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Day 7: The day I visited Malaysia In 2014, I was supposed to travel to Malaysia with my friends, but I couldn't go with them. I met them 4 days later in Kuala Lumpur, but it was not very simple. I had never traveled before by myself to another country, that's why I was a little worried. In the airport I asked for a taxi. I gave my address to the taxi driver and I thought I was fine. But I wasn't. The taxi driver couldn't find the place I was going, but he said I was in the right street, so I got off and I looked for the number. I asked for help because I couldn't find the place. A guy who was in a hurry answered me, but I almost didn't understand. He said I was in the wrong place. My battery was running out and I had to send to my friends my location. Before I met this guy, I asked information for other people, but we couldn't understand each other. That's why, when I found this one, I couldn't leave him before I get the information I needed. As the guy was in a hurry, I had to follow him. I was paying attention in the area while I was following him to understand where I was, because I wanted to guarantee my safety. I asked him for directions to get to a Seven Eleven store, so I could charge my cell phone. Thank God, I got the information and I could find the Seven Eleven in a tourist area. When I arrived in this place I sent my location and my cell phone died. I was very lucky! Some hours later my friends arrived there and they said I was in the other side of the city. How that was possible? So, this confusion occured because the taxi driver didn't read the whole address, there was a last word that he didn't read and because of this he dropped me in the wrong place.

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Day 7: The day I visited Malaysia

In 2014, I was supposed to travel to Malaysia with my friends, but I couldn't go with them. I met them 4 days later in Kuala Lumpur, but it was not very simple. I had never traveled to another country by myself before, that's why I was a little worried.

In At the airport I asked for a taxi. I gave my the (See Note below) address to the taxi driver and I thought I was fine. But I wasn't. The taxi driver couldn't find the place I was going to, but he said I was in on the right street, so I got off out (of the taxi) and I looked for the number. I asked for help because I couldn't find the place. A guy who was in a hurry answered me, but I almost didn't understand him. He said I was in the wrong place. My battery was running out and I had to send my location to my friends. Before I met this guy, I asked other people for information, but we couldn't understand each other. That's why, when I found this one, I couldn't leave him before I get got the information I needed. As the guy was in a hurry, I had to follow him. I was paying attention in to the area while I was following him to understand where I was, because I wanted to guarantee my safety. I asked him for directions to get to a Seven Eleven store, so I could charge my cell phone. Thank God, I got the information and I could was able to find the Seven Eleven in a tourist area. When I arrived in this place I sent my location and my cell phone died. I was very lucky! Some hours later my friends arrived there and they said I was in on the other side of the city. How was that possible? So, this confusion occurred because the taxi driver didn't read the whole address, there was a last word that he didn't read and because of this he dropped me in the wrong place.

Good job with your text Mayara! In the places where the words are highlighted in blue I did not change or add any words, I just changed the order of the words and now it seems much more natural to me.
I changed a lot of prepositions based on the way that we use these in the USA. I know that in some cases the British use different prepositions than we do.
Note: In this sentence I would understand "my" address to mean your home address (where you live) and "the" address to be the address where you wanted the taxi to take you.

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