53: Diary Of An Ugly American

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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American teenagers travel outside the US to become more worldly — and fail miserably. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Radio Tapio.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.0	Dear Diary.
0:11.0	6th grade.
0:12.0	February 14th.
0:13.0	1991.
0:14.0	I am really depressed.
0:15.0	How could she break up with me?
0:17.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:26.0	We were in the mountains.
0:28.0	I was very remote from any city.
0:30.0	My town had no electricity, no running water.
0:33.0	The houses were all dirt-flored.
0:36.0	It was just so different from what I was used to.
0:39.0	And my fast city life.
0:41.0	There aren't many experiences as eye-opening for a teenager.
0:45.0	Then finding yourself without your parents in the middle of a foreign land.
0:49.0	You can change how you see everything, including yourself.
0:52.0	Back home, I was just this tall awkward kid who kind of everyone
0:57.0	didn't pay attention to.
0:59.0	She was always at her nose in the books.
1:01.0	And all of a sudden, now I was like the center of attention.
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