Crossing the Border: Tijuana - San Diego -Tijuana
Unexpected English!
10/06/19
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(EP 29) A story from the Mexico / USA border. We're not just for English learners! Listen, enjoy and subscribe on Spotify, Apple podcasts and everywhere!
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** RoughTranscript **
So here I am in downtown San Diego at another restaurant talking to the hostess outside, and she told me that she lives in ... Tijuana, Mexico ... I thought it would be interesting to do a little podcast because here in San Diego we're right on the border and you're proof of that I guess? Yes sir, one of the many people that commute across two countries to go to work and live. So every day, how do you get to work? So, I leave my house at 4:40 in the morning to walk 20 minutes to a local bus station and I take the 5 AM bus that drops me off at the border at 5:30 in the morning. I do about one hour and a half wait time which it makes it about seven in the morning. Wait a minute now, they drop you off and then you have to wait an hour and a half for what? To cross the border from Mexico to United States. In the bus? No, the bus drops me off to the, umm, walking way to cross to the US. Alright, what we call La Linea, right? La linea. OK, then and from there, there's so many people it takes an hour.... an hour, an hour and a half roughly if it's during peak hours which usually are in the morning because many of us work early or have school. OK, so she's got an hour. hour and a half wait to get across the border, and then once you get across... I take the trolley, the Blue Line from the San Isidro station all the way to 12th and Imperial, which takes about 30 to 40 minutes, and then I get off. I transfer to the Green Line which takes me from 12th and Imperial to County Center and Little Italy, where I get off and I walk about five minutes to get to work. So all together the trolley time is... it depends on the day, like an hour-ish, maybe more. OK, so an hour on the trolley, an hour waiting.... (someone interrupts...) OK, well, we had a little interruption because somebody was looking for a bathroom but I think you got the idea! So that's it, thanks for listening!
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Amnesty International
September 30, 2019
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(EP 28) Yes, It's another episode of Unexpected English, the podcast for English learners who want something DIFFERENT!
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OK so I was walking down the street and I see this dude wearing a yellow vest and it says Amnesty International. So I thought I'd stop and ask him what's going on. Yeah thanks, I really appreciate it. Amnesty International is a for-profit, or a NON-profit organization that’s been operation for 57 years to combat human rights abuses around the world. And we’ve actually got a new program right now that we're running 150 countries... But wait a minute, wait a minute what are YOU doing right now? Oh, I'm canvassing! I'm going door-to-door to get people engaged. it's a grassroots efforts so we can get donors on board to make sure our seven million member strong number gets even bigger, cuz it's gonna take a lot of people to help make that. So, you're saying there are 7 million members now? Yeah, in Amnesty International; we’ve been running for a really long time, so that number has been building for decades. And you're going door-to-door to get more people to sign up? That is correct. And, briefly, what does Amnesty International do? Well, we are the largest human rights organization in the world. We’re fully nonprofit with a seat at the United Nations and our biggest goal right now is to stop human rights abuses for refugees. Refugees... so where... where do we see the biggest problem of the abuse of refugees worldwide. Right now the biggest problem is that I've seen personally are in Venezuela, Israel, Syria. and right here on our southern border. I've seen the southern border stuff, we're right here about 20 minutes away. I've seen border patrol separate kids from their families of my own eyes. And it doesn't look good, does it? It does not, no sir! And that's why we’re out here trying to make a change, because someone's got to look out for them. OK well I appreciate it, I appreciate your time and I wish you the best of luck with your project. Thank you very much!
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Unexpected Irish!
October 13, 2019
•5m
(EP 30) We visit the House of Ireland! Plus an unexpected bonus! No transcript for the bonus at the end, but you can tap your feet to the music!
**Transcript**
OK so here I am in beautiful Balboa Park and there's this area called the... The International Cottages. The International Cottages where... well why don't you tell us? What are the international cottages? So the international cottages were formed back in 1935 and, uh, for the Worlds Fair and have been there, here since, and we have 33 different countries represented. Each country has a cottage. Right, and so we're in The House of Ireland right now, which is one of them, and... Oh! We're in the House of Ireland! That's fantastic, I dunno if you can hear the Irish music, let's try! .....Oops, there we go! That's, uh, Irish music in the house of Ireland. And we are open and every Saturday and Sunday for visitors and we typically have Irish food of various types here and the other cottages likewise have food from their countries, and we have entertainment, usually music and dance from different countries and cultures. OK so I can get some food at every one of these cottages and occasionally some entertainment. Correct, and then, uh, we do ours in March for St. Patrick's Day. OK that makes sense. Alright, so there you have it. You learned a little bit about The house of Ireland here in beautiful Balboa Park. Thanks a lot. Thank you! ............BONUS CONTENT: GAELIC!
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