Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello and welcome to bonus episode number 166 of the Q-Lips English podcast.
How's it going? I hope you're doing okay. Thank you for clicking play and joining me for this English study session today. My name's Andrew and in our bonus episode series here, what I do is I just tell you some stories from my everyday life and I hope by listening to these stories, you'll be able to build your English fluency. It's
kind of like we're just hanging out, having a conversation, like you're catching up with an old friend. To accompany this episode, there are some free study tools available for everyone. There is an interactive transcript and a vocabulary glossary. You can Get them just by clicking the link in the description. They're awesome study tools that I think you will find very helpful.
Plus, if you're a Q-Lips member, then you'll also get a comprehension quiz and a huge shout out to all of our Q-Lips members out there. You guys are awesome. We couldn't do Q-Lips without you. So thank you so much for your support. And if you would like to join Q-Lips and become a member yourself, then just visit our website, Q-Lips.com, and you can sign up.
There are too many benefits and bonuses that you get that I can't describe them all here, but just check out the website. You can see the details and you can sign up and become a Q-Lips member today. Okay, so in this week's episode, I'm going to tell you about my upcoming trip to Canada.
To be honest, probably by the time you're checking this episode out, I will be in Canada or I will have already returned from Canada. But at the time of recording, I haven't left for my trip yet. So I'm still excited for the trip. It hasn't started yet. And I'm going to tell you about the things that I'm looking forward to. So without any further ado, let's just jump right in and get started.
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Chapter 2: What are Andrew's travel plans for his trip to Canada?
And I got this little blurb from their website. It says, The Bookshop is one of Canada's largest used bookstores. Over 5,000 square feet of floor space provides for the display of thousands of new, used, and out-of-print books covering almost every subject imaginable. So yeah, this is a real gem of a used bookstore. I haven't been there for several years, but I always really enjoy visiting there.
And it's nice. You know, I live in a non-English speaking country and I got to give credit where credit is due. At a lot of the major bookstores here in Seoul, they do have a fairly decent English language book section. It's definitely possible to buy English language books in Seoul. No problem. And of course, you can buy any brand new book off the internet, no problem at all.
So I don't really ever have an issue buying new books in Korea. However, this kind of used bookstore is just a totally different ballgame. It's totally different. You have like vintage books, old books about...
all kinds of topics like ranging from gardening to cooking to automotive repair to military history to fiction to non-fiction and everything in between and yeah a lot of really cool old vintage books so i'm gonna see if i can convince somebody to drive me down to penticton it's about An hour drive from Kelowna to Penticton, but I think it's worth the drive to go to this bookstore.
And if you're ever in the area, I definitely recommend checking it out. It's just, yeah, this really magical space. It's jam-packed with books from floor to ceiling. And yeah, if I do go, I'll make sure to take some pictures so I can share them with you because it's a really special, cool kind of bookstore. So I want to go there. Looking forward to that.
And what else did I write down on my notes? I wrote foods. Yeah, food that I can't eat in Korea. So foods like poutine. Poutine is a Canadian fast food dish that comes from Quebec and Canada. It's just very simple. It's just French fries with a gravy on top and then cheese on top of that. Not very healthy, but very delicious. Looking forward to eating some poutine. Pierogies.
Pierogies are like this dumpling that comes from Eastern Europe. Not sure which country claims them as their own, but I think they're eaten maybe in Poland and Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe.
europe as well and there are some really really good pierogi restaurants in my hometown because there are a lot of immigrants that come from that eastern european area so i love them it's like a dumpling made out of flour and inside is potato and then sometimes some cheese or onion or different things on the inside Delish. I'm looking forward to eating pierogies.
It's already making my stomach rumble just thinking about them. Ah, and also there is this greasy spoon diner called the Pepper Pot Grill, which is actually very, very closely located to where I went to high school. It's just across the road from my high school.
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Chapter 3: How does Andrew feel about his hometown friendships?
I almost never, ever see them. Occasionally, I will find them. And whenever I do see one, then I always buy it because I love them. I haven't really found a good one yet. If you're a listener in Korea and you know of a delicious cinnamon roll, then let me know because I'm always on the lookout for them. But I do think I'll be able to find a delicious one in Kelowna.
So I'm looking forward to that. And yeah, I guess those are my main things. Usually I would talk about ice hockey. Usually at this time of the year, I would be in full ice hockey mode and I'd be just super stoked to go back to Canada and watch ice hockey, maybe in a pub, maybe with my friends or with my brother or my parents. And probably I'd even try and go and see a live hockey game as well.
But not this year because my favorite team, the Vancouver Canucks, this year, they are terrible. They are dead last in the National Hockey League. There are 32 teams in the National Hockey League, the NHL. And out of the 32 teams, the Vancouver Canucks are number 32. They're 32 out of 32. In English, we say that is dead last. When you're in the very final position, you are dead last.
So terrible, terrible. They're on a nine-game losing streak as I record this right now, which means they've lost nine games consecutively in a row, and they're also on pace for the worst season in 27 years. So, yeah, just terrible. So I got to say my passion for ice hockey is not very strong right now. I'm not really feeling it, and...
Yeah, I'll probably turn the games on, but I'm not going to be sitting there cheering for a team that's not doing very well. I'm kind of a fair weather fan in that regard. Fair weather fan is someone who is really passionate when the team is doing well and doesn't really care too much when the team is not doing well. Unfortunately, I'm kind of a fair weather fan these days.
However, I am looking forward to the Olympic hockey. This is the one hope that I have for hockey this year because my Vancouver Canucks are terrible, but I'm hoping, praying that we get some awesome hockey at the Olympics. And yeah, if Canada can win the Olympic gold medal, then that will redeem the terrible Vancouver Canucks.
season this year so that is my one hope for ice hockey yeah but yeah I'm not really looking forward to like going to a game or anything like that this year just because of how terrible the team is doing all right so that brings me to the end of my story and the end of this episode thank you for listening all the way to the end pat yourself on the back You did a great job.
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