Believe it or not, I missed taking the speaking.
Part of my first-ever Isles test, I booked my Isles test for September 9th, chuseok cause weekend.
I needed a result right away, so I had no choice but to register for the earliest possible test.
I did not want to take a test just before the holiday, but my school already sent me the notification for English test submission.
I Furthermore, I also wanted to get it over and done with over as soon as possible.
So even though wage is chuseok cause weekend, I pushed through with it.
Fortunately Karen, my good friend friend, was also scheduled for the same test and , and we purposely booked in the same testing center so that we could go together for the exam.
We had slots for the 11 a.
m.
speaking test and 1 p.
m.
Reading Reading, Writing and listening test off.
We're speaking schedules were just twenty minutes apart, so we decided to meet in the lobby of the center on the day of the test.
I woke up early so that I would not be in a rush to travel.
I live in Daegu which is about two hours away from Gangnam where I was scheduled to take my exam.
I Furthermore, I bought my 8:10 a.
m.
kfax fax ticket the night before just to make sure that I would be on time by 7:45.
I Furthermore, I was ready and good to go.
Unfortunately Unfortunately, be something very unusual and unbelievable happened to the KTX transport system that day.
I have no idea why but , but the train was around forty minutes late and in all my years of traveling, the KDX I had never experienced it being late.
Once Once, it was delayed for about ten minutes because of a power Interruption.
But never ever late for an hour.
It was an unbelievable occurrence.
And I know they, you know, it would be quite difficult to convince people to believe it happened.
I immediately called the testing center, but was just told that I need to try my best to be on time by 10:30.
I was still on the train train, knowing that at this rate I could not make it on time.
I Furthermore, I arrived at Gangnam station at exactly eleven am am, my in my speaking test schedule.
I Furthermore, I ran as fast as I could to the testing center but , but the examiner marked me as absent.
I Furthermore, I even had a paper from the train station, office certifying the delay that day but , but it was of no use use, my friend Karen was there too.
And she was also distressed because I was not there for Thursday.
I speaking I'm speaking time slot.
I was devastated.
Of course, I thought about not taking the rest of the tests in the afternoon as I would have no score for speaking anyway, but I decided against it and thought about it as a very expensive a costly practice test instead.
Of course course, I booked a new test the weekend after.
And this time I decided to stay overnight in Gangnam Gangnam, just to be sure that I wouldn't be late and , and I wouldn't miss the test for any reason ever again.