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Todays story is for pre intermediate learners.
The name of the story is why blood is read.
You can find a transcript of the episode@easysystoriesinenglish.com bloodred thats easystoriesinenglish.com bloodred b l o d r e d there.
You can also download the episode as a PDF recently I went to Hamburg on a holiday, well sort of on a holiday.
I had a family funeral to go to and I decided to stay a few extra days.
A funeral is when someone dies and you have a celebration of their life.
It was the first time I was going abroad since COVID and I hadn't been to Germany for many years, so I decided to make a little holiday out of it.
The family situation is a bit complicated.
The deceased, the person who had died was my german grandmother, although technically I wasn't related to her.
My dad's first wife was german but died shortly after giving birth to my brother.
My dad married my mum a few years later and had me and my sister.
So officially she was my half brother's grandmother but he's always just been my brother and she always treated us like her grandchildren.
My Omar, thats German for grandmother, was an amazing woman and so the funeral was very emotional for me.
I cried a lot.
She was a very practical person, she didnt like things to be complicated so she decided to have a private cremation and burial.
What this means is her body was burned and buried, put in the ground, but none of us knew when or where exactly it happened.
So we had a memorial service, a church service to remember her, but we didnt actually go to the place where she was buried.
It was lovely to see all my german relatives again, although we dont see them that often so its hard to remember everyones names.