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Today’s Idiom a blessing in disguise This lesson is built around the classic idiom ‘a blessing in disguise’ — used when something that first appears bad turns out to be beneficial in the end. Two closely related expressions and key vocabulary for talking about setbacks, recovery, and positive thinking round out the lesson. Corrections focus on the article and preposition errors that intermediate learners most commonly make with these phrases. ...

Session Overview Participants shared weekly updates — from job searching and dementia research to a trip to San Diego and welding a backyard grill — before diving into the session’s main theme of nostalgia. Guided by the idiom of the week (‘cup of tea’), the group explored how smells, fermented foods, childhood sweets, and old cars can trigger vivid memories of the past. They also compared notes on revisiting once-beloved places like Guam, San Diego, and Austin, and discovering how much those places had changed. ...