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And now we're going to move on to part number two.

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You can go ahead and look at your screen.

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In part number two, you're going to see a topic card on the screen.

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You'll have one minute to take notes and prepare and then you'll have 2 minutes to speak.

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I'll stop you when the one minute is up and let you know when it's time to speak.

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You have your your paper and pencil in front of you.

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Yeah.

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This is.

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Yes.

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So I want you to talk about a time when you felt happy.

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Talk about a time.

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Talk about a time when you felt happy.

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Time is up.

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You now have 2 minutes to speak.

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Please begin speaking now.

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The same one of the times that I felt very happy because I usually am a happy person.

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But one of the times I felt very happy was when I was seeking a university admission in my school.

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I went to the University of Ado-ekiti in Nigeria.

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I had been seeking admission for about three years and I had to travel after my matriculation exams

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to travel all the way to the school to seek the admission.

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When I got there, it was very I was informed that it was very difficult to get admission because my

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score was way below the cutoff.

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I was very hopeful and I was living with my guardians in the city centre while the school was around

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the outskirts.

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My my guardians just kept telling me to be hopeful because I was losing hope.

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It was my third time of writing the matriculation exams.

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And this exam, this exam is usually written once in a year.

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So if I was not selected in the university, this means that I would have to stay home for another year

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without going to the university.

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Eventually, I was able to get the admission into the university despite my very low scores, and this

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was why I was very deflated.

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It looked like an uphill task.

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Impossible.

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But the moment I received the admission letter, I was I was on top of the world.

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I thought it could not be done.

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And even my guardians were all there cheering me up, celebrating me because it looked like I had achieved

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something great in life.

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And now we're going to go ahead and move on to part three.

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Please block your screen again for me.

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And I just have a couple of follow up questions to you about happiness.

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Do you think money can make you happy?

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Money is a very important commodity for everyone in life because it's kind of buy a lot of things,

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although they say money cannot buy everything.

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If you are looking at the relationship between money and happiness, many of the times you can use money

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to buy things that would make you happy.

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So I would say money can buy happiness a great deal, if not all the time.

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And what kind of people are likely to be the most happy?

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That there are different kinds of happiness I would classify mine into intrinsic and extrinsic happiness.

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The people who are going to be the happiest in the world are those who are naturally happy.

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Sometimes it may not be an inborn trait.

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Sometimes we may need to train ourselves to become happy all the time, to be intrinsically happy.

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So the kind of people who don't need to wait for things to happen before they are joyful.

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I would consider them as people who are highly happy.

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What are you happiest?

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Is there a connection between a person's age and their happiness?

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Age is something that increases every year.

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Happiness is a state of mind.

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I would say there is a very direct connection between age and happiness, and that's why we have children.

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Do children who don't have worries in life, they are just happy they have it imbued in them.

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But many, many people, as they grow up, they begin to get weighed down by situations of life and

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they forget to appreciate the little things that keep the world moving.

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So age, if people as people age, they tend to forget that they need to be happy.

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And that's why children are more happier than adults.

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I knew.

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Thank you very much.

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Give me one moment to look at my notes.

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I'll be right with you.

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Just hold on one moment, okay?

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I'm going to give you some feedback now and let you know overall, you did a great job.

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I think your your fluency is one of your strong points.

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You did an excellent job of using of connecting your ideas together.

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And and you really did that very well in terms of not just relying on on transitions, because a lot

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of times students overuse transitions to make connections and they sound very mechanical.

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But your speech was very natural.

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And so I didn't hear any real hesitation in your speech.

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There was never there was never really any self correction.

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And you did a great job of showing an ability to expand and explain whatever your details and or your

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So that was really good.

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Your pace is probably a little bit on the slower end.

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But it's not it's not where it's it's is really going to affect the grade.

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I don't I don't believe so.

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But it is a little bit on the slower if we're talking about on a scale of what's acceptable, your pace

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is a little bit on the slower end.

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But like I say, you're on the you're on the range of what's acceptable.

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But it was never it was never like I thought you were searching for words.

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You weren't searching for words.

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It's just a little bit slower pace.

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But that's that's fine.

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Also, I think vocabulary was one of your strong points.

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I heard some really good words that are uncommon, like landlocked.

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Dandruff.

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Aquarium palatable

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matriculation outskirts.

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You did some you did some good word form changes in terms of hopeful and then you went to losing hope.

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Commodity.

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Intrinsic.

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Extrinsic.

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So in terms of vocabulary, really, really good vocabulary.

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Be careful with sometimes with some of your collocations.

