Hey guys, welcome or welcome back to the podcast where your friends, Maddie and Lauren.

And we are back for another remote recording. Back on Zoom, Lauren is still in Toronto. She's been,

well, she's going to tell us what she's been up to in Toronto because she's been there for a while now. But yeah, I'm just in L.A. by myself and not much has changed in my life. So Lauren,

why don't you take it away with the life update for this week? Okay. Well, last time we talked,

I said that I was going to visit my friends at university, and I'm back from that now.

It was a lot of fun. It was their homecoming weekend, so it was a lot of craziness, but a lot of

excitement as well. It was fun to see my friends. I hadn't seen them in a few months since everyone

went off to school, and I moved to I moved to LA and we just hung out.

They, I like I met some of their friends and we went out a bit.

So that was a lot of fun.

Also, the new Taylor Swift album came out when I was with them and they are big Swifties,

like I mentioned last week.

They really like the album.

We can talk a little bit more about it later because I know that Maddie listened to it as well.

I would love to hear your thoughts, Maddie.

I'm trying to think of what else is going on in my life.

Tomorrow I'm taking my G2, which is like my Canadian driver's license test.

And those of you who have been following along

on my driving journey know that this is long awaited. I've been waiting like two years

to get my license and I've just never felt confident enough driving to be able to drive alone.

But I've been practicing with my mom a lot this week. We drove from like 12 to 7 yesterday, just around. We were running errands and stuff,

but she had me do all the driving. So I'm feeling a lot better. Other than that, I don't have

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