What makes XTMPI the superior choice?

An inexhaustible source of inspiration, love and education; that’s what you are Xenia. I will never stop learning from you.

Marita Skoullou (mother of one of my students – 2011)

Thank you for your active presence in the lives of our children and in our lives. You give us knowledge, you teach our kids English in an amazing way but above all you give a piece of your soul!

Vasos Christophorou (father of one my students – 2013)

Dear Ms. Xenia,
After attending your classes for 9 years, I simply need to tell you that I am not ready to leave you forever. This journey has been an unforgettable experience, a magnificent way to educate me not only on an educational level but also on a personal, psychological, character level. Throughout your teaching and through the years in your school I have grown as a learner but also as a person: I learned perfect English, passed my University Exams with distinction but I also matured, learnt to behave, to respect, to have values important to a child, a teenager and a decent adult. If someone asked me what will stay from my years with you I would answer the following:
The smell of your coffee, mixed with the essential oils you always used in class with a diffuser to boost our energy and fix our mood, your huge smile and very distinctive voice always asking us how we felt or complimenting us on our looks, hair, clothes when we felt that nothing on us looked right; But above all, what will always be carved in my heart will be the way you looked at us, filled with love, warmth. We felt as if you gave birth to all of us; and here I need to add a huge thank you for always believing in us as a professional, as a woman, as a teacher, as a mother. You believed in us and in our capabilities when we ourselves doubted ourselves. I will always remember the laughter, the tears of gratitude, the stress relief techniques that always accompanied our lessons which were lessons of English but above all, lessons of life, of struggle of not giving up, of learning to look at everything form a different perspective; they were lessons of exceeding limits, of failing and trying again, of being taught the right techniques to tackle language exams, of using music and songs to learn vocabulary which would never be forgotten. Hard and unpleasant exam papers became creative games by you and difficult vocabulary became a competition between us and we had no option but to learn and to learn with style and with fun and with love. But we did not only learn language; we learnt moral lessons from your personal stories on love, survival, poverty, even funny cooking tips which became amazing speaking lesson like the amazing real story “how to protect your canary from ending up in your soup’ which stirred up so much creative writing in our class. As you can see I can speak for hours about my positive memories from your lessons.
Thank you Ms. Xenia, mother, teacher, friend. You will always be in my heart.

Rafaella Solomou (17 years old – Class of 2018)

Another life lesson! We needed to be shaken and to be puzzled and to be pushed! Thank you, your lively, passionate speech creates personalities and awakens consciousness. Keep being so creative. We need to realize that just becoming parents does not make us experts. We need your help so keep offering it to us.

Irene Koulle (mother of two of my students – 2015)

My Dear Xenia,
It is with great respect that I would like to express a huge thank you. Thank you for teaching us and for leading us. Your example and ability to positively affect us is unique; I remember you years ago as my own teacher at college and I can confess that the English I know I learnt it from you. Thank you for your efforts to make us better people and better parents. Congratulations! I love you!

Anna Ioannides (mother of one of my students – 2013)

Good morning Ms. Xenia,
I have just published my first book and I felt the need to send you this email, 20 years after the last day I saw you in class as my English teacher. I am Lysandros Lysandrou; I don’t know if you remember me. I am the young man whose English were horrible, the boy who told you after the first lesson ‘Ms. Xenia, you need to know that I will never learn English’. Your answer is still carved in my memory. You looked at me with your expressive eyes, you smiled at me and said, ‘what is your name?’ ‘Lysandros’, I answered and then you addressed me with my name and said ‘great name…. well, my dear Lysandros I want you to remember that in my class the word ‘never’ and ‘cannot’ are not allowed. Will you make a deal with me? Say ‘of course I can learn English, because my friend Ms. Xenia will make sure I will’ and you gave me your hand for the handshake and the deal. And I believed you. And you did it. In the two years that followed I followed you everywhere. At break time, in the cafeteria, in class… with lots of questions; and you always had an answer and a simplified way of explaining the most difficult concepts.
My published story has a lot of ‘Xenia’ in it. The most inspiring and touching thing about your teaching is not the typical things that every English teacher or book teachers us; the most inspiring and memorable lessons were the messages you instilled in our minds and souls though story telling and through songs. You taught us to never give up and to pursue our dreams no matter what. You taught us to stand before an audience and to present without fear but always with respect to our audience and their needs. You taught us not to be afraid of mistakes and failure because our failures and mistakes can become our teaching tools. In my story, the one I published, the hero turns his problem into a strength; and it is definitely not a coincidence that my story has its own song… just like the memorable songs you always used in class to teach us language. Thank you teacher Xenia. You deserve this title. Follow the link to my book on amazon and if you like it please send me a note.

Lysandros Lysandrou (Frederick University Course)