Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into ILD Speaking Part 2.

Today, here's the topic for you.

Describe a time when a person persuaded you to do something and you were happy about that.

You should say who this person was, when, where it happened, what they persuaded you to do,

and explain why you were happy.

So persuade means kind of like convince, make someone do something, make someone believe something. So they kind of made you do

something. Rory, give us your story. To be honest, I'm seldom persuaded to do anything I don't want to do. But one exception that

does stand out in my mind is when my friend convinced me to come and visit her for a month in

Kyrgyzstan. That's a country in Central Asia. When it comes to exactly who she is,

Chi Wei is a former colleague that started out as a teacher and who laterally became a teacher trainer.

We used to work together in Russia and kept in touch after we both left.

It was during one of those times that we were catching up when she suggested coming to visit and maybe do a little bit of teaching and teacher training. This was

quite a while back. It must have been in mid-2023 when it came up in the course of conversation.

At first, I was a bit reluctant to go since I had a lot on my plate at the moment, or at that moment,

and didn't want to add more on top of that. However, she made the point that I could

continue to work remotely and I could also relax and do things while I was away and I started to

see the upside of what she was on about. So after a bit of time to deliberate and think things through, I decided it might be fun to head off and join her later that year.

As it turned out, it was a great decision and I wound up having a really fun time.

I've actually been back since then and I've not once regretted it, actually.

Hopefully I'll get the chance to go again soon.

But if I don't go back, then at least I'll have had the chance to go a couple of times

and enjoy myself.

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