Swimming Early in this morning, I signed up for the swimming class for the first time in my life. Actually, I've never signed up for any gym class until now. I literally hated doing exercise, but my grandmother who has been swimming for ten years said to me that having learned swimming was one of the best things in her entire life. That's why I decided to learn swimming. However, I　don't know whether I will be able to make it or not. By the way, It's almost 1:30 a.m. I want to write about the podcast that I listened today, but I should go to bed now for tomorrow. I'll upload the essay about the podcast in a couple of days.

E14. British & American pronunciation Feeling tired, I'm writing my essay. I listened to Luke's English podcast during my commute time, of course. The topic treated in the podcast was British & American pronunciation. I was delighted to listen to this episode since this is one of the most interesting topics, as for me. Basically, we Koreans always have been taught American English in every school. However, I've wanted to learn more about British English because I've been a huge Harry Potter nerd since I was 9 years old. It's a little bit cliché I suppose. For this reason, I really enjoyed learning what the differences are between British and American English. Nevertheless, It's still hard to pronounce British accent correctly. I hope I can understand all Harry Potter movies without subtitles sometime. In order to achieve this goal, I have to listen to the English podcast and write an essay in English every day.

E11. Men vs Women Today's episode was about men & women. To talk about this topic, first, the book, Men are from Mars, women are from Venus was introduced. Then, Luke and his male and female friends discussed about this topic. Actually, It was bit hard to understand what they said because they kept talking at the same time. Besides, I thought It wasn't necessary to argue it that long. I think the author of this book basically wanted to say that men and women are different. Didn't he? In my opinion, there are thousands of people and it has no meaning to divide into two types. Even though this episode wasn't quite attractive for me, I learned some interesting British slangs. 'Bloke' means a guy, 'chick' means a girl. I think it might be the informal way to call boys and girls. After I listened to the podcast, I suddenly wanted to re-watch the movie Love actually. So I watched it again in years. then, to my surprise, I noticed that Martin freeman was in the movie. I've watched this movie several times in my life, but I've never seen Martin freeman in it. In fact, the part of Martin freeman was totally deleted in Korea because of rating. Anyway, It was enjoyable to watch on the last five days before Christmas. I think It's one of the greatest Christmas movies in the world because of its background music.

My weekends I've skipped listening Luke's English podcast since yesterday. Instead of listening podcast, I read the "Annals of the Joseon Dynasty" written by Seol Min Seok who is Korean history teacher. It's very embarrassing to say, but I wasn't interested in history so far. But I found the book very interesting and it gave me many lessons. Now I know how important history is. By the way, it's almost 9 p.m. It's so sad that I have to go to work tomorrow. Why do weekends always fly away so fast? To beat Monday blues, I often listen to Spongebob Monday song at the end of the Sunday. Obviously, It's not helpful at all.

E9. Travelling to India In this episode, I listened Luke and his friend Ben's story of traveling to India and learned a few travel expressions in English. Actually, this episode was a little bit challenging to me. It was hard to understand what Ben was saying since his speaking speed was too fast for me. They talked about both good things and bad things about traveling to India. One of the good things was laid back atmosphere. I think this is why people want to go traveling to India. On the other hand, one of the bad things was hassling. They told that there were a lot of people who keep hassling outside of the airport. After the story, I also learned useful expressions such as 'go traveling', 'chill out', 'laid back' and 'ripped off'. This episode made me want to know more about India. Sadly, I've never been abroad. If I had more free time, I could go traveling abroad. Until then, I should keep practicing English.

E8. Dating&Relationships I learned expressions about dating & relationships and how English people meet their girlfriend or boyfriend in this episode(Luke's English podcast). It was very interesting for me to know these. According to this episode, English people usually meet someone in the pub. Koreans also meet someone in the Korean bar or pub, too. But I prefer to meet someone not stranger. I might be too cautious about meeting someone. Anyway, I newly learned the expressions like "To flirt with someone', 'To have chemistry', 'To drift apart' and 'To split up with someone'. I hope I can use these expressions someday but it doesn't mean I want to split up with someone. These days I keep listening to Luke's podcast every day on my way to work and home. It's one of the favorite parts of the day.

E7. Susan Boyle This episode was about a woman who is Susan Boyle. At first, I thought she might be an actress. but it was wrong. she is a singer who became famous overnight from Britain's got talent. Luke teacher played her audition clip. As soon as she came out, the judges and audiences were laughing at her because of her appearance. It made me slightly uncomfortable but I thought it must have been editing of broadcasting company to give a dramatic effect. Once she started singing, people laughing at her were cheered. Obviously, her voice was FANTASTIC. After I finished listening, I learned a lesson : "Don't judge a book by its cover".

E6. Vampires! This episode was about vampires. Luke teacher introduced the movie Twilight and talked about vampire history briefly. Because I've loved Twilight since I was 15 year old, this episode of the podcast was very interesting. It was hilarious that he had watched the movie alone in the theater which was fulled of teenage girls.It must have been awkward. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the history of vampires since I listened the podcast right before I slept. This episode's language section was about expressions to describe emotions. I learned new expression 'petrified'. This means 'scared'. And 'over the moon' means 'I was really happy'. It's exciting to learn a new English expression.

E5. Joaquin Phoenix This episode was about Joaquin Phoenix who had said that he would have quit acting and start to be a rapper. I've already known that he is still actor because this episode was aired in 2009. Although I'm not a fan of Joaquin Phoenix, I really enjoyed this episode. And I learned modal verbs like could, might, must...etc.