OIC--Only In Chuuk

·         The water comes half way up the car door because of the potholes

·         You are doing children’s lessons in the church and a group of kids steal some of your stuff and run away

·         You are driving down the road and two men are fighting. Okay, that could happen anywhere.  However, OIC does one of the men have a machete and is trying to chop the other one to pieces. (No joke)

·         You order fish at the restaurant and they’re out.

·         You ask what the fresh fruit of the day is for breakfast and it is apple and orange.  Note: apples and oranges do not grow here.  I wanted pineