It's a small world after all!
In a country with 1.3 billion people, its odd that we would see anyone that we know. In the past month, we've randomly run into two people we know from Texas! Usually what happens is, we look across the room a few times with a puzzled face and then flash a UT longhorn sign to see if the other responds. Maybe the Texas, Chinese, C network is more powerful than we thought! Its great seeing people that we know out here and hearing stories of how Dad's moving in their lives and the people around them. We hope to see more Texans in the future! Yeehaw!
But Texas is a Foreign Place:
One question we are often asked is "How come you don't have a Texas accent??". We explained to them that most people in TX(at least the ones we know) don't have an accent but then they always go into a story about that one TX person they met with a drawl. An American here, even compared us not having a Texan accent to, an Australian not having an Australian accent. Apparently, Texas is as foreign as Australia.
3 comments:
How funny...Be sure to flash me the longhorn sign when you see me so I'll be sure to recognize ya'll native Texans.
We get asked that same question all the time. ALL THE TIME. I think we don't have Texas accents because our parents are FOBs and Houston isn't a rural town. TEXAS vs OU tomorrow morning!!! Hook 'em!
Oh... I'm scared the one person they were talking about with a Texas drawl was me. :)
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