 at the BRIT school. Everyone under 16 studies normal GCSEs (10) __C. along with performing art qualifications __. After 16 you can do vocational courses and A-levels in media-related subjects (11) ___ G. like film production ___. As it’s the UK’s non-fee paying entertainment school, competition for places is tough. The children have summer holidays like other kids, but, (12) ___B. after the holidays ___, the summer is busier than ever. Each year, hundreds of teenagers, sponsored by Sky Television, follow a three-day residential course at the school, and some of these may join the school as full-time students (13) __ H. making it in the pop world __. Walk into the school on a typical day in the summer and you will find an astonishing range of activities going on. There may be the sound of bongos coming from the World Music class, (14) __A. a talk show going on in the TV studio __ or a group of students gathered in a recording studio. Everywhere you look, (15) __D. you find fascination and concentration __ – why couldn’t school always be like this.

I don’t like a morning. And the morning reciprocates my feelings. 
If the government dispensed awards for heroic attempts to get up from a 
bed, I would be the full holder of several decorations. And I know, that I 
am not alone in my dislike for the morning. Many people meet the 
morning of a new day without a blissful smile upon the face. Like brittle 
vessel with precious wine, we split from any sharp movement and sound. 
For the sake of justice it is necessary to tell, that occasionally, under 
pressure of my more cheerful comrades, I try to struggle with myself. 
Mornings I go in for sport, I torture my sleepy organism by contrasting 
shower bath, I listen to cheerful marches and make a breakfast. I have 
passed all these stages.