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Hello everyone and welcome back to English Cozy Chat,
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Hello everyone and welcome back to English Cozy Chat,
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a slow English podcast which helps you to learn English in a fun and natural way.
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I am Maria and today we are going to have a cozy coffee chat about what I've been doing lately.
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I wanted to start off by talking about my coffee cup.
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Isn't this beautiful?
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One of my friends makes pottery,
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and she made this cup for me one time
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when I was sick she came over to my house
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and she brought me this cup
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and some tea I think it was just the nicest little gesture a gesture is something nice someone does for someone else.
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And every time I look at it,
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I think about my friend and how she made this with her hands
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and how she put real work into making this and that she gave it to me.
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So sometimes it's just extra special when you have something,
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could be a cup or something else,
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that you know was made by hand and that someone really put love and care into making that object.
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So this cup is really special to me.
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Cheers to that.
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Okay, so on to what I've been doing in the past weeks.
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We had a three week break,
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meaning my kids were off of school for three weeks for the holidays.
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And for any of you that have kids,
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you'll understand me when I say that having your kids at home for long periods of time can be hard.
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It's really fun.
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I love it, having my kids home.
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But wow, It's a lot of work, you know.
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Now my kids are a little bit easier than they used to be since they're not small babies anymore,
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but still, it's a lot.
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But either way, I really enjoyed it.
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yesterday was their first day back at school
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and I was just really relieved to have a moment to myself to just get myself together
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and to be able to focus again on work and things that I need to be doing.
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During all of December, I had family here visiting us.
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My brother came to visit during the first two weeks of December,
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which is always really fun.
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And then my mom came to visit during the last two weeks of December.
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They both live in the United States and we don't have family that live near us.
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It's just our little family that live here in Barcelona.
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So it is always really,
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really nice to have family come and visit.
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It's a real special occasion.
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So my mom was here during the holiday season and whenever she is here,
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I feel like my whole routine
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and rhythm of how I normally live my life just completely changes
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because when she's here, all I want to do is to go out
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and do fun things and show her things and do fun things with my kids as well.
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So the whole time she was here we were going out and going to fun events in Barcelona.
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It was Christmas time, so there were many extra fun things to be doing.
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My kids visited Santa Claus for the first time,
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which was really exciting,
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and we just really enjoyed our time together
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and as I said about not being in my normal routine
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when she's here usually I work out almost every day I eat healthy I try to have healthy habits
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But when she's here, all of that kind of goes out the window.
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That's a good expression to learn.
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It goes out the window means it doesn't happen.
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so when my mom is here all of my good healthy habits kind of go out the window
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so when she was here I was eating tons of all of the holiday food
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and not working out and just really taking advantage of her being here.
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And sometimes I think that's important to just embrace the moment.
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To embrace the moment means to just really enjoy the moment that you're in and to not worry about anything else.
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It's kind of like having a mini vacation with your regular routine just by changing your mindset.
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So I was so happy that she came to visit.
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She stayed with us until the day after Christmas and then she went back home to the United States.
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So then we still had two more weeks left of being at home after my mom left
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and neither I or my husband were working during that time.
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And this doesn't happen that often that we are not working and my kids are off of school.
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So we really tried to enjoy this time off.
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And I really tried as much as possible to just really do nothing.
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And I know maybe that sounds weird to many people.
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I think a lot of times we think that just because we are off of work or have some free time
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that we need to travel or to go somewhere
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or to do something or to have some kind of experience to explain to others what we did during our break.
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But really, I think it's really important sometimes to just be at home,
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to just relax and try not to do much.
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And I say try not to do much because sometimes that's hard.
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We are always so used to working so much all the time and thinking about work and taking care of our families,
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that the thought of just stopping and resting can be very hard.
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So at the beginning, when I decided,
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okay, I'm gonna slow down,
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We're not gonna go anywhere.
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We're just gonna stay here and relax.
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It was a little bit hard for me.
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It feels a bit weird to really try to disconnect and take a break from the things that you usually do.
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But when I got used to it and accepted it,
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it really was super nice.
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There were several days in a row that we just didn't do much.
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My kids played.
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We played with them.
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We laid on the couch watched movies,
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I cooked, but we didn't go anywhere and didn't really do a lot.
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But I really, truly think this is so important for human health to just take breaks and not do anything.
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So I am really happy that we did that because now I feel better.
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I feel refreshed and rejuvenated, which means extra fresh.
