I am going to talk about the present that I gave to someone. The person that I gave it to was a very good friend of mine at the time. His name was Kaliya and he came from India. I knew him because we studied together at a landward school in Cambridge. Although we were from different backgrounds and cultures, we caught on really well and we had the same sense of humour, so we became very good friends. The present was a picture that had been painted of the river Cam in Cambridge. It was not so big, maybe around 10 inches by 14 inches, but it was very beautiful. It came in a gold-plated frame and the picture had been drawn by a particularly well-known Cambridge artist. It had been signed by this person as well. It’s the first time I’ve given this person a present and I guess it’s quite different from presents that I’ve given to other people before. I don’t recall ever giving someone a picture actually. If I’m buying for family, then I’ll usually buy clothes or maybe some jewelry if it’s a special occasion. Normally, when I’ve bought something for friends, it’s something more jokey, so we can have a laugh about it, nothing that serious. The reason why I decided to give this particular gift is because we had spent a lot of time together in Cambridge and we’d had some really fun times punting on the river Cam. That’s obviously why I thought this was an appropriate present. We used to go punting at least once a week, sometimes a couple of times. On one occasion, there was a group of about 10 of us that went down there and we spent the whole day sitting by the river in the sun and as usually went on a boat trip together. We all have a lot of photos to remind us of this great day. So my friend, Kalyia, is the person that I gave a present to and this was because I felt it would always remind him of the fun times that he had and also of Cambridge.
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I am going to talk about the present that I gave to someone. The person I gave it to was a very good friend of mine at the time. His name was Kaliya, and he came from India. I knew him because we studied together at a landward school in Cambridge. Although we were from different backgrounds and cultures, we got on really well and had the same sense of humor, so we became very good friends. The present was a picture that had been painted of the River Cam in Cambridge. It was not very big, maybe around 10 inches by 14 inches, but it was very beautiful. It came in a gold-plated frame, and the picture had been drawn by a particularly well-known Cambridge artist. It had been signed by this person as well. It was the first time I had given this person a present, and I guess it was quite different from presents I had given to other people before. I don't recall ever giving someone a picture, actually. If I'm buying for family, I usually buy clothes or maybe some jewelry if it's a special occasion. Normally, when I've bought something for friends, it's something more jokey, so we can have a laugh about it, nothing that serious. The reason I decided to give this particular gift is that we had spent a lot of time together in Cambridge, and we had some really fun times punting on the River Cam. That's obviously why I thought this was an appropriate present. We used to go punting at least once a week, sometimes a couple of times. On one occasion, there was a group of about 10 of us that went down there, and we spent the whole day sitting by the river in the sun, and as usual, we went on a boat trip together. We all have a lot of photos to remind us of this great day. So my friend, Kaliya, is the person I gave a present to, and this was because I felt it would always remind him of the fun times he had and also of Cambridge.
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