Imagine living life in an aquarium. You are at peace, you are comfortable, and you are seeing beatiful sights and colors all around you. Everything that you want would be confined in this small space and would provide entertainment and joy. However, any time you strolled by one of your friends and uttered a sound, your speech would transform into a baffling and harsh hum. In Leova, Moldova I feel this way the majority of times. I enjoy the aesthetics but the phonetics provide me with great frustration and misunderstanding. Find out why: