Learn the English Phrase TO COME AROUND and TO GET YOUR HEAD AROUND SOMETHING

In this English lesson

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

to come around.

Now, this phrase has a lot of different meanings.

I think it has five (laughs) or six meanings,

but I'm gonna talk about just one meaning today.

When you are waiting for someone to come around,

it means that you are waiting for them

to think the same way as you about something.

Maybe you think getting the COVID vaccine is a great idea,

I do too, but maybe you have a friend

who doesn't think it's a good idea

and you just hope that eventually they come around

to thinking it's a good idea as well.

So when you are waiting for someone to come around,

you're waiting for them to agree with you

or to think the same way as you.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, to get your head around something.

When you are trying to get your head around something

it means you are trying to understand it.

You might notice that I'm wearing a jacket today

and just a single shirt.

I'm really trying to get my head around the fact

that winter is probably over.

I'm trying to understand and believe that spring is here,

I'm just trying to get my head around it.

Sometimes it takes me a while to get my head around it

because I'm always worried

that it's gonna really snow hard

and get really cold next week.

Spring is kind of weird, March is a weird month

that can happen but definitely

I'm just trying to get my head around the fact

that spring is here.

I'm trying to believe that it's here,

I'm trying to understand that it is spring.

So to review, when you are waiting for someone

to come around to your point of view,

when you're waiting for someone to come around,

it simply means that you're waiting for them

to think the same way as you do about something.

And then when you are trying

to get your head around something,

it simply means you're trying to understand it

or believe it.

But hey let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Vito, and Vito says

and he wrote a little like a play here

starring Bob and the cat.

Vito says, "Bob, if I give you a sardine later,

can you run by on the video?"

And the cat replies, "That's fine with me."

Maggie gives a couple of smiley faces

and my response was this.

"That's how it goes, ha ha.

"I bribe the animals to make appearances

"so the lesson is more interesting." (laughs)

I was laughing at that one Vito,

thanks for that comment Vito.

Yeah, it did make me laugh and it made me smile.

I don't know why sometimes the animals appear

and why sometimes they don't.

I do know this, if I make my video later in the day

and if it's close to the time when Jen normally feeds Oscar

and feeds the cats, if I make the video around four o'clock,

I think sometimes the cats think I'm Jen

or they think I'm going to give them some cat food.

And I'm not the one that feeds them, that's not my job.

That's one of the jobs that Jen does on the farm.

If I was in charge of feeding the cats,

I would forget quite often.

And they are farm cats,

I mean they do hunt and they do find their own food

if you know what I mean, but we do feed them as well.

We're not going to just let them live in our barn

without giving them cat food every day

so we do take care of our cats.

Sometimes there's a lot of them though.

And I know my daughter loves the fact

that we have many many cats

but sometimes when I'm buying the bag of cat food,

I sometimes wonder why we have so many of them.

But yes let's get back to the weather,

it is beautiful out here today.

I actually haven't seen my mum for several weeks.

We're going to go and visit my mom this afternoon.

She will sit on her porch and we will sit in her driveway.

We'll sit at least two meters or more apart

and we will visit her outside to be safe

but I am really looking forward to seeing my mom.

I do talk to her on the phone usually once or twice a week.

I know when the pandemic started

I was phoning her every day,

but that was a year ago. (laughs)

So I do usually talk to her a couple of times a week

but I just thought it'd be fun to pop by.

Such beautiful weather we can just sit outside,

it should be really enjoyable, see yah.