ADAlılar | Issue 4 | January 2022 

I remember the time when I was fifteen, glossy
magazines were a rarity. Some people brought them
from abroad, some bought on a black market. I was
always impressed by bright and high-quality pictures
that showed beautiful and happy faces (mostly
foreigners), expensive cars, or scarce goods which
you could hardly have seen in your life. Publishing by
school students their own a magazine was something
out of fantasy. We could only dream of it. The best
thing that we could have done was to create was a
wall newspaper. We simply took a piece of Whatman
paper, and one of us who had a better handwriting,
wrote on it. We also added some drawings, made by
colored pencils.
Time has passed, and everything has changed
now. Publishing a school magazine is no longer a
dream. ADA school students have been publishing
their own magazine, ADAlilar, since 2019, right after
the school was founded.
And here we are with our fourth edition! With new,
dedicated, inquiring, and creative team, interesting
stories, poems, wonderful interviews, photographs,
and many other things ADAlilar wanted to share with
you.
I would like to express my gratitude to heads of
divisions of the editorial board and their teams, to
everyone who contributed to this issue of ADAlilar
School Magazine. I am also grateful to ADA School’s
English instructor Ms. Regsana Kerimova for her help
with editing and proofreading. I have to thank tens of
students for their support.
Samir Javadov
Editor-in-Chief
ADAlilar School Magazine