Daria, 18, Krasnoyarsk

The Directors of the company, Irina and Evan Gray, knew my parents very well before the company effectively and very efficiently made all the arrangements for me to go to New Zealand to study. As I was just 14 my father appointed Mrs Gray to be my guardian until I reach university (she provides a guardianship service for students under 18). I first went to Auckland and studied English for 6 months before going on to High School, starting in Year 10. This year I am enjoying my Year 12 year at the high-profile Takapuna Grammar School: I will go on to ACG next year to do a Foundation course to allow me to enter AUT University in 2019 to study for a Psychology Degree.

Mrs Gray has supported me, as my guardian, in every possible way for the whole time I have been studying in New Zealand. She organised my accommodation, study plan, insurance etc from the time I arrived in Auckland. I have great respect for Mr and Mrs Gray and I think of Mrs Gray as my second mother. Mr Gray has long experience in education and immigration for international students looking after international students. The company organised my visa to New Zealand in a very short time, which my parents and I hugely appreciated.

I have been in New Zealand for three and a half years already and I have never regretted my decision to come to New Zealand as I love this country very much.