This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 989, Home Sick How to Feel Better in your new country.

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Hey Lindsay, how's it going?

Hey Michelle, I'm feeling good.

I just came back from my vacation. I took a road trip around the southern U.S. It was great. It was so fun.

Right, that's right. Oh my gosh, that sounds like a great time. So what kinds of things did you do?

Oh, we did so much. Actually, we went to this cool city called Asheville, North Carolina,

which is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Great Smokyoky Mountains and these mountains are beautiful.

They're not as dramatic as what you see in the West, but they have a very nice, just beautiful, smooth ridges and things and we did some hiking out there.

Oh, we did, we ate fried green tomatoes,

southern food, biscuits and grits, shrimp and grits,

oysters, we just did the whole southern thing.

Oh, that's so cool, that's so cool.

Wow, okay.

Well was it what you, like had you spent that much time in the South before?

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