One of the gifts I’m most proud of that ever got in someone was a birthday gift for my father. I surprised him with the drone. It’s not that he hasn’t experienced with flying them or flying anything for that matter but he as a As a person, he’s very gadget oriented and he’s always looking for new fun technologies to explore and make his day more fun. So we had this whole birthday party, a surprise party actually, set it up. And after going through all the different gifts, like our other family members gave him, I went in last and just I remember the smile he gave me, how surprising it was to him that he got an actual drone. He was kind of talking about it for some time, but he never actually had the courage to buy one because he was always afraid he’s going to break it. And that’s not the only reason I chose that gift. I kinda did a lot of research, but most of the other gadgets I found were not even close to the fun part, as a fun level, let’s say, to what a drone would be. And I see him now just take the, every time he takes our dog for a walk, he also takes a backpack with the drone and goes around all kinds of different beaches and tries to get all these like new angles for his videos that he just makes for himself actually. But sometimes he posts it on Facebook now, I think about it.
Band 7+: Describe a gift you recently gave to someone. You should say: who you gave it to what kind of person he/she is what the gift was what occasion the gift was for and explain why you chose that gift.
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One of the gifts I'm most proud of that I ever gave to someone was a birthday gift for my father. I surprised him with a drone. It's not that he hasn't had experience with flying them or flying anything for that matter, but as a person, he's very gadget-oriented and always looking for new fun technologies to explore and make his day more enjoyable. We had this whole birthday party, a surprise party actually, set up. After going through all the different gifts that other family members gave him, I went in last, and I remember the smile he gave me, how surprising it was to him that he got an actual drone. He had been talking about it for some time, but he never had the courage to buy one because he was always afraid he would break it. That's not the only reason I chose that gift. I did a lot of research, but most of the other gadgets I found were not even close to the fun level that a drone would provide. I see him now, every time he takes our dog for a walk, he also takes a backpack with the drone and goes around to different beaches, trying to get new angles for the videos he makes for himself. Sometimes he posts them on Facebook now, come to think of it.
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