Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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Nigerian-based movie, uh, and then, uh, it just tells the 
story of how people leave Africa and come here and go 
through what they go through to get, uh, 
status
adjusted 
or to get health care if they’re out of status and stuff like 
that. Just the struggles that Africans go through when 
they come to America.
INTERVIEWER:
How many movies have you made or how 
much acting have you done since you’ve been here?
MAN:
Acting—actually, since I came to this country, this 
is the second movie, uh, that I’m in. Uh, when I used to 
be back home, uh, we did a lot more stage drama at the 
university. I was actually the theatrical director for one 
of the groups at the university, so I was exposed in that 
way, so when I came, I did not want to let, uh, my acting, 
uh, ambition and aspirations, uh, go to waste.
11. LIFE-WORK BALANCE
Uh, I keep 
pretty busy
, I guess, um. I don’t, uh, I’m 
not one of these people that have a billion hobbies, uh, 
I mean, I know, there’s people like my dad who always 
has, you know, 
spelunking
and, you know, whatever else 
that he’s learning—sailing—and doing. He always has a-
a thousand things to do with, uh, all of this, um. But I-
I keep pretty busy. I’m-I’m somebody that likes to keep 
a very good life-work balance so I-I’m not sitting in the 
offi
ce for eighty hours a week, uh, but I’m married and I 
spend, we spend a lot of time together, uh. We do diff er-
ent things. Th
is is—well, this is baseball season, although 
it’s too cold. But, uh, so this time of year, there’s, baseball 
just started, which gets us all excited. Um, what else do 
we do? We love to travel, uh, and that’s, uh, that’s, we’re 
getting ready for a trip right now.

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