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For example, when we were talking about fishing, you had you had talked about and you said water bodies.

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And really, we would say probably bodies of water.

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Water.

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Water bodies is not really the correct collocation.

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At least, at least at least I'm speaking from an American English standpoint.

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I can't I mean, I don't know if the British say water bodies, but but I'm going to speak from my standpoint.

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It will be bodies of water.

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There was some confusion.

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Not really.

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There was some confusion between using the word mate where I think it would have been better for you

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to use the word enable.

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So for example, you would say it makes me be able to and really as much as much higher form to say

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it enables me to.

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All right.

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Enables me to just the very few grammar mistakes you like you would say every every of his students.

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And it should be each each of his students.

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In terms of anything else, in terms of pronunciation.

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I think that you had mentioned something about something being greatly encouraged and you need to really

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pronounce the Ed.

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I didn't I didn't hear an ID on the end of that word.

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The other small mistakes, like schools you said schools is and it should be.

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Schools are.

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But those are just some.

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Those were those grammar mistakes were not consistent grammar mistakes or they were more just one offs.

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Meaning it happened once, but it wasn't something that was repeated.

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So that means that means that it's not an indication of a real problem.

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And now I will tell you this in part number one, in the very beginning, I mean, you did better as

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you went on.

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But in the very beginning, sometimes the earlier questions I was listening to you and I was like,

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okay, come on.

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Now, to answer the question, what do you what are you doing?

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Answer the question, man, because I would ask you something like What's special about your job?

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And then you you went into a description of what your job was and what you did for your job.

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And and you you were you went on and on and on.

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Eventually, you did talk about what's special about it, but you were giving a lot of you were you

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were giving information that sounded like it was information you all you had ready to say and you wanted

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to say it.

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Do you understand what I'm saying?

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I do understand.

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Yeah, you don't.

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You don't ever want to sound like you're giving prepare two responses.

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You are capable of just answering the question.

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Same thing.

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Same question also.

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Well, that one was really answered when I asked.

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I asked you about who advised you who?

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Who advised you to study that subject?

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And then again, like same thing, you kind of went went off on a tangent in the very beginning.

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And then eventually you kind of got to the question, but it's much better.

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You're you're much better when you just directly answer that question and then explain.

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So, for example, when they're talking about who advise you just say this is this answer, who advised

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you?

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And then explain about the advice that they gave you or something like that.

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But don't give information that's not related to the question.

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You got it.

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Yes.

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Yes, I totally understand that.

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But but but I think overall, you did a good job.

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Your sentence structures, you you showed really good control with your grammatical structures.

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I heard complex sentences.

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I heard compound sentences that were done correctly.

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You did say a conditional sentence.

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That was not done structurally correct.

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You were talking about in part number two, if I was not accepted, this means.

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All right.

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We would have you would have said probably if I was not accepted, it would have meant or.

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But your structure your your grammatical structure with it wasn't correct.

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But I do I would say in terms of scoring.

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I would I would put you at an eight.

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In terms of your scoring, I think you did a really good job.

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I think the lowest possible score that somebody could give you was a 7.5.

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I think you're probably more between an eight, 8.5.

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I think you did a really, really good job.

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You did a good job of paraphrasing.

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I do think your pace was a little bit a little bit closer to native speed.

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It would help out.

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Help out your score.

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But I think, you know, I think you are definitely a solid eight.

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And and so I think you did a really good job.

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The the the corrections are duly noted.

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Good.

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Thank you for the feedback as well.

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You're very welcome and thank you so much for volunteering to participate.

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You represented Nigeria very well.

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So I think I think your fellow Nigerians can look at what you've done and say, okay, that's that should

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be what I should be shooting for.

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And other people around the world also.

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But but thank you very much for for sharing your time and have a fantastic day having me.

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Thank you for having me as well.

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Thank you for the very useful feedback it gives.

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It leaves.

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Space for thought.

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Yeah, but you did.

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You did.

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You did a great job.

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I knew.

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Right.

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And and when I say you're an eight, I mean, I'm grading you.

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Like I said, there were some problems.

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Yeah, but having not fully prepared and everything.

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And there are some areas that if you tighten it up, you'll be more between the range of that eight,

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eight, 5 to 9 where you want to be.

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But you're on the right.

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You're on the right path on it.

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Thank you for the encouragement.

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I'm not going to stop in my personal development.

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I'm sure some day.

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I'm going to keep the door.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Well, thanks a lot, man.

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Take care and have a good night.

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Thank you, too.

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Good night.

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Good night.

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All right.