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[Music] hey I haven't seen you in a while where were you I went to South Korea to join an exchange student program you went to South Korea yeah I applied for the program at the Scholarship office of our University and I got accepted what were you studying Korean language where did you stay I stayed at Soul National University on the campus at like dorms or something yeah wow were they nice very nice better than ours how long were you there I was there for 10 months that's a really long time yeah did you get homesick

a little what are the South Korean people like typically they will avoid talking to foreigners but if you need help they are very nice and would go out of their way to help you appearance means everything in Korea your hairstyle dress scents the shoes that you're wearing they love to look trendy they are incredibly respectful to their Elders if there's even a one-year difference in age they'll make sure that the Elder is respected properly really that's so interesting what did you do there other than studying I visited a lot of attractions like palaces museums Parks

markets and temples soul is unlike any other city that I have visited did you have any difficulties getting around not at all the public transportation in Soul is excellent what did you think of the food the food was good to begin with it has its own kind of spices they use pepper paste and pepper vinegar and a lot of their Foods they eat a lot of seafood like squid octopus shrimp and crap and rice I suppose right yes of course rice too I particularly liked a dish of vegetables egg and noodles mixed together I also

have a traditional side dish of salted and fermented vegetables called kimchi which is served at nearly every meal food was very very cheap and clothing was cheap on the outskirts of the city where the University was cool what was the highlight of your trip the best part of my trip was probably the cruise along the Han River when I got to see all the great buildings at [Music] night it was very beautiful the night view was unbelievable and I was able to have dinner while admiring the view of the Han River I could also enjoy

a live musical band on board which was lovely it was one of the unforgettable EXP experiences I had in Korea wow did you have any problems during your stay there no I didn't have any problems I thought all the people were very nice and I really had a good time can you speak Korean now yes I picked up a lot of words and phrases I enjoyed being abroad for 10 months it was a nice experience to get out and live somewhere else [Music] how's your son Nicole he's 25 now right that's right he's 25 well

he's a firefighter now does he still live with you and your husband yes he does he says he can't afford to rent an apartment because it's too expensive and he doesn't earn enough money he gives us some money every month for bills and you know it's nice to have him at home but we'd like him to be more independent he told us a few days ago that he's planning a twoe vacation to Canada with his friends I mean it's true that he works full-time and we know he needs a break but we think he should

save his money so that he can get his own place to live should we talk talk him out of going to Canada you know to be honest I think you're being a bit hard on him I mean he's only 25 it's good that he has a job and everybody needs a vacation my advice is that you should let him go to Canada and when he comes back you should sit down with him and talk to him about starting to pay rent that way he'll understand that he needs to start planning for the future and to

start thinking about renting apartment there are a lot of young people still living at home in their 20s and 30s and some of them don't even have jobs so in many ways I think you're lucky yeah you make a [Music] point I've got a problem Maria and I need your advice sure what's your problem well a month ago my friend Claud and I decided to go on vacation together to Los Angeles so we planned everything and or I was really looking forward to it as Claudia is an old friend and I don't see her very

often but the other day she told me that she invited another friend of hers somebody I don't know a girl called fee to come with us Claudia never asked me what I thought I don't even know Phoebe and I really don't want to go on vacation with someone I don't know what should I do I think it was kind of thoughtless of her to invite Phoebe without telling you and she's put you in a difficult position you have several different options you could say that you aren't going If Phoebe goes or you could just cancel

and suggest having another vacation later with just the two of you or you could invite someone else who you like and then there would be four of you but in fact you might like Phoebe maybe she's a nice person so I think you should try to get to know her first if you like her then the vacation will probably be a success if not then you should tell your friend you aren't going because you don't think it'll work with Phoebe okay okay I'll give it a shot I'm trying to get acquainted with Phoebe first and

see if we can get along thanks for the advice what kind of jobs have you had so far Mike um well the first job that I can remember was in high school I had a part-time job working at a fast food restaurant really yeah I started out as a cashier and mostly on the weekend and after a couple of years I got to be manager so all the way through University I worked there did you like it yes a lot of my friends were working there so that made it a lot of fun but when

I graduated from University I really wanted to get a job in my field so I got a job as an economist after that an econ ecomist yeah I worked as an economist for a little over two years and uh I didn't really like that job it was so boring on top of that I didn't get along with my boss he was always asking me to work overtime I didn't really like the atmosphere there so I quit what did you do after that after that I wasn't sure what to do I went back to Phoenix and

stayed with my parents for a while then I got a quick job at a grocery store I only got the job because I was broke and needed a little dough to live on before moving on I thought it was hilarious that this grocery store maybe go through some lengthy training and orientation so I could stock Dairy and do super basic customer service was it full-time yeah it was full-time in the meantime I went back to University and I got my master's degree in English wow that's great so you became an English teacher yes I read

in a magazine about a job teaching English overseas in Thailand so I applied for that job and I got it wow Thailand did you like that job um yeah that was a very interesting job I mean it was my first time overseas and it was my first time teaching so I really enjoyed it and I like those students a lot but I just had a one-year contract and certain aspects of living in Thailand were difficult so after my contract was finished I came back to the US and continued to teach English here I needed to

try and fail to figure out what I'm good at and what I like the more experiences I was exposed to the more I [Music] learned Sam have you heard Ron might be fired soon no I had no idea I wonder what happened have you ever worked with him yes I worked with him last year and I've heard stories about him for years I've never worked with him directly but I know people that have and they say he was always shouting and screaming threatening to fire [Music] people and Martha told me he took credit for one

of her ideas she had this idea for a project and she brought it up at a meeting and he liked it he made her do all the work planning it then when the project actually got started Martha was left out of it and her name was not mentioned anywhere I heard the project won an award because it was brilliant that's right Martha saw red when she heard about the award because she didn't get the credit she deserved but she couldn't do anything her hands were tied yeah Ron would have fired her if she had dared

to report him it must be a really bad bad feeling to have your ideas stolen how did you find working with him it was a nightmare because he was very tough nobody dared to contradict him for fear they might lose their job people were genuinely afraid of him I heard many people had a hard time working with him were you on good terms with him yes I did my best to St in his good books because I needed this job and I was lucky I didn't have that much contact with myself they're doing a full

investigation so I suppose a lot of these stories are going to come to light I hope so I really hope he's not coming back thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos like this [Music]