Chapter 1: What announcement does Andrew have for listeners in Tokyo?
A quick announcement before we get started with this episode, and this one is a special announcement for our Japanese listeners, in particular, the Tokyoites out there. Is that a word? Tokyoites? I'm not sure. But if you live in Tokyo, this is an announcement for you because we are going to have a Q-Lips meetup in Tokyo on Tuesday, February the 10th. Tuesday, February the 10th.
And I would love to meet up with any Q-Lips listeners. It doesn't matter if you are just a casual listener or if you are a hardcore Q-Lips fanatic and are a Q-Lips member. It's open to everybody. And guys, the link for the details is going to be in the description for this episode. And to be honest, I haven't decided on a venue yet.
If you are a listener in Tokyo and think you could help me out planning a little bit and finding a good venue to host maybe 10 to 15 people, then that would be awesome. And yeah, we'll have a nice casual and fun meetup with some Q-Lips listeners in Tokyo on February the 10th. So check out the link in the description and yeah, let's do it. See you in Tokyo.
Hello and welcome to bonus episode number 165 of the Q-Lips English podcast. How is it going? I hope you're doing well. My name's Andrew. I'll be your host and your study buddy today for this English language lesson. What we do here in the bonus episode series at Q-Lips is I just talk to you and I hang out with you and I tell you some stories from my everyday life.
I'm a Canadian, but I live abroad in Seoul, South Korea, and I hope by listening to my stories, you will be able to build your English fluency and grow your vocabulary and become a clearer and more confident communicator. To accompany this episode, there is an absolutely free interactive transcript and vocabulary glossary.
They're awesome study resources and you can get them by following the link in the description. Plus, if you're a Q-Lips member, then you can also get a comprehension quiz. Yeah, so Q-Lips members, make sure to check out that comprehension quiz. And I got to say a big welcome and hello to all of the new members who have joined us recently.
We had just a ton of brand new members sign up at the start of the year. So guys, thank you so much for trusting Q-Lips with your English language education. And we're going to make a lot of progress this year. So it's great to have you aboard. Thank you to all the new members out there. Okay, so let's get started with this episode, guys.
And in today's story, I'm going to tell you about my upcoming trip to Canada.
I'm going back to Canada. And you may be wondering, Andrew, why in the world would you go back to Canada in January of all times of the year, in January? For the same amount of money, essentially, you could travel to beautiful places around the world. I could go to Spain. I could go to Australia. I could go to Bali in Indonesia. I could go to Mexico.
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Chapter 2: Why is Andrew traveling back to Canada in January?
Okay. And that used to be what you would see when booking a ticket through their website. However, now they've introduced a lot of complexity and Now, in the economy, they have all of these different options. I believe they had three options just for economy, and the options are priced differently depending on if you're going to check a bag or not check a bag.
Check a bag means to store a suitcase or to store luggage in the storage compartment of the plane underneath, right? You can have a carry-on bag, which is like your little bag that you take with you on the airplane or a checked bag that goes in the airplane's storage compartment. So that pricing is different.
There's different pricing options depending on if you want to be able to cancel your ticket or not cancel your ticket or change the details of your ticket. Select your seats.
If you want some more leg room or less leg room, like there are all these different options and yeah, it's a little bit frustrating because when you search for your plane ticket, the first price I saw was a very affordable price. And I was like, oh, this is great. However, when I went to actually get to the stage where I have to book the ticket, then that price goes up quite a bit.
Once they add in the extras and the tax and everything. And yeah, I reckoned, I thought that I probably wouldn't be canceling my ticket. So I just went with the no cancellation option, which was just a terrible mistake. I don't know why I did that. So I booked my ticket, kind of the cheapest option available. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on this just one hour flight.
I thought, okay, I'm done. All of my plane tickets booked. However, then I called my parents to tell them about my travel plans and, you know, when I was expecting to come in. And my dad asked me why I was flying on WestJet. He's like, why are you flying WestJet? You usually fly at Northern Air. Why aren't you flying Northern Air?
And in that moment, I was like, oh my gosh, I totally forgot about Northern Air. There's this other airline that's a real regional carrier. It really only operates in the Western part of Canada and they service the North. That's their specialty, Northern Canada. So it's kind of like the Northwest part of the country. However, they do fly between Vancouver and Kelowna.
And I've flown with them a lot in the past, but for whatever reason, I just totally blanked and it didn't cross my mind when I was booking my airline ticket and I forgot about Northern Air. So then after I finished talking with my parents, I went to the Northern Air website. I'm like, oh, how much, how much was it? Like, did I really miss out on a good deal or something?
And I checked and yeah, I really did miss out on a good deal. It was like a much more affordable price and it included two checked bags with WestJet. I had to add a checked bag to my ticket and it was really expensive just to check a suitcase, like one suitcase. And it's not like I'm carrying a ton of stuff. I'm only going to Canada for a week.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Andrew face when booking his plane ticket?
And really, I'm the one to blame, right? I was the one who totally forgot about Northern Air in the first place. I'm glad my dad reminded me about them because without that, I wouldn't have been able to use their service. But yeah, that's on me. And that was a little bit of frustration I had booking the ticket going back to Canada. However, it's all finished. It's all in the past.
The tickets are booked. Everything's good to go. And hopefully that was the only little bit of a travel headache that I'll have for this trip. Hopefully the rest of it will be smooth sailing. In the next bonus episode, I'm actually going to tell you about what I'm looking forward to doing in Canada. I've got... not a lot of things planned.
Like most of the time when I go back, I just want to hang out with people. I want to see my family. I want to see my friends. But there are a few things and activities that I want to do as well. And that's going to be the topic of our next bonus episode. So we You'll have to wait until next week to hear that one. But for now, everyone, I just want to say thank you for listening.
Don't forget to check out the study tools, the transcript, the vocabulary glossary, and the quiz that are available for this episode. And also come on over to our Discord to hang out and to chat about what you heard today in this episode. If you have any questions or comments, I'd love to hear from you.
Plus, there are tons of other different topics that you can talk about on Discord with our awesome community. And it's a great way to be active with your English and to practice your English output as well as your input that you get from listening to the podcast. So guys, we'll see you over on the Discord. Please take care and I'll catch you in the next episode. Until then, bye-bye.
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