It's great to be here with you for another English lesson. I'm Andrew. I'm your host and your study buddy and this is Bonus episode number 71 of the Kulips English podcast.

In our Bonus episode series, I just tell you some stories about what's going on in my life

as a Canadian living abroad in South Korea.

And I hope that by listening to these stories you'll be able to

improve your English fluency, grow your English vocabulary, and build your knowledge

of the culture of English-speaking people.

So if your goal is to do one of those things, then you've come to the right place.

So I'm going to keep this episode short, everyone, and I know that I say that often but I really mean

it this week. I'm going to try and keep things short and that is for two reasons. The first reason

is my throat's a little bit tendy right now. It's a little bit tender and I

don't want to have a full-blown sore throat tomorrow by talking too much today.

So I'm going to try and keep things short and sweet

because my voice is actually very important to me.

I realized this recently that if I lose my voice, I'm in trouble. I need my voice obviously for teaching in the

classroom and I need my voice for the podcast. So being a podcaster without a voice or being a teacher without a voice is not a very good thing.

So the health of my voice is very important to me.

I think maybe I caught a bug that's going around. It seems like these days here in Seoul, there are a lot of people coughing and hacking away and I'm sure there are lots of germs flying around. It's the time of the year when the seasons are changing and actually just

last week it was really quite warm and I was still walking around in shorts and a t-shirt and it felt like summer weather. But now, within the span of only a week, it's cooled down dramatically and I was outside today for a walk and it felt pretty chilly and I was even wearing a hoodie.

So yeah, when the seasons change people tend to get the sniffles, they tend to catch colds and there seems to be a bug going around these days as well

So I'm gonna try and save my voice here by not talking too much and the second reason I said there were two reasons the second reason is that I'm on

dinner duty tonight so it's my job to prepare dinner for my wife and for me and I'll be

cooking up a storm here pretty soon.

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