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Despite not being a native English speaker, I always thought my English is fairly good. That was until I arrived to Australia. Those first weeks of trying to understand the Ozzie accent, were agony. It took me about six weeks to get comfortable with the accent and I was staying with this fun lovely family for only one week. They were absolutely fabulous. Unfortunately my head felt heavy from having a severe cold. It was like my head was bobbing as I struggled to keep it up straight and my eyes open. Yet being there with these great people I tried my hardest to get to know them and converse with them.

It’s not that I don’t like the Australian accent, but I simply couldn’t understand. Accents are tricky.

 

Soon I developed a way of coping. Laughing when they laughed, nodding when it seemed something to agree on and asking a question when the topic seemed closed.
It worked most of the time. The time it did not, was a moment to remember.

 

It was during a Christmas dinner. A lot of family was sitting around the table and the conversations kept a quick pace. My heavy bloated head couldn’t keep up, so I deployed my conversation coping technique. It seemed to do the trick, until the whole gathering fell quiet and in the distance I could hear someone saying: “What do you think, So?”
My head turned around with a look of bewildered surprise. It had question marks written all over it. Busted. I had been more occupied with the food than with the conversation and now they knew.
Luckily one out of the crowd came to my rescue by adding: “…of redheads. What do you think of redheads?”
Oooh, right uhmmmm and that was it. Mos

t of the people had already resumed their conversations and my moment of fame had passed.

 

Great, from now on these people will remember me as the girl who had no interest in them cause she was too busy stuffing her face with food.

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