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Hello. Today we're going to be talking

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to the people of London and ask them

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about their New Year's Eve plans, what

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they're doing, why they like New Year's,

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and uh why it's so important to people,

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and whether they have any New Year's

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resolutions.

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All right. I'm here with Anthony and uh

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what's this guy's name?

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I'll let him tell you. Oh, no. No. Shy.

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Ah, he's shy. Shy. Yeah. Okay. Maybe

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later. Yeah. He mugged me off. No. Rude

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English.

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So, the first question for New Year, how

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are you celebrating it? Well, this year

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I am actually going abroad. I'm going to

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Austria uh to have a look at what they

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do over there. Go to Austria, but then I

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think we're taking a trip to Italy as

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well. So, I'm going to get a really nice

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cultural

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awareness. Yeah, exactly. A bit of an

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awareness. But normally in in England,

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I'd go to my parents, sort of chill out

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with my parents. Okay. Eat way too much

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food. Yeah. Drink too much alcohol.

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Yeah. And then fall asleep watching

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Jules Holland. So the the alcohol

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consumption is it quite high for for you

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and your parents or just you? Um I'd say

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for everyone really the whole house.

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Yeah. It's just special like everyone

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works so hard you know across the year

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and then Christmas and New Year's is the

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time to really let loose and and drink

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as much as you want or let it all go.

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Let it all go. Exactly. Have an argument

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probably. Yes. So it ends like that

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often, doesn't it? Yeah. I'm here with

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my new friends Sky and Alysia. We're

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friends, right? Sure. Okay, thanks. Um,

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I want to ask you a question about New

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Year's. Um, do you guys have any New

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Year's resolutions this year?

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To be more positive, I'd say to be more

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positive. Yeah. And stress less. And

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yeah, that's probably it. I don't know.

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Uh, to do all the things that I didn't

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do this year, you know. And what what

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things didn't you do this year that

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you'd like to do? just uh putting things

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aside. Just getting just being more

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productive.

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Okay. Are you the kind of guy that puts

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things off a bit? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A

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lot. Same as me. Actually, that's kind

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of my resolution. Like, sincerely, I

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think I put off too much in my

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life. Yeah. And what do you think could

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reduce stress this year? Um, I don't

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know. Just like seeing the bigger

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picture. Um, and I guess like planning

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like ahead more. I don't know. Um, yeah.

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I don't know. Nice. It's quite a

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personal question really. Do you think

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New Year's Eve is overrated? I do. Yeah.

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Yeah, I do. I mean, I haven't had a lot

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of variety in my New Year's Eve

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experience, but I mean, even like living

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in London and wanting to go and see the

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fireworks and things like that, that

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would be like the idea of it is amazing.

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But then when you get there, you're

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like, there's hundreds and hundreds of

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thousands of people, probably millions

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of people here, and then you just can't

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get home cuz the tubes are done, you Is

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that going to? But um and you're you're

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trapped like sardines. I know. It's not

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It's not what you need, but I think

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Yeah. I mean, I think it is kind of

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overrated,

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but again, I think it depends on who you

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spend it with really. Very true. It's

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all about the company. Absolutely.

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Absolutely. Yeah. So, who you spend it

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with and just don't get too too drunk. I

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think that is my be my advice anyway. I

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like it. Uh Louise, do you have any New

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Year's resolutions uh for this year? I

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do have a New Year's resolution. If I

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don't complete my last one, it will be

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to do the splits. I'm about an inch

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away, so hopefully. Okay. Can you

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explain to our foreign learners what the

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splits are? Or or better yet, show us.

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Not on this floor without warming up cuz

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that would be dangerous. But it's

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splitting one leg forward and one leg

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back.

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It's a gymnastics move. Yeah. Yeah,

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that's the one. Are you into gymnastics?

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Um, I'm a trampoline coach if that

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counts. a little. I'm not very good. I

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can only do a little bit, but dancer

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mostly. Nice. And last year you said you

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haven't accomplished your uh New Year's

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resolution. What was it? Well, that what

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it to do splits. So, I've only got a

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week or so to try and get that last bit.

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Just one inch. Okay. And if you if you

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don't manage if you do manage to do that

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next year, do you have any other

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resolutions? Oh.

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Um, probably to do split leaps in the

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air better next. So that's jumping in

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the air with your legs split. Can you

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remember your worst New Year's Eve

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experience?

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Ah, yes I can. Uh, I was at drama school

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and had a massive argument with my other

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half at the time and then all of our

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friends were around. just wasn't pretty.

