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Ah yes, did you know that we are about four weeks away from one year. Isn't that amazing? Thank you so much,

everybody, for listening to this podcast. And before the year is up, I'm going to introduce the people who left messages and ratings and comments on the Apple store,

what do you call it, iTunes, and also on the Google App Store. I just want to thank you guys

for inviting me into your education world, for listening to me. It's very personal. I feel like a personal coach to you and I just

want to say thank you very much. Now, today's expression is a fun one. It's one word. It is

yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes. Y-I-K-E-S. That's it. Yikes. Now, when do we use this word? Well, we can use it when we're

scared. So, for example, a couple months ago, I had the chance to visit the Grand Canyon in America,

in the state of Arizona. It was amazing. But as I was walking along a trail, I looked down into the

canyon, and it's right there. There's no fence. There's no protection. It's just

down, down, down. I'm not joking. Thousands of feet, hundreds of meters. It's like so scary.

And when I looked, I said,

yikes.

Oh, yikes.

It was so scary.

When I was in high school, I lived in the north.

And in the wintertime, we always have snow and ice on the roads.

Well, one day I was driving and as I was turning left, suddenly my car started to spin on the ice.

I thought, oh my God, I'm going to hit a tree and I'm going to die.

So I said, yikes.

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