The story of Elisa

"La historia de Elisa"
Spanish B2 writing exercise

This is the story of the moment Elisa finally chose to change her life.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "suffocating", "patience", "resignation letter" and "barefoot".

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into Spanish

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Elisa lived in a suffocating city. Every day she crossed the same streets to get to a drab office where work wore down her patience and routine, little by little, erased her joy. One night, she felt an inner silence so profound it shook her to her core. That sign changed everything forever. At dawn, she wrote her resignation letter and left her keys on the table. Hours later, a train took her to the distant sea. On the coast, she found a small guesthouse and rented a simple room. Every morning she walked barefoot along the beach, letting the wind sort her thoughts. In the end, Elisa chose a life of her own and, for the first time in a long time, she truly breathed.

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