Topic: Imagine that you are preparing for a trip. You plan to be away from your home for a year. In addition to clothing and personal care items, you can take one additional thing. What would you take and why? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice.
Essay:
Travelling is great, and I always feel excited when I think about journeies. In order to have a good trip, people have to prepare carefully a lot of things, such as clothing, food, personal items. As far as I am concerned, one significant possession that I always carry beside me when I go to travel is my smartphone because it is portable and practical. Through smartphone, I can always keep in touch with my family, and it has a lot of funtion which are tolerant of all my demand, such as camera or music player.
To begin with, it is undeniable that technology has developed very strongly and quickly in recent years, so that make people can contact to others whenever they need through their smartphone. Therefore, when I go to travel far from my home, smart phone is a good way for me to communicate to family and friends. For example, I can call to my mother when I am on the train or when my air plant has landed, and she will be happy if she can receive my call because she always take care of me. Beside, the smart phone is small and portable, so I can bring it easily with me to every where.
In addition, nowadays, a smart phone is not simple as a phone, it became an integrated device with a lot of features, such as playing music, taking picture and connecting to the Internet. As a result, I can use my cell phone to do a lot of tasks while I am taking a trip, and my trip will be more interesting thanks to my cellphone. If I see many landscape in new place, I can use my phone to take some pictures, and I will upload them to my social networks such as facebook or yahoo blogs and show them to all my friends. During the trip, I may feel bored because of being homesick. However,I can listen to music on my cellphone to entertain.Thus, I will forget my bore and enjoy my journey.
In brief, traveling is interesting and exciting time, and people should prepare very carefully for it. For the reasons that I have mentioned above, I believe that my smartphone is very critical thing which will always beside me in all trips because of communication and its funtions.
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