Hello and welcome to bonus 168. How's it going? Thank you for clicking play and joining me for this

episode. I hope you're doing okay. My name is Andrew. I'll be your humble host and study buddy

for today. And what I do here in our bonus series is I tell you some stories from my everyday life.

I'm a Canadian who lives abroad in Seoul, South Korea,

and I hope that by listening to my stories,

you will be able to build your fluency, increase your confidence,

grow your vocabulary, and to become a better and clearer communicator.

So if those are some of your goals, then you're in the right place.

And I have to start off this story with an apology because last week, I promised that I was going to tell you about my

recent trip to Canada. But actually, I got super sick and I lost my voice completely. I couldn't

even talk. And so recording a story and uploading it was just out of the question.

It was impossible.

So maybe you can still hear in my voice a little bit.

I'm not quite over my sickness yet.

But yeah, my voice has returned.

Thank God because, you know, as a podcaster and a teacher my voice is my moneymaker so

i really need my voice and yeah it's it's back so i'm happy about that and what i'm going to do

instead of telling you some stories about my recent trip to canada is actually tell you about

getting sick because it's in my mind, it dominated my life

over the last week. And so, guys, I'll save the Canada stories for the next week. And here I'm

just going to tell you a quick, shorter version of kind of getting sick and recovering, because

it is a little bit of an interesting story. And like I said, it's been

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