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"The Home Away From Home"

Sichuan, China - April 28, 2009 to May 3, 2009

Jiuzhaigou_112_04302009 - Five Flower Lake in Jiuzhaigou
Five Flower Lake in Jiuzhaigou
28-April 2009 to 3-May 2009: Once uncle got home from work, we conversed for a bit. Unfortunately, he had a pretty thick Sichuan accent or dialect going and we really couldn’t understand a word he was saying.

It reminded me of when one of Julie’s former coworkers who was Scottish took us out for some English tea. And her husband had this really thick Scottish accent that I could barely make out what he was saying. But at least this was in English. With the uncle, I could only imagine how someone fluent in Mandarin Chinese would have trouble understanding this guy…

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