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Band 6+: What is your favorite holiday, and how do you typically celebrate it?

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My favorite holiday is when I went to Japan with my friend without an agent. We booked our plane, visa, hotel, and arranged our itinerary for 14 days. Since we were going in February, the season was estimated to be spring and winter. We packed several items from our country, such as warm clothes to prepare for the winter and spring season, medications, and dry food. There were many difficulties with independent traveling for the first time, such as missing trains, finding halal food, walking more than 15,000 steps in a day, and spending a lot of money. However, we created many unforgettable memories, enjoyed the beautiful nature, learned how to be independent, and picked up some new language skills.

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My favorite holiday is when I went to Japan with my friend without agent. We booked our plane, visa, hotel and arranged our itinerary for 14 days. Due to we are going in February, the season estimate will be spring and winter. We booked several items in our country such as warm clothes to prepare in winter and spring season, drugs and dry food. also many difficulties independent traveling for the first time such as a missing train hard to buy halal food work more than 15 000 step for a day and spend a lot of money however we have a lot of new memory we cannot forget sexy nature learn how to be independent and new language costarer

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