Pre-departure: Townsville, Australia (MS)

3 City Dialect Test: Pittsburgh + Springfield, Illinois + Phoenix, Arizona 

Dialect Test: The dialect test was very interesting because where I was put was very widespread. It seemed that they narrowly defined me as a Pittsburgher, which I am, simply because of words I used. While the other places I was put into was because of words and dialects that I adopted from a young age as an individual not because of any relatives or area effect.

Townsville, Australia:

Where I'm Headed

Knausgaard: After reading Karl Ove Knausgaard article, it was interesting to here that even through an open-minded perspective like his own, his preconceived ideas of what Americans are like and what society is like was sort of confirmed. The beginning of the article suggested that American's, even though we are supposedly culturally diverse, society isn't exactly open to embracing those diversities. 

Trevor Noah Perspective: What kind of traveler we don't want to be-