Band 7+: Describe an important decision you have made recently. You should say what this decision was, where and when you made it and what the outcome was.

Uh, well, uh, I haven’t made any decision recently. I remember I made a decision long time ago, that was in the year 2001, when I came here to the UAE. And I left everything behind in Syria. Uh, I came here to follow my husband, who was working for a living. Um, I left my family, my relatives, my job there. At the beginning, it was a, uh, difficult decision to leave everything and come here. I came here just to stay with my husband and with my two sons. It was very difficult to me to leave everything. But later I discovered that what I did was the right decision because, uh, in Syria, too many things happened at that time, bad circumstances, whether economic or political. So I didn’t regret. And I came here to my husband, who is the ball of my eye. And when I came here, I felt ground on cloud nine. And I was excited and happy. Uh, I left everything. But I used to live here, and I felt that I made the right decision.