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Yeah, no one had a good time. It just

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kind of ruined the evening, I think. I'm

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not I maybe I was drunk. Don't know. I

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don't know. But I know I remember I

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remember that one being Was it me had an

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argument? I don't know. I don't know if

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it was me or not. Someone ruined it.

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Someone had an argument. Yeah. And it

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ruined it. But uh it was all very

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dramatic. We were in drama school and

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drinking too much. Keep talking about

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alcohol. That's bad. Just keep the Brits

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are alcoholics. I know. Would you say we

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are compared to other nations? Not the

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Irish. Maybe not. No, not the Irish. I'd

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say Yeah. I mean, on average, I think we

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like a drink more than anyone else.

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Yeah. Yeah. But I think it's like a

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steady flow of drink. We don't always

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get hammered all the time. Yeah. Saying

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that just contradicting myself now at

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the weekend. It's fine. It's fine.

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Compared to dry countries, we're

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probably uh probably doing a little bit

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more. Probably I don't know. Yeah,

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you're right. Yeah. Last year, what were

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your resolutions and did you accomplish

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them?

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I can't remember. I think they were

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basically the same, but yeah, probably

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not. I probably accomplished them for

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about the first week and that's probably

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about it. Okay.

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I didn't have any. Uh I never have any.

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If you hadn't have asked me, I wouldn't

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have even thought of it, you know. Okay.

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Try and improve every year. But that's

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cool. I'm glad I asked. Maybe I'll make

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a difference. Any New Year's

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resolutions? That's a good one. Uh

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that's good. Going to work harder.

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Definitely going to work harder. Um, a

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lot more editing. Yeah, a lot more

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editing, a lot more everything, bits and

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bobs. Just Yeah. kind of really

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concentrated this year on making 2017

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really successful cuz I did that last

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well. I kind of thought, oh, 2016 is

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going to be my year to really go for it.

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Okay. And nothing happened. Um, but

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that's probably due to my over I kind of

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overestimating myself maybe. My dreams

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are good. Yeah, exactly. I I've learned

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from it and I can move on. But um yeah,

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I really want to work hard and I think

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for everyone 2017 2016's not been a

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great year. Um just with like all the

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stuff that's been going on in the media

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and the amount of people that passed

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away, famous people that passed away. I

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know that don't know why, but that hit a

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lot of people quite hard for some

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reason. Um and obviously war isn't great

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as well. That's not great. But yeah,

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2017 work harder, concentrate more,

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try my best to spend a bit more time

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with family, you know, a bigger and

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better 2017 at work. 100%. 100%. Okay.

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My other question is, uh, what do you

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typically do on New Year's? Catch up

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with friends generally. Usually there's

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a big group of us. Um, we all get

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together every year. Um, so I shall

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probably do that. Not sure where yet,

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but yeah, that's the general gist of it.

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And what are your plans this year for

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for New Year's?

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Are we going to a party, right? Yeah.

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Yeah. Party. Mhm. Yeah. What happens at

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these parties? Cuz in in other

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countries, you know, sometimes New Year

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isn't a big thing. Sometimes at

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different times of the year. What how do

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the British celebrate New Year? Um

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basically just drinking. Yeah. Lots of

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drinking and talking and just to get to

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see old friends, make new friends. It's

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pretty casual, isn't it? I mean, people

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make quite a big deal of it in terms of

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drinking.

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Um, yeah.

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Stay up till midnight.

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Later, obviously.

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Is there any traditions after midnight?

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Like in Spain, every every chime for

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clocking, they put a grape in their

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mouth. Do you do anything like that? No,

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not I've not heard of anything like that

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really. One one other question. Okay.

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Um, what's the kind of what's the best

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New Year's you ever had? Oh gosh. Um, I

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had a good one in America. I watched the

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ball drop in New York in America on TV

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and had friends doing silly games again.

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Um, in lots of different rooms had silly

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games in and beer pong. Learn how to do

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that. What about you? Oh, no. I haven't

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even thought about it. I wrote all these

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questions, but I hadn't even asked I

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haven't even thought of the answer. For

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myself, um, I probably want to get a

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little bit more balance between travel

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and work. Nice. Because I'm I'm focusing

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a lot on work and at the moment I'm

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living in Germany and I should be

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traveling Europe, but at the moment I'm

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focusing all on my work and forgetting

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to travel right enough. Oh, so that'd be

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good. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, nice.

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So, here's to a bigger and better

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traveling worldwide new year.

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