Have you ever gone on a trip at the drop of a hat suddenly and with no real planning or prep?

Well, just last week one of my closest and oldest friends hit me up, sent me a message and said, hey I've got the week off and

I'm thinking of going to Jeju Island.

Want to meet up for the weekend?

My buddy's from Canada and we first met in elementary school over 30 years ago, believe it or not.

He's one of my oldest and best friends and right now he's living in Shanghai and he had some time off work and he decided to

spend it on Jeju Island. For listeners who don't know, Jeju Island is a volcanic island off the southern coast of

South Korea and if you're a regular Q-Lips listener then you'll probably remember

Cassie and me chatting about our trips to the island we've both been there several times.

It's an amazing place I love hanging out on Jeju and the best part is that it's only an hour's flight away from Seoul. So when I found out my friend would

be chilling in Jeu, I really wanted to go and hang out with him.

Before the pandemic, we used to meet up pretty much every year,

traveling to different places in Asia together. Our last trip was to Japan, but that was way back in

2018 and then of course the pandemic happened and with all the

restrictions in place that made it very, very hard to travel we haven't seen each other in person since then. So I checked my

schedule, I talked it over with my wife, and I made a last minute decision to grab a

flight to Jeju to catch up with my friend over the weekend.

You're listening to Bonus episode number 48 of the Kuleps English podcast.

I'm your host and your English study buddy Andrew and in this episode I'm going to share

the story of my short but sweet Jeju Island adventure that happened over the weekend. And then towards the end of the

episode I'm going to teach you about a useful English expression that you'll hear

me use while I'm telling the story. Now, we've made a transcript for this episode

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