Thank you very much. My goal at some point was my goals were to get married and also to travel. This was around the last day. I had all these planned out that I was going to get married to my girlfriend. Everything was set out and all that. But it came to a It was so difficult to achieve all these things because one, in Nigeria, when you want to get married to your girlfriend or to your students, the first thing you need to do is introduction of yourselves, your families, then the traditional marriage, then the pain the pain or the by-price, then after that she’s the white-haired itself. So all these were really ringing in my head and it was making it so difficult for me to concentrate on my daily activities because I was taking out homergens who did the introduction, money, the funds for it. These were my plans to get my aid, but the difficulty involved was the funds, the money involved to actualize all this. I was working quite alright, but my income wasn’t enough to give me the kind of working out I was looking for. So that I was working out, I was working out. So that was… And the long one, I… And again, to the… Our aftertap, our thing that made it so difficult was by traveling. So what I did was… I helped to… stop the… the plans of the marriage. and suppose I’m going to travel out of the country. So that goal is still ongoing. And you know this time to be achieved. Yeah.
Band 6+: Describe a goal you achieved that initially seemed impossible. You should say: - What the goal was - What made it seem impossible at first - What steps you took to achieve it And explain how you felt after achieving it.
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Thank you very much. My goal at some point was to get married and also to travel. This was around the last day. I had everything planned out; I was going to get married to my girlfriend. Everything was set, but it became so difficult to achieve these things because, in Nigeria, when you want to get married to your girlfriend, the first thing you need to do is introduce yourselves to your families, then have the traditional marriage, and then pay the bride price. After that, there's the wedding itself. All these were really ringing in my head, making it so difficult for me to concentrate on my daily activities because I was thinking about the introduction, the money, the funds for it. These were my plans to get married, but the difficulty involved was the funds, the money needed to actualize all this. I was working, but my income wasn't enough to give me the kind of outcome I was looking for. So that was challenging. Additionally, another factor that made it so difficult was traveling. What I did was help to pause the plans for the marriage and instead focus on traveling out of the country. So that goal is still ongoing, and I know it will be achieved in time.
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