Hello and I'll be your host and your study buddy for this English podcast.

My name's Andrew and I'll be your host and your study buddy for this English lesson.

So the plan for today is that I'm going to tell you a couple of

stories from my life about what I got up to over the last week and I'm going to

also share some updates about what's new with us here at Culeps, and then towards the end

I'll teach you about an interesting and useful idiomatic expression.

Does that sound okay with you? I hope so. There's a 100% free

transcript that we've made to accompany this episode and I recommend following

along with it as you listen and study with me.

You can download it as a PDF and print it off or you can use the interactive version,

which is best if you're using your computer or phone

to listen and study with me now. To get the transcript just follow the link in

the description or visit our website qlips.com. So happy Monday everyone

welcome to the start of another new week. I hope you're doing well.

Last week was a little bit rough for me, to be honest. I spent the first few days of last week getting over my case of jet lag.

Do you know what jet lag is?

It's the tired feeling that you get when you travel from one time zone to another time zone. I actually think

jet lag hits me the hardest when I travel between similar time zones. For example

in Canada we have many time zones and when I lived in Montreal

which is in the eastern time zone I always had a difficult time when I travel back to visit my hometown, Colonna, British Columbia, which is in the Pacific time zone.

Even though there's only a three hour time difference between those two places it would always throw my

sleep schedule out of whack for a few days. Like for example I'd be really tired

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