I would like to start with a small preamble. I have a pretty extended family besides my parents brother with his family. I have two daughters. And when my wife and I want to go somewhere on holiday to have a laid back vacation, we giveave our children to um, my parents. And in return we promised them to buy something from uh, this vacation for our daughters. And there was one time when we were planning to go to the sea. And we know that they adore all this summer entertaining stuff and they like swimming in the sea or in the pool. And it was really hard to. It was really hard to explain them why they should stay with the gry grannies. And we, as usual, promised to buy them some presents, would be uh, in another city. And eventually they agreed to stay. And we went to our holiday, only two of us, and spent a quality time. It was amazing. We were uh, swimming, sun, um, bathing, going to night entertainings. And eventually we totally forgot about the presence. And I felt so guilty because we always bought something to them before and it was so embarrassing. However, we stopped at the um, store, went to the children department and bought them some presents, some gifts, like dolls, which she adore from the cartoons she always uh, saw, she always watched. And uh, eventually it was.
Band 7+: Describe a time you do something guilty to a person in your family
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I'd like to start with a little background. I have a large extended family, including my parents and my brother and his family. I have two daughters, and when my wife and I want to go on vacation for some relaxation, we leave our children with my parents. In return, we promise to buy them something from our trip for our daughters. There was one time when we were planning to go to the beach. We knew they loved all the summer fun, like swimming in the sea or the pool. It was really hard to explain to them why they should stay with their grandparents. As usual, we promised to buy them some presents, since we would be in another city. Eventually, they agreed to stay. We went on our vacation, just the two of us, and had a wonderful time. We swam, sunbathed, and went to evening entertainment. Eventually, we completely forgot about the presents. I felt so guilty because we always bought them something before, and it was embarrassing. However, we stopped at a store, went to the children's department, and bought them some presents, some gifts, like dolls, which she adores from the cartoons she always watches. And eventually, it was...
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