We were editing these pictures for ages and then these girls came in and said,
uh, excuse me, I think that's our picture.
And we realized we had just edited someone else's picture.
It was incredibly embarrassing, like deeply, deeply mortifying.
Hello and welcome to Easy Stories in English,
the podcast that will take your English from okay to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
And today I will be talking all about my Christmas holidays in Japan because that's right.
I decided, hmm, Christmas.
What a wonderful time of the year.
What more Christmasy place could exist than Japan?
I'm joking, of course.
Japan is not a very Christmasy place.
It's perhaps a bit more Christmasy than China,
but I wanted to go there for my Christmas holidays, so I went there.
And to be honest, the Christmas part was slightly irrelevant.
But enough about that.
You'll hear all about that later.
First of all, let's just address the elephant in the room.
Hello, Mr.