Hello, hello, dear listener, and welcome into IEL speaking part two.

Describe a time when you felt proud of a family member.

You should say when it happened, who the person is, what the person did, and explain why you felt proud of him or her.

Rory, give us your story.

Rory's story.

Well, there are lots of times this has happened, really.

My family are a bunch of high flyers in a lot of ways.

But one time that particularly stands out in my mind is when my cousin Rina was accepted into the Jet program,

which is a prestigious English teaching course in Japan.

When it comes to when it happened, it must have been about two years ago,

I think. She had been working really hard on organizing her acceptance and everything related to it

for about a year, and it had paid off rather nicely. As I understand it, it's not an easy program to

get on, and you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get in,

in addition to being an ideal candidate. So it's impressive that she managed to do that,

or both of those things, really. With regard to who she is, like I said, she's my cousin,

but she's not just any cousin. She's several times removed from me, but that doesn't make a difference

as our family is quite close, so an achievement by anyone is always a good thing. She's in her

early 20s now, but at the time I think she would have been in her late teens, at least I suppose

so. And she speaks several languages, so she's not unaccustomed with getting a lot done.

In terms of what she did, or what exactly she did, as I mentioned, it was with the aim of being accepted,

but she had to do things like prove her credentials and qualifications, in addition to going to interviews,

to demonstrate her suitability for the position on the program.

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