Not bad....just...different.

I started this blog because it was the thing to do. "Everybody is blogging" " Do you have a blog? " I rapidly found out that I didn't think my life was that interesting or didn't want everyone to know every little detail. So the last couple of years I have restrained myself to sparse Facebook status updates often deleted before they are even minutes old.

Three weeks in Guam have given me infinitely more blog fodder.

For example our first trip to the local grocery store forced me to come up with some way to handle the "eeewwwww"s and "gross! these people eat this" comments that were coming with every summit of the freezer divider in the meat department. I attempted a "learned dietary behavior out of necessity of available local resources" explanation that was cut off by a squid at the end of the next isle - followed by an eyeball cast sideways by a nearby Japanese lady.

It then became obvious that since we are now living among them, we were going to have to embrace these things that were so different. Yeah, that's it. Instead of belching the guttural potential dislike for something that we know nothing about we need to realize that things here are not bad...just different. Not only food, but in most aspects of life on a small island in the Pacific. Some of it we will try, and... some of it we will leave for the more...uh, culturally experienced. In the mean time we can remain grounded by McDonald's, Taco Bell and KFC in the event that we are tempted to stray too far from home.