Hello and welcome to Bonus episode number 72 of the Qulips English podcast. My name is Andrew.

I will be your host and your English study buddy for today. How is it going with you? I hope you're doing well and if you were to ask me how I'm doing right now in response I would say I'm doing pretty well but not perfect.

In last week's bonus episode I told you that my throat was a little tender and a little bit sore

and that I didn't want to keep the episode going for too long last week

because I was worried about my sore throat turning into a full-blown cold.

And well... a full-blown cold and well can you guess what happened? Yes it did indeed turn into a

full-blown cold so the time in between now and since I last talked to you has been

filled with a lot of coughing and sniffling and blowing my nose and all of those

disgusting and nasty things that come along with a cold,

but I feel like I'm almost back to my old self

and of course I'm happy to be here to spend some time studying English with you today.

And what we do here in the Bonus Episode Series

is I just tell you some stories from my everyday life

as a Canadian living abroad in South Korea.

And I've got a couple of stories to share with you this week

that I hope you'll find interesting and funny.

And of course, the real reason that you're here

is to improve your English, so I hope they'll also be

helpful in achieving that goal.

And to help you with that goal we have a free transcript for this episode. It comes in an interactive version or a

PDF version and you can download it and follow along with the episode or check

your comprehension after listening to the episode just by following the link that's in the

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