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and yeah that was really a nice time to just be together and I'm usually really into cooking
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holiday meals but this year I decided I didn't want to cook because sometimes on the holidays
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I spend the whole day in the kitchen cooking.
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So instead of doing that,
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we decided to order food and just enjoy it that way.
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So from a local restaurant in the town where we live,
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we ordered the typical Catalan dishes for Christmas and were able to try them that way.
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And up until now, I had not actually tried the typical Catalan dishes
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because I'm always making different dishes on the holidays.
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So that was neat to try what they eat here.
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On Christmas, what they eat is something called escudella,
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which is a bowl of soup that has
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big noodles in it and meatballs small it can either have small meatballs in there
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or larger meatballs but that is usually the appetizer
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and the more typical meal actually that they eat here is lots and lots of food.
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When they gave me the menu to see what kind of food I could order,
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I ordered two things.
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I ordered the escudella, which is the soup,
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and then the Christmas chicken, el pollo navideño.
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And that is a chicken which is cooked with a Swedish sauce that has raisins
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and prunes and maybe some nuts.
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And that was really delicious.
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But there was a menu that had so many things on it.
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I was like, wow, people really eat a lot on this holiday.
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And when I ordered, I said,
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okay, I want these two things.
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And they were like, that's it?
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You don't want anything else?
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And I was like, no,
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but like soup been chicken and is a lot,
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you know, and I was going to make some potatoes and vegetables here,
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but they were like, well,
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there's all these other things.
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There's like beef and another kind of chicken and a pasta dish.
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And normally people eat all of this here on Christmas.
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So I found that really interesting,
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but we really enjoyed the food that we ate.
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I enjoyed not having to cook.
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That was kind of a Christmas gift to myself to just relax and not have to cook on Christmas.
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and it was just nice to try something new.
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And the thing that we did at home
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that I am the most proud of is I got started with making my own bread.
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If you saw my New Year's resolution episode,
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I talk a lot about how this year I would like to start making my own bread.
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And we did that.
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Well, stop.
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I didn't actually make the bread,
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but we made the starter,
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which is the yeast mixture that helps the bread to rise.
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And it took about a week of adding flour and water and waiting and making sure that it had the right temperature
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because it has to ferment.
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Actually wait one second.
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I'm gonna go get my starter and show it to you.
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Here they are.
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I actually made two in case one of them didn't work but see I the the mixture
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started down here it's just flour and water and doing this process over
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and over and now you see that the it has risen
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and this is ready to use so now I've put it in the fridge
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and I'm going to try to make bread tomorrow
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and this is the other one which is also doing really well it's actually really funny with these sourdough starters,
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which is what it's called.
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You are supposed to give them a name to name them.
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So I let my kids name them.
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And one of them named this one Fiona,
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Fiona, which I thought was creative.
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And the other one, my one of my girls named her Starshine.
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So this is Starshine and this is Fiona.
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And it's just really exciting.
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I have already gotten so much joy from making these and seeing that what we did actually worked.
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And I'm really excited about making the bread.
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And I will share it with you all once I actually do it.
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so that is all for today's episode I hope you enjoyed this little cozy casual life update
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please let me know if you did and thank you all
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so much for watching I hope you have a wonderful day
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and I cannot wait to see you in the next episode bye Thank you.
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Contesto e Sfondo
Nel video "Slow English Coffee Chat", Maria ci invita a una conversazione informale in inglese, condividendo esperienze personali e momenti di vita quotidiana. Questo formato di apprendimento è perfetto per coloro che vogliono migliorare la pronuncia inglese attraverso situazioni reali e un linguaggio semplice. Maria parla delle sue feste di Natale, delle visite della famiglia e della decisione di rallentare il ritmo per godersi i momenti con i propri cari. La sua narrazione mostra l'importanza di abbracciare le pause nella vita quotidiana e valorizzare i gesti affettuosi.
Top 5 Frasi per la Comunicazione Quotidiana
- "Isn't this beautiful?" - Usato per esprimere apprezzamento per qualcosa di bello.
- "Every time I look at it, I think about my friend." - Un modo per condividere ricordi legati a oggetti speciali.
- "It goes out the window." - Un'espressione utile per indicare che qualcosa viene trascurato o dimenticato.
- "To embrace the moment." - Importante per incoraggiare a vivere pienamente il presente.
- "It was just the nicest little gesture." - Perfetto per descrivere un gesto gentile fatto da qualcuno.
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