Welcome to Easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your english from ok to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for beginners.
The name of the story is strange friends.
You can find a transcript of the episode@easystoriesinenglish.com friends that's easystoriesinenglish.com friends f r I e n d s this contains the full story as well as my conversation before it recently I have been very, very tired.
It seems like I'm always sleepy.
I have tried many things to deal with my tiredness.
First of all, I actually sleep a long time.
I always get at least seven or 8 hours sleep a night, so I don't think the problem is a lack of sleep.
But even though I sleep so much, I find it so hard to get up in the mornings.
I've tried many things to solve this.
First, I decided to put my alarm clock on the other side of the room because if my alarm is next to my bed, I wake up, turn it off and go back to sleep.
The problem was I just got up, went to the other side of the room, turned off the alarm and then went back to bed.
It was too easy for me to go back to sleep, so I downloaded a special alarm for my phone.
To turn off this alarm, you have to shake your phone for about 30 seconds.
This was great.
At first the shaking woke me up, but after a few weeks I got used to it and again I would get up, turn off the alarm by shaking it and go back to bed.
So I thought the problem with getting up might be about sunlight.
In the UK, in the autumn and winter, it's very normal to wake up and it's still very dark outside.
So I decided to buy a sunlight alarm.