Ha, ha, really…so you think the other way round? 
wow.
I do find Leisa (and Beca 
) hard to understand because of the accent and speed… but I find that my brain ‘tunes in’ after a minute or so…this tuning in, is relatively new - I used to struggle all the way through until recently.
On the written piece however, there was vocab and ways of putting things I had to work through on the transcript (no chance of me doing it while listening 
).
It sounds like you are making loads of progress 
which is fantastic- well done 
the location of your SSIW meetings sound a bit better than the pub-next-to-the-railway-line in industrial Leeds which I go to!..hmm 
Rich 