So today, I would like to talk about, um, a very difficult choice that I had to make in my life. Uh, 5 years ago, I I broke my leg when I was ski, uh, with, uh, whisky with my with my parents. And during the during that period, I I play golf, uh, in I play golf and I was in the international, uh, in the initial team, uh, Italian national team. So, uh, so I had I received a lot of, uh, US University scholarship, um, because I I want to go there, but, um, the reason that I changed my mind and decide to remain, uh, in Italy, so in Rome to study, um, was that during I am I broke my leg and so I have to stop playing golf for, like, 6 months. And during this, um, this period, I change my mind. I I understand that, uh, I want to, in the future, I will just play golf for a be, uh, have fun with my friends because a golf is a very a very sport that, um, requires, very important, um, skills you have to develop your skills and my ability have deteriorated in these these months. And why this, uh, decision affect my life? Because I was just when I was child, I was just okay. When I grow up, I want to go in US and Saudi. And but I changed, and I decided the the important things was to say enroll.
Band 4+: 46. Describe a difficult choice you had to make in your life. You should say: What it was? When you had to make it? How it affected your life? And explain why this was a difficult choice to make
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So today, I would like to talk about a very difficult choice that I had to make in my life. Five years ago, I broke my leg when I was skiing with my parents. During that period, I was playing golf and I was in the Italian national team. I had received a lot of US University scholarships because I wanted to go there, but the reason I changed my mind and decided to remain in Italy, in Rome to study, was that when I broke my leg, I had to stop playing golf for like 6 months. During this period, I changed my mind. I understood that in the future, I would just play golf for fun with my friends because golf is a sport that requires very important skills to develop, and my abilities had deteriorated in these months. This decision affected my life because when I was a child, I had planned to go to the US and study, but I changed and decided that the important thing was to stay enrolled.
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