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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everybody, and welcome to bonus episode number 171 of the Q-Lips English podcast. How is it going? My name is Andrew. It's so great to be back here with you for another English study session. If you're new to our bonus episode series and you don't know what it's all about, let me quickly explain. What I do here is I just hang out with you and I tell you some stories from my everyday life.
I'm a And I hope that by listening to these stories, you will be able to improve your English fluency. We know that when you're learning English, you need to spend a lot of time with the language. You need to get it into your brain. And that's what I'm here to help you with, hopefully in a fun and entertaining way.
And to accompany every bonus episode, there's a 100% free interactive transcript and vocabulary glossary that you can get just by following the link in the description for this episode. Plus, if you're a Q-Lips member, then you'll also get a comprehension quiz so you can check and see how much you are able to understand after you listen to my stories.
to sign up and become a Q-Lips member and to get the quiz, plus tons of other benefits and bonuses like our weekly speaking classes, like our full helpful study guides for each and every regular episode that we make, like our Fluency Files series, which is for members only, like ad-free audio and more.
Just visit our website, Q-Lips.com, and you can sign up and become a member today for an affordable price. And of course, a huge thank you to all of our members out there couldn't do Qloops without you. So thank you so, so much. Let's get started with the stories for this week. And I just wanted to start by putting a bow on talking about my time that I spent in Japan in February.
In the last bonus episode, I told you about going to Fukuoka. And after visiting Fukuoka, I traveled to Tokyo, where I saw a My Bloody Valentine concert, which was incredible. I met up with a bunch of awesome Q-Lips listeners as well. And then I got super sick. And I also talked about getting super sick in a recent bonus episode.
If you haven't heard that story, I'll put the link to it in the description for this one so you can check out that story. The concert was mind-blowing. It was incredible. And something very interesting happened during the concert. And I'm actually going to tell that story in the next Fluency Files episode, our member-only series. So Q-Lips members, look forward to that one.
I'm going to record it soon and it should be out shortly. And I also briefly wanted to mention the QLips meetup that we had in Tokyo. It was amazing. I want to say a sincere thank you to everyone who came out and joined me there. It was so nice to meet all of you and to get to chat a little bit with you all.
My only regret for the meetup was that the time was too short and I didn't get to talk with everyone for as long as I would have liked. So I really apologize if you came to the meetup and then you were only able to talk with me for a few moments. I guess I'll just have to come back again one day soon and we'll do it again. We'll do another meetup. But yeah, it was amazing.
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Chapter 2: What insights does Andrew share about his experience running the Seoul Marathon?
Our biggest trees won't fit on the platform. So we were like, oh, great. Now what? So we decided that we're just going to have to expand it and make it bigger. So that was last weekend. And we decided, okay, we need to buy more tiles. We need to buy more cement. And we just need to make this platform bigger. bigger. And so that's what we spent all day working on yesterday.
Again, I had to go to the hardware store and pick up yesterday. It was a 40 kilogram bag of cement and carry that back home in my cart, then do all the cement mixing. And we extended the platform and put the tiles in and did the grouting. And right now it's drying. Thankfully, it's finally the correct size. So we shouldn't have to expand it anymore, but it was a lot of work.
I have a huge respect. I've always had a huge respect for people who work in construction and who work outside and who do these kinds of difficult jobs for a living. I've always had a respect for these people, but it just underscored how difficult this kind of work is. So if you out there, if you are a construction worker or you do this kind of labor, hats off to you.
I really respect you because it's not so easy. And the final result, I'll put a picture on our socials, on our discord and our Instagram. You guys can tell me, I think, you know, my wife and I were joking around, like we've never done this kind of work before. We don't really know what we're doing. We're probably making tons and tons and tons of errors. And yeah, the final result. It looks cute.
It's like indie construction, not professional construction. I think it's going to add some charm to our yard. It's going to make it look better for sure. It's nice that we won't have to deal with those slanted flower pots or like all the rocks. propping up the flower pots to be level. However, it's not completely level. I can't say that we completely fixed the problem.
So maybe we'll still need to have a couple little stones under there. But yeah, nice to get that job done with. It took up two weekends of March. So yeah, this weekend and last weekend were really centered around this construction project. But now it's all done. We just have to wait. We're going to wait around a week for all of the cement to dry.
And then we'll move our trees and our plants, everything on there. And yeah, I can't wait to see exactly what it will look like. All of our trees this week in the week between construction last week and this week, all of the blooms and the buds have started to come out. And so, yeah, spring is in the air here in our yard and can't wait to see everything in full bloom here in the next few weeks.
But guys, that's essentially what I got up to in March was running and constructing and building and breaking my back with this hard work. But I'm curious about you. How did your March go? Why don't you join us on our Discord community?
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Chapter 3: How did Andrew overcome his winter running injuries before the marathon?
You can leave a comment for me. and for our entire Q-Lips listening community as well. And it would be great to hear what you have to say about your march, what you got up to, some of the highlights, maybe even some of the lowlights. I'd love to hear what's going on in your life. So be active with your English. Come and join us. on our Discord.
The link to do so for free is in the description for this episode. And also, I want to let you know that we have speaking classes each and every week for Q-Lips members. We have three classes. You're allowed to join as many of them as you would like. And each and every week, we're having really fun classes. I host a class every Tuesday. And yeah, it's great.
We have some awesome Q-Lips members who join us and we practice our English and It's just one of the highlights of my week, so if you would like to hang out in a really fun environment, very low pressure, with some great people to practice your English and to talk about what we hear on Q-Lips, then I'd highly encourage you to join us for our weekly speaking classes.
You can do so if you're a Q-Lips member, and if you'd like to sign up and become a Q-Lips member, then just visit our website, Q-Lips.com, and you can do that. Well, everyone, that's it for me for this week. Please take care and I'll be back soon with another brand new Q-Lips episode. But until then, bye-bye.