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Describe an interesting conversation you had with other people.

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I have to admit that I’m not much of a social person – I mean, I am quite shy and inhibited, so most of the time I tend to avoid talking to strangers. But I do remember a time when I had to talk to a complete stranger, and as I remember it was around 5 years ago, on my very
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 trip to Ho Chi Minh City. It
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 just a short conversation, but I can still remember it quite well. I was a 20-year-old freshman back
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, and I was unable to navigate my
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 to the HCMC University of Education where I was about to start studying. Back
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 Google Map’s wasn’t as popular as it is nowadays, so the only
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 I could figure out the
way
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 was by asking a local. So after hours of wandering around, I
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 resorted to asking a
lady
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 who was selling noodles at a food cart near where I was standing. I asked the
lady
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 if she would be so kind to tell me the
way
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 to the HCMC University of Education and she kindly replied by pointing to the big building across the road and saying ’it’s over there’. The university was being renovated back
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, so I was unable to recognise it, but before I went off to study I decided to sit down and order some noodles from the old
lady
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 and have a chat with her. It turns out that she was
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 from Ninh Thuan, which is my hometown. So we ended up chatting for ages about our lives and about how and why we had come to HCMC. You know, I think I found
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 conversation so interesting simply because I found Mrs Kim to be
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 a nice
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. As the conversation went on and I got to know her better I realized that she had had quite a tough life, yet she had managed to maintain
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 a sweet and gentle personality that many other women who have been through similar struggles
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with
of
 her would have lost by now.

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