Hello and welcome to bonus episode number 63 of the Q-Lops English podcast

How is it going? I hope you're doing great. Thank you for clicking play and joining me today for this English study session.

So for those of you who don't know me, my name's Andrew, I'm a Canadian and I currently live

in Seoul, South Korea and in the Bonus episode series I share some stories with you from my life.

And I hope that by listening to these stories, you'll be able to improve your English fluency

and grow your English vocabulary and your knowledge of the culture of English-speaking people as well.

To start this episode I wanted to give a shout out to my folks, to my parents because they had an important milestone in their lives

over the past weekend. On Saturday, my parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.

40 years.

So that's a pretty incredible achievement.

So I wanted to give a big congratulations

to my parents right here at the start of the episode and also on

Sunday it was my mother's birthday. So a very big important weekend for my

parents and one thing that is unfortunate about living abroad is that you often have to miss

these kinds of important family events. It would have been great if I could have joined

my parents and my brother and sister to have a

celebration for my parents anniversary and my mom's birthday, but it's just a little bit too far to fly from Seoul to Canada for a weekend trip.

So unfortunately I wasn't able to go back and hang out with them for these two celebrations.

And to an extent, I feel a little bit guilty

about missing out on some of these important family

celebrations, but I was able to phone my parents and my wife and I we talked for a long time with my folks on

Face time so that was nice but it does feel a little bit sad to have to miss out on these kinds of family events, but I'm hoping

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