Uh, yes, there was a time that I was embarrassed. It was it was a time when I when I lost the slipper at a donation ceremony. I went there to donate, some some food, uh, to the monastery. And when I came back, I couldn’t really find my slipper at all. And I at that time, I was in Ambras. Find the time I lost the slaper, but it was the time when I went out of the monastery. So it was so embarrassing that everyone was looking at me like a like a fool. And, uh, so but I tried to ignore it, but I couldn’t really do that. And I know why they are looking at me like that. And I think it is quite hard to quite hard to say, quite hard to be ashamed of because it is not my fault, but I couldn’t do anything. And I was more embarrassed that it was the time that I was planning to uh, you know, that that was that was I was planning to meet my girlfriend, and it it was also that it was the same syllabus that I lost. Uh, that I lost at that at the donation ceremony. So it was the sliver that my girlfriend bought And I was quite embarrassed to talk about it and to talk to talk about it to my girlfriend after I lost the slipper. And And I was, well, quite shocked, uh, to lose the slipper uh, in a in a monastery. And I do know that, of course, I’m prepared to like the newspaper. What can I say? And although, well, I did walk barefoot, Uh, I I walked back on barefoot to home. I’m I I I did make it that day.
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I remember a time when I was incredibly embarrassed. It happened during a donation ceremony at a monastery. I had brought some food to donate, and when I left, I couldn't find one of my slippers. I was in a panic, searching everywhere. It was so embarrassing because everyone was staring at me, wondering what was going on. I tried to ignore them, but it was impossible. I knew they were looking at me because I was barefoot. It was hard to feel ashamed because it wasn't my fault, but I couldn't do anything about it. What made it even worse was that I was supposed to meet my girlfriend later that day, and the missing slipper was the one she had bought me. I was mortified. I couldn't bring myself to tell her what had happened. It was so strange to lose a slipper in a monastery, of all places. I felt like I was in a movie, something you'd read about in the newspaper. I ended up walking barefoot all the way home. It was a long walk, but I made it.
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