I was born in 1989 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR, which after the breakup of the Soviet Union became Uzbekistan. I speak Uzbek, Russian and English. I'm currently learning Arabic and planning on learning Spanish. I went to a Russian school in Tashkent in 1996. After completing my ninth grade, I moved to the United States in 2004 to live with my mother, a doctor who moved to New York back in 2000. A week after arriving in New York, my mother sent me to a public High School in Long Island City. Leaving my family and all of my relatives and closest friends that I grew up with and finding myself in a public high school in one of the less appealing areas of Queens with no spoken English was how my life in America began. After attending Long Island City High School for almost a year (thanks to the only person who put up with my broken English and gave me the motivation to study, my mathematics teacher Thanks for your time.
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson