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Arizona, June 4, 2004 (Arizona Daily Sun) – Three years ago she knew only enough English to greet a person.
Now Anissa Moussa has her General Equivalency Diploma and will be one of many GED recipients to be honored today.
Moussa and other recipients of the GED will be recognized this evening at Coconino Community College. The ceremony will start at 6 p.m. in the common area of the CCC Lonetree Campus. A reception will follow the ceremony.
Moussa was born in Somalia. When she came here, she was too old to go to high school, so she attended adult education classes at Rio Salado College in Phoenix.
"I love education, but I never thought that I would go to school in the United States, and I feel glad and very fortunate because in my country, and most countries in Africa, there are no second chances for education," Moussa wrote in an essay.
She then moved up to Flagstaff and continued studying for the GED at the LEARN Center at Northern Arizona University.
Moussa is taking classes at CCC and she volunteers at Flagstaff Medical Center. She wants to be a registered nurse.
The GED tests in five areas: writing, social studies, science, literature and the arts, and mathematics. People must score at least 35 on each test and have an average score of 45 on the five tests.
To be eligible to take the test, a person must be at least 18 years old, although people between 16 and 18 years old may be tested if they have parent or guardian permission and have not attended school for at least six consecutive months.
There is a $25 fee for taking the tests and a $5 per test fee to retake any of the tests.
The GED is available in English, Spanish and French. People have 12 weeks to successfully complete the five tests, which must be taken at an approved testing center.
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