8th April The Director Summer Camps USA P.O. Box 114 Boston, Massachusetts, 02116, USA
Dear Sir/Madam,
I saw your advertisement on our school’s web page for helpers to organize sports activities at your summer camps in the USA and I would like to apply. I am seventeen years old and I am from Bratislava in Slovakia. I speak relative good English as I have studied English at school for many years. I will finish high school next year and I would like to go the university but I
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