Describe an interesting conversation you had with other people.

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

first

trip to Ho Chi Minh City. It

was

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has been

just a short conversation, but I can still remember it quite well. I was a 20-year-old freshman back

then

, and I was unable to navigate my

way

to the HCMC University of Education where I was about to start studying. Back

then

Google Map’s wasn’t as popular as it is nowadays, so the only

way

I could figure out the

way

was by asking a local. So after hours of wandering around, I

finally

resorted to asking a

lady

who was selling noodles at a food cart near where I was standing. I asked the

lady

if she would be so kind to tell me the

way

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

then

, 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

and have a chat with her. It turns out that she was

also

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

this

conversation so interesting simply because I found Mrs Kim to be

such

a nice

lady

. 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

such

a sweet and gentle personality that many other women who have been through similar struggles

to

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with

of

her would have lost by now.