This is an All-Eirs-English podcast episode 919, the key moment in surfing that it's just like speaking English.

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Today we hear Lindsay's story about learning how to surf in Nicaragua. Find out how the moment when you stand up on a surf board is just like the moment when you decide to jump into an English conversation. Hey Michelle, how you doing today?

Hey Lindsay, I'm good, how are you? I'm so excited to hear about your trip.

I know I'm back from Nicaragua and it was awesome it was awesome and I'm

going to share some insights that I had on the trip with our listeners today we're

going to talk about it. It's going to be cool. Okay awesome that's exciting I can't wait. Yeah, yeah, super, super exciting, but first I want to remind our listeners real quick guys, today we're going to use some new vocabulary that you might not know in English. So we're talking about surfing today actually.

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Nice there you go exciting.

Yeah and we have lots of cool stuff going on. Nice. in April. So guys if you if you're in Japan and you have not signed up yet you want to go

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want to grab the Kizuna level if you can. Okay, very cool. Very cool. Cool.

So, Michelle, yes, I'm back from Nicaragua and you came back from Italy a little while I like it I feel like

this season we're talking about our trips and our traveling a lot.

Well that's the best thing ever so my favorite thing to do is travel so and I know I'm guessing it is pretty much for you too

Totally I love I realized something about myself when I was traveling I love ambiguity I love ambiguity and I love the ambiguity that happens when you're traveling because you don't know what's going to, you never quite know exactly what's going on.

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