Hello, how is it going everyone? I hope you are doing okay. My name is Andrew and I'm going to be your host and your English study buddy for this episode which is Bonus episode numberION. Can you believe it? We're already at episode number 61 of this series

and just to explain what the bonus series is here,

it's where I hang out with you for around 20 to 30 minutes

and I share some stories with you about what I have been up to over the last week here as a Canadian person living abroad in South Korea

I share about some of the interesting or funny or maybe sad parts of my week.

I guess it depends each week is a little bit different.

And lately on the bonus series,

I have been sharing some kind of stressful stories from my life but don't worry this week I have good

news only good news and I'm going to share about some happy things and some

positive things that have been happening in my life recently and in fact, in fact I have two stories to share with you today. So we'll get to those stories in just a moment, but before I do, I want to let you know that there is a free transcript that

accompanies this episode you can download it as a PDF file if you would like to

save it to your computer and print it out so you can have the physical paper version of the

transcript, but it also comes in an interactive version which I recommend if you're

studying with your phone or your computer or your tablet some kind of digital device

then the interactive transcript is really best because you can click on any word in the

transcript and hear the audio from that point.

So it's a fantastic way to listen to certain parts of the episode again and again and again. You could be listening along to the episode and everything is fine and

dandy and easy to understand and then suddenly there's like one word or one expression or one part that you didn't quite get.

Well then this is the perfect situation for using the interactive transcript

because you can just click on that sentence again or that word again and hear it a few more times.

And of course you guys know this, I don't need to remind you, but repetition is so key in learning

English and to be able to hear something again and again and

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