Hello everyone, it's Andrew here and I'm by myself today. This is going to be a solo episode today.

We're going to try something new here at Kuleps and that's short weekly episodes that I'm planning to do just by myself.

So of course we'll still be releasing longer, deeper, more detailed English lessons with my other co-hosts every week, but in addition

to that, I'll be making these short episodes too.

You know, just a bit of bonus English learning content for you to study with.

We'll also make the transcript available for these shorter episodes free for everyone to learn with so make sure to visit our website

QLips.com and get the free transcript for this episode.

If this is your first time listening to Kuleps, well welcome to the

podcast. We're glad to have you here. At Kuleps we make conversation-based English lessons that are designed to help you increase your speaking and listening

fluency, to learn natural English expressions, and of course to understand the culture of English speaking people as well.

So guys I hope you had an awesome weekend. Me well I had a whirlwind weekend.

It was really wild and pretty tiring to be honest.

Thursday was my birthday and I turned 38 years old. Can you believe it? I can't. 38. Wow. It's a bit

scary just saying it. I think I'm really starting to get up there now and this was the first birthday that I've celebrated with my wife since we got married.

So she really

pulled out all of the stops.

To pull out all of the stops means to put a lot of effort into something.

So she really pulled out all of the stops

and made my birthday really special.

She decorated our house and made a bunch of delicious food,

a kind of East meets West concept,

there was some Korean food and there was some Western food and

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