I’ve been saving money to buy a laptop for about a year now and after a year I can say that I’ve finally managed to buy it. The main reason I wanted it was for my work. Since I’m working as a freelance graphic designer, I need a laptop to use it to make designs for my clients, whether it’s 2D or 3D designs such as logos, posters or anything related to graphic design. It was hard saving this amount of money because in my country, electronics in general is very expensive. I worked a part-time job at a supermarket and didn’t buy anything for myself for the entire year to be able to buy this laptop. When I bought it, I felt very happy because it is something that I worked hard for. I didn’t get the money from anyone. I worked hard to get it. I was spending about 12 hours a day at the supermarket to be able to save this amount of money. I can say that that was one of the best moments of my life. In the future, I plan on getting a better laptop from my work as a graphic designer because once I acquired this machine, I was able to get more clients because now I have a device that allows me to make more designs faster.
Band 8+: Describe something (special) that you saved money to buy. You should say: what it was how long it took you to save enough money to buy it why you wanted to buy this thing how you got (or, earned) the money and explain how you felt when (or, after) you bought it.
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I've been saving money to buy a laptop for about a year now, and after a year, I can say that I've finally managed to buy it. The main reason I wanted it was for my work. Since I'm working as a freelance graphic designer, I need a laptop to create designs for my clients, whether it's 2D or 3D designs such as logos, posters, or anything related to graphic design. It was hard saving this amount of money because, in my country, electronics in general are very expensive. I worked a part-time job at a supermarket and didn't buy anything for myself for the entire year to be able to purchase this laptop. When I bought it, I felt very happy because it is something that I worked hard for. I didn't get the money from anyone; I worked hard to earn it. I was spending about 12 hours a day at the supermarket to save this amount of money. I can say that was one of the best moments of my life. In the future, I plan on getting a better laptop from my work as a graphic designer because once I acquired this machine, I was able to get more clients since I now have a device that allows me to create more designs faster.
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