During my third year of my undergraduate studies, I found a wallet that was lying on the football field. When I was passing the football field, I noticed something that was a bit yellowish in color. Usually, money bags are brown, but it was a bit yellow. So I went there for a closer inspection and after that, I found that there were some money in the wallet and also an ID card. After seeing that, I thought to myself, what should I do next? It had a lot of money in it, around $300. In my mind, one thing came up that what if I was in a situation, if I had lost $300, $500, it would have impacted my life greatly. I would have been depressed and sad for a couple of weeks. So I thought to myself, why not just return this to the original owner? And there was an ID there, but I thought to myself, the actual procedure that should have been there is to return the wallet to the university authorities, lost and found department. After that, subsequently, I went to the lost and found department. They took my details, which year I was studying, which department I was from. And they had the identification card. The lost and found department actually has a website. There they post the general description of the wallet. And if the user can say how much money that there was inside the wallet or what belongings that there is, then the user will be able to take the wallet or any object, whatever that is. Put in the lost and found. So after a couple of days, I was notified then from the lost and found department that original owner was able to retrieve this wallet and wanted to meet me. After some time, I was free around next month. So I met the owner of the original wallet and he took me to a nice place for a dinner as a gesture of my work.
Band 8+: Describe a time when you picked up an item that someone else lost You should say: What the item was When and where you found it What you did after finding it And explain how you felt about the experience
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During my third year of undergraduate studies, I found a wallet that was lying on the football field. When I was passing the football field, I noticed something that was a bit yellowish in color. Usually, wallets are brown, but this one was a bit yellow. So I went over for a closer inspection and found that there was some money in the wallet and also an ID card. After seeing that, I thought to myself, what should I do next? It had a lot of money in it, around $300. In my mind, one thought came up: what if I were in a situation where I had lost $300 or $500? It would have impacted my life greatly. I would have been depressed and sad for a couple of weeks. So I thought to myself, why not just return this to the original owner? There was an ID there, but I thought the proper procedure would be to return the wallet to the university authorities' lost and found department. After that, I went to the lost and found department. They took my details, including which year I was studying and which department I was from. They had the identification card. The lost and found department actually has a website where they post a general description of the wallet. If the owner can specify how much money was inside the wallet or what belongings were there, then they will be able to retrieve the wallet or any object that was put in the lost and found. After a couple of days, I was notified by the lost and found department that the original owner was able to retrieve the wallet and wanted to meet me. After some time, I was free the following month, so I met the owner of the wallet, and he took me to a nice place for dinner as a gesture of appreciation for my help.
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