Topic Talk | Nostalgia

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about nostalgia. Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we're talking about nostalgia and maybe we should define the term social before we. 00:00:16 Jack Go jump into the episode. 00:00:19 Xochitl Yeah, Jack nostalgia or feeling nostalgic? I would say it's when you feel. 00:00:25 Xochitl Wistful. Uh, which is another big word, but you long for you. Kind of long for or remember fondly have positive memories and reminisce about a time in the past, a place in the past. 00:00:45 Xochitl People in the past and yeah, it can definitely happen when you're feeling homesick, which is something that you feel when you move to another country and you're away from your culture, your family, your friends, your language. 00:00:57 Xochitl And it can also just be something you feel during different phases of your life where maybe you miss college or you miss high school and you miss your peers or your family, yeah. 00:01:12 Jack Yeah, I do. You can you think of a something that you're feeling nostalgic about right now? 00:01:20 Xochitl Yes, Jack. Oddly, I've been well. 00:01:22 Xochitl Maybe not oddly, because this was pretty much the time. 00:01:26 Xochitl Back a couple years ago, when I was preparing to move to Korea for the first time. 00:01:33 Xochitl And I moved February 14th. So Valentine's Day I it's late, but it was around towards the end of January when I was putting the last pieces together and packing to move to Korea to teach English. And I have been feeling nostalgic for Korea. 00:01:53 Xochitl And I am planning a trip in October. 00:01:57 Jack I know that I'm excited. We're definitely going to have to. We can finally meet face to face. 00:02:02 Xochitl Yes. Yes, I'm very. 00:02:03 Jack Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:02:03 Xochitl Excited about that? 00:02:05 Xochitl I funny because I left my last paycheck in my bank account. I don't know, I'm sure. 00:02:11 Xochitl You're aware of this? 00:02:12 Xochitl Check it's like. 00:02:13 Xochitl You can withdraw your money in cash when you leave Korea, but when they pay your last paycheck in your bank account, you can't really transfer it to your U.S. bank account. 00:02:24 Jack Right. 00:02:25 Xochitl Umm so I have like my last paycheck just sitting there so I can basically take a free flight to Korea whenever just on my paycheck. So. 00:02:34 Jack Like a spy. You know you have foreign bank accounts all over the place. 00:02:39 Xochitl Right. So it's like, so that is convenient. So I I have been thinking, OK, well, I should go back to Korea and get that money before they close my bank account down or something. Yeah, and. 00:02:52 발표자 Right. 00:02:53 발표자 So I have. 00:02:54 Xochitl Been feeling nostalgic and and it's funny because I think. 00:02:58 Xochitl Especially if you're a little bit of a romantic. 00:03:00 Xochitl In life, you tend to look back fondly at things even more when you've already left them than you did in the moment, and you appreciate certain things that you missed or liked about that place. For me, I I didn't like my job at all in South Korea. I really hated my job. It was a terrible. 00:03:17 Xochitl Job. But I liked. 00:03:19 Xochitl My apartment. It was beautiful and I really liked it. 00:03:21 Xochitl The sun, which is the city and the. 00:03:23 Xochitl Top that I lived in. 00:03:25 Xochitl Absolutely beautiful city bus ride 40 minutes away from the beach. 00:03:31 Xochitl And it was just it was lovely. And I did like a lot of good food. I really like the raw salmon sashimi bibimbop doing Janja as everyone knows, that's my favorite. So I've been thinking a lot about these. 00:03:48 Xochitl Foods and also places within Korea. I I traveled a lot just in the six months I was there, but just places I didn't get to go or you know, foods I didn't get to try things I didn't get to do that. I wanted to do like v