Well, I remember a long journey that I took by driving my car. It was around two years ago when I had a holiday and was going back to my hometown with my family. I drove my own car and it should have been less than 24 hour journey but in the end it ended up taking over 30 hours. I was going home to spend my holiday and at that time it was the Edelfitri holiday so I planned to celebrate Edelfitri there with my family. I drove the car with my two kids and my wife and I felt at first it was fine. It was okay until around midnight when I had trouble with the car because it suddenly stopped. The engine didn’t work again. I didn’t know why and it was in the middle of nowhere. But it was midnight because it was midnight. There were not many people passing through that way. I stopped and tried to figure out what happened, what was wrong with the core and yeah, it took several hours for me to fix it. But thankfully, I was able to fix the core and resume our journey. In the end I realized that I spent almost 30 hours on the road before I arrived at the destination.
Band 6+: Describe a car journey you made that took longer than expected. You should say: where you were going who you were with how you felt during the journey and explain why this car journey took longer than expected.
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Well, I remember a long journey that I took by driving my car. It was around two years ago when I had a holiday and was going back to my hometown with my family. I drove my own car, and it should have been less than a 24-hour journey, but in the end, it took over 30 hours. I was going home to spend my holiday, and at that time, it was the Eid al-Fitr holiday, so I planned to celebrate Eid al-Fitr there with my family. I drove the car with my two kids and my wife, and at first, I felt it was fine. It was okay until around midnight when I had trouble with the car because it suddenly stopped. The engine didn't work again. I didn't know why, and it was in the middle of nowhere. Since it was midnight, there were not many people passing through that way. I stopped and tried to figure out what happened, what was wrong with the car, and it took several hours for me to fix it. But thankfully, I was able to fix the car and resume our journey. In the end, I realized that I spent almost 30 hours on the road before I arrived at the destination.
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