771. Sick In Japan (Recorded Live at the BC)
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Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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771. Sick In Japan (Recorded Live at the BC)
My story about how I ended up in a Japanese hospital bed, scared out of my brain. Recorded live in front of an audience at the British Council in Paris.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, |
| 0:07.2 | visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk. UK. Okay. podcast land today. How is how's Leppland at the moment? I hope it's comfortable. |
| 0:25.0 | Here it is humid. The weather is humid. |
| 0:30.0 | It's sort of overcast and hot and sweaty and there's electricity in the air |
| 0:36.2 | Thunderstorms lightning crash bang wallet flash thunder and, which I always find amazing. I mean the other night there was a |
| 0:46.9 | thunderstorm in the middle of the night and I could see the flashes even with my eyes closed and I didn't, I wasn't having a very good night anyway because it was very hot and you know me I don't like it when it's too hot because it's just unbearable for me so I wasn't really sleeping and I could sort of see these flashes and I had to get up and |
| 1:05.5 | look out of the window and I stared out at the window and there way up high in the sky. |
| 1:10.9 | It must have been quite far away as well, was this huge dark cloud and within |
| 1:16.6 | it were these incredible bits of fork lightning spreading across the whole cloud. |
| 1:24.7 | I mean it must have been shooting across the inside of this cloud. |
| 1:28.3 | It must have been miles and miles of distance being covered |
| 1:32.2 | by the lightning in just a split second. |
| 1:35.6 | And I remember when I lived in London, my flat in London had a view, quite a big view I could |
| 1:40.2 | see quite a lot of the London skyline and I remember watching lightning streaking across |
| 1:47.1 | basically the entire city the entire width or length of the city in a split second. It is fascinating. I find lightning, not only entertaining, but mysterious and incredible. I mean, I, you know, I kind of understand it that you get something like positive and |
| 2:05.5 | negative charges in the air and the cloud acts as an insulation between them but then |
| 2:11.3 | sometimes it doesn't, and that's when lightning happens. |
| 2:16.0 | Fantastic, so it's very atmospheric and stormy here at the moment, warm weather and stormy weather. But anyway, that's not what I am here to talk to you about. |
| 2:25.0 | In this episode, I'm going to let you listen to |
| 2:28.0 | the recording of my storytelling event |
| 2:30.0 | which happened last week at the British Council in Paris. I've been |
| 2:33.8 | talking about it on the podcast promoting it, right? Saying to Parisian Leptas |
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