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Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan Podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan,

but how actually being in Japan, I'm your host Chris Broder, but join us always by England's top Japan

enthusiast, Mr Pete Donaldson himself, Pete, how the devil you're doing?

I've been better, I have to say Chris.

Uh oh, did somebody get COVID?

I got COVID, not only that last Thursday I passed my driving test and instantly

instantly got COVID, which is just like I mean they sort of say you know,

once you pass your driving test there's a whole lot of freedom, you know you look

look at the world in a different way, you can go anywhere, you can go left you can go all right,

you can go forward you can go backwards, but not in my case, I've been stuck at me out for the last

week, so uh went down with, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,

so human, I was one of those um breakthrough cases where I've had two gaps, two two AstraZeneca's

and uh yeah they uh I just instantly uh instantly got COVID, human, human I am, human,

well at least you have actually had it would have been a lot worse as you not have seen there.

Was not having a nice time last uh sort of Friday Saturday and I'm so glad that uh I was able to

uh yeah I was so glad that I was I was vexed because I would have been in all kinds of trouble,

I felt bloody dreadful, really out of breath, really, really,

I didn't realize my symptoms started early then I sort of realized because I um I had a

cold, I had a cold basically and I was like that's a big way, so I was latched off long

it because I was like look I don't think this is a COVID symptom, but uh and I was blowing

negatives and then suddenly sort of Thursday night Friday morning I uh I got a PCR test

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