An invitation to a party

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Automated message: You have two new messages. Message number one, received today at 3.45 p.m.

Hi, it's me. How's it going? I guess you're at work and you don't have your phone on, right? First of all, thank you, THANK YOU for the birthday card and message. I received it this morning. That's so nice of you. I'm organising a little party for my birthday. It's nothing very big – only a few of my best and closest friends. That means you too! We're going to have it at my cousin's house. She lives in the countryside in a nice big house with a swimming pool. I'd love to see you there. It's going to be this Friday. I'll send you the instructions on how to get there later, OK?

Anyway, have fun at work. Don't work too hard, OK? Talk soon.

Automated message: You have two new messages. Message number two, received today at 5.15 p.m.

Aw, you're still not answering your phone! OK, here are the instructions to get to my cousin's house for the party. Are you going to take your car? If you take the car, drive straight on Forest Road until you get to the motorway. Drive past Brownsville and take exit 13A. That's 13A. You drive down the road there and turn left. It's the first big house on the right. OK? If you're taking a bus, you can get the number 80 to Brownsville. Call me when you get there and somebody can pick you up in a car. I can't wait. This is going to be so great!

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Is it easy to get lost in your town? Have you ever given directions to a visitor?

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It´s easy get lost in my city (Bogotá). It´s big and in some places the adresses are dificult. I had to give instructions to visitors and for Bogota is a little bit complex

Hi! I never lost in my town. It's not so big but not small . Of course I have given direction for visitors end sometimes I have taken direction when I didn't know clearly where was some address

Well, I have been lived in the detached house for many years. With my house it's easy to find, and people can't lost place where I give the instruction. Absolutely, I always describe my home for my friends coming to visit or meet together.

I live in Zhezkazgan.The Zhezkazgan is small town. I sure that in the my town impossible to get lost and had n`t a lot of place.If you will can get lost my town you should ask to help of local resident.

I live in a village so no one lost in village. When outsiders come to my village they need to google map. It's very helpful for outsiders. When ever visitors come to my village I help them. it's feel me very great.

Hi I Living In Village and It's Difficult To find my House . But If u Are having Google Map On Your smart phone. Then U Can Easily find my House. If you are facing Hardles to find my House u can connect me On my Cell phone. Ok by Talk soon

Yes, I find it easy to get lost in my city. Even who lives here get lost sometimes, because it's a very big city with more than eight million of inhabitants and many different places to visit. My city is also very visited for tourists from all over the world, and many times I've needed to give instructions and directions for them. This is nice, a great opportuny for me, I can practice my English.

My home town is small and it is not difficult to find.When someone see the billboard,go straight the street and when the time you see the bridge,turn right the road.

No, it isn't. In my humble opinion, Yogyakarta, my hometown, has a useful guidance which is easy to be understood for the tourist. If they read the sign and the map carefully, they would not be lost. Yes, I have. They asked the direction to Malioboro, one of the Yogyakarta's landmark.

It is easy get lost in my town. Some people ask me question like where is this public building and I say I don't know or here is.

Yeah it's easy to get lost in my town, if you're not a regular but necessary to install google Map.

More or less, there are several landmarks in my city, first I live in a district called "Villa de Fátima", this is in the human settlement "Cerro San Cristóbal", and this hill has become a very visited tourist destination in Holy Week. I think once I did give instructions to an American tourist.

Yes, because my city is very big and has many places. But I have never instructed a visitor because the opportunity did not present itself.

Is it easy to get lost in your town? Have you ever given directions to a visitor? Yes because is a big town and had a lot of markets, houses and parks, also we have to give directions to the visitor to make sure he don't lose.

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yes, I'm from a big town of South of Italy, so it's very easy to get lost, every moment there's a lot of traffic. Yes I gave several times some information to tourists or friends to reach the most important places of the city.

My hometown is very small and there enough landmark to give directions to the visitor, its not much difficult to find anything. But work city is very big because its a metro city travel time is much more than my hometown, its very easy peasy to get lost in City like Mumbai.

I arrived to Brazil since 5 years ago , so the country was totally new for me , I remember one day I need to make some documents ,so I decided to use my phone to get the address , while I was using my phone a robber who was on bicycle stolen my phone and I can't catch him anymore, so I returned to my home cause I couldn't found address to make my documents

I always get lost regardless of the places where I go for fist time. I must go somewhere twice or more to memorize. That's why I use Google map at all time.

Yeah, it is easy to get lost in my town, I do :) and I haven't given directions to anybody, I just maybe give directions if the visitor in front of the location :) Thank god we have Google Map.

Thank you for sharing

In a Big city like México City is easy to get lost, for me is a little difficult give some instructions or attend it's. I have to study the route in the GPS before take a road way.

Actually, I was born in big city, Tashkent and there you can get lost so you need to get some directions. At the moment, I am studying and living in a small city of Germany, if a visitor will come here and suddenly they could be got lost the directions then they can get the directions soon seeing as a small city is Hildesheim. You look just at the map or you can also ask for someone on the street. I also gave some direction in South Germany. One women from Canada, she want to ask for main station and I have been directed her to there.

Yes, It is easy to get lost in my town. But I have never given the instruction to the visitors. I usually don't go anywhere that's why.

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no, it is hard to get lost here in jerez, because is a small town, and i have given instructions to drive to a market

I live in a small town, so it's easy to get around without being lost. The police here is really helpful and you can ask them whenever you need

An invitation to a party, which is banned at the moment due to COVID-19! ;|

In our city you can get lost everywere! It hasn't any signs, and it's realy big. You can use your phone (if this phone survives in our bus) to find your way.

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I think that it isn´t very difficult to get lost in the place where I live, the city is smaller than others in the country, only except if you are a tourist. There are signs at the entrances of the city for certain main places like the market.

In my opinion, I don't know the name of each street in my city since I don't go out much, but I can locate myself and if I have given help to the people who have asked me, either indicating a landmark or a store.

The address to get to my house is the following. If you take a bus, it must be the Fleet Pichincha or the Queen, either, stay at the stop at the mechanic entrance, turn right and walk straight about six blocks, until you reach a green gate next to a greenhouse. to the right the two-story house, white there it is. If you are walking, they are the same instructions above to get to my house. Only you can do it only from the Y of Cuzubamba since it is a bit far.

well actually I remember i gave someone diriction to the ministery of education in my city he had some work to do there I got mistaking in the road name later i remembered that I've getten very upsat for that but it's not on purpes.

Here are the instructions to get to my house. If you take the car, drive straight on Sejong Road until you get to the Haknare Bridge. Drive past Haknare Bridge and get to the Maum Road. You drive down the Maum Road there and turn left. Go straight about 500m and turn right then you can find a big apartment on your left.

i sometimes gave directions to strangers.

i have lived in my town since i have born so its difficult to get lost in my town i know every inch in my town. My town is very big and old one so we have so many of visitors every year and they have their guide so its difficult to give one of them the directions.

Hi, i live in a town city that is big enough, it is simply featured with wide lands and desert as well, So there are a huge area without any buildings such as factories or appartements, that is going to be fine and more comfortabale to visitors' self while are hunging out or just kickabout some time. It is hardly somebody gets lost that is because not crowded , bustling and dirty city so that i am talking about . For me i have given direction to foreingers many times, when they are asking me for missing place and if i know that place i will have to direct them to find their place in a easy way. That's it . Thank you.

I have given instructions to get to any address but actually is too hard even in my native language.

As my town is a little big, some foreigners don't know the name of the places. So , I sometimes give directions for them and they say "Thank You".

Fortunately, nobody can get lost in my town, because it's a small country and today technology help us to find our way by using google map or GPRS. But if you go to the mountains, because my Country well knows about the wonderful mountains that are frequently visited by tourists you can get lost, in that green paradise. I remember last year, I gave some direction and advice to some tourist that were interested to visit mountains. But first, I researched the location, just to be pretty sure that I will help them with right information.

It isn't easy to get lost in my town because the roads here are wide and people follow the traffic lights very well. If you travel to my town by motorbike, you can arrive anywhere with just an internet-connected smartphone with the Google map app. Or you can catch a taxi at Long Khanh Market and ask the driver to take you to arrive at the place that you want.

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Here are the instructions to get to my house. Are you going to take your car? If you take the car, drive straight on Almatar St. until you get to Alothaim Mall. Drive after Bus Station and take the exit to Al Gaysh St. You drive down the road there till the last of it. Then, turn left with the circle. It's the first big building. You will find my apartment No.1 on the first floor.

yes. one day we have been in an old and traditional house suddenly i have saw two visitors have been confuse and was talking together. so they started walking and came to first point . they turned around themselves. so i showed exit board .

In my town it is dufficult to get lost, because the city where i live isn`t very big and roads and steets are wide enoght. There are no many places. But the place where my home located is quite confused. Because many of them look the same so you can get lost here. Sometimes I meet the people who cannot find some particular house so I give direstion to them if I know.

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An invitation to a party

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