Talking

2006-10-29T22:42:00Z

Sunday 29 October 2006 10:42PM

This morning I was talking to e on the phone, and she told me that after seven months down under I “have a slight accent.” This made me happy, although I doubt I would fool any Australians. This and the call directly proceeding it to Joe (to plan Project NYE2006, wherein my friends are coming to visit), was the first time I had talked to anyone in America since I got here. I finally bought myself a calling card, and it costs me like 4¢ a minute, which is less than it used to cost me to make a long distance call in the US. That is shocking.

Australians no longer sound that odd to me. I expect when I go back to the states that Americans will be the ones to sound odd. Not my friends though. e and Joe don’t count because they just sound like e and Joe, not like Americans, since I know them well. It’s only American strangers that I expect to sound funny.

Today I went to the coast and took a walk along the ocean. It was nice, and it sort of reminded me of February 2005, when I came to Australia for a visit and had this strong desire to just stay after spending a few days in Sydney and Collaroy by the beach. Although now I have a bit of a sunburn, which is no good.

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2006-10-25T23:01:00Z

Wednesday 25 October 2006 11:01PM

Brownen inspired me to try out the microphone on my notebook. I never even thought to use the thing because I assumed that it would sound crap, but it’s actually not too bad. Anyway, here is a reading of an old entry of mine (I chose not to ad-lib because then I would be “like uh and uh like”:

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You will hear that I still sound like an American. Alas.

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The Twilight Report - accent

Talking

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