looking for a dare to be great situation

I'd been worried that my immediate dislike for my guesthouse owner, Jan, was a function of his Afrikaner accent. It's not my favorite, with its germanic gutteral noises. That didn't bode well for my year here: in the office, they will apparently all speak Afrikaner to one another. My fears were exacerbated when the Norwegian couple staying in the guesthouse proceeded to gush about the friendliness of the owners.

You can imagine my relief when I realized last night that he looks just like the extortionist dad from Say Anything. So I'm on racist, I just rely too much on fictional character guides. *whew*