Bonus episode #168 – Sick as a dog

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

from 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 pod caster and a teacher, my voice is my money maker. 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 dominating my life over the last week. And just before I get to the story, don't forget to grab the interactive transcript, and

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observer and is completely free to join. Every other day you'll get a small task and once you complete all the tasks, you'll get a completion certificate. I hope to see you all there. Bye for now. So with that being said let me jump into my story for this week and if you're a regular listener

of Q-lips you'll probably know what's been going on in my life a little bit but I'll just catch you up quickly. So I spent a week in Canada that was about three weeks ago now and then I came back from Canada and I came back here to Seoul where I live in South Korea and I spent a week in Seoul. And then after spending a week in Seoul, then my wife and I went to Japan. We went to

Fukuoka, Japan, and we spent four days in Fukuoka. And then after that my wife went home first back to Korea, whereas I continued on traveling in Japan. I flew to Tokyo. And then I spent two days in Tokyo. One day I watched a concert. One of my favorite bands of all time is called My Bloody Valentine this shoe gaze band from Ireland who really really don't release albums very often or play

concerts very often and they're getting up there in age so I thought I really need to take advantage of this opportunity that they're playing kind of close to me I mean I guess Tokyo is kind of closer than Ireland from just travel to from Seoul right so they're kind of in Asia in the of vicinity. So I wanted to take advantage of that opportunity. Go to Tokyo, see the concerts.

And then the next night after the concert, I had a meetup with Q-Lips listeners, which was also amazing. A huge thank you to all of the Q-Lips listeners in Tokyo that came out to the meetup. It was awesome. We had a great turnout and it was just so, so cool to get to meet everyone. And I'll talk more about the meetup, maybe in a little bit, but I want to focus on being sick

and recovering here. Okay, so that gets us up to date. All right, I was in Canada, back to Korea, and then in Japan for for those six days. So the time in Fukuoka with my wife was really awesome. We did lots of things, and I'll talk about that in more detail, maybe in the future as well, but I felt really great that whole time we were in Fukuoka, and then my wife went back

to Korea, I went on to Tokyo and I arrived in Tokyo, no problem took the airport train to my hotel, checked into my hotel, kind of got settled and then I had to pretty much immediately go to the concerts. The concert was absolutely incredible, I really enjoyed it and actually a few funny things happened at the concert as well. So I have more stories to tell you about this. Just wait for upcoming episodes.

We'll get into all the details but just to keep things on the short side for now. I enjoyed the concert and then I went back to my hotel after the concert was finished. Maybe 10, 10, 30 at night by the time I arrived. And when I arrived I felt suddenly really quite tired, really quite tired and just almost

exhausted, which was weird because I didn't really do too much that day. Of course, you know, travel days are always a little bit exhausting. the flight from Fukuoka to Tokyo is pretty short and there's not too much transportation between airports as well and it wasn't an international flight

it was just a domestic flight with Injapan so I didn't have to go through