Well now I am going to talk about a chocolate cake I received on my birthday. Actually it was a month ago when I was sitting in my room thinking about my problems about university projects and assignments because you know I was juggling with multiple projects at the time and finding them difficult to cope with. And I was not even thinking about my birthday, you know, and also I was not expecting my friends to congratulate me on my birthday. But suddenly the door was open and my roommates entered the room singing a song you know Happy Birthday and I was just speechless and they didn’t know what to say yeah and they decorated the cake with you know my favorite colors and even they brought a message, wishing me success. Overall I was quite happy and thanked my friends for organizing this surprise. But I was not quite happy because as I said I know I was under pressure because I was about to miss my deadlines. So, after eating the cake, I wanted to share my problems with them and luckily they were more experienced than me in dealing with university projects and they shared some useful tips how to deal with and how to cope with university assignments and how to meet deadlines and I was truly happy and very lucky person at the time you know because I could not only celebrate my birthday with great excitement I also learned how to manage stress and how to deal with University of Project Smither. So overall I was quite happy and my birthday was absolutely amazing.
Band 6+: Describe a special cake you received from others.
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Well now I am going to talk about a chocolate cake I received on my birthday. Actually it was a month ago when I was sitting in my room thinking about my problems about university projects and assignments because you know I was juggling with multiple projects at the time and finding them difficult to cope with. And I was not even thinking about my birthday, you know, and also I was not expecting my friends to congratulate me on my birthday. But suddenly the door was open and my roommates entered the room singing a song you know Happy Birthday and I was just speechless and they didn't know what to say and they decorated the cake with my favorite colors and even they brought a message, wishing me success. Overall I was quite happy and thanked my friends for organizing this surprise. But I was not quite happy because as I said I was under pressure because I was about to miss my deadlines. So, after eating the cake, I wanted to share my problems with them and luckily they were more experienced than me in dealing with university projects and they shared some useful tips how to deal with and how to cope with university assignments and how to meet deadlines and I was truly happy and very lucky person at the time you know because I could not only celebrate my birthday with great excitement I also learned how to manage stress and how to deal with university projects. So overall I was quite happy and my birthday was absolutely amazing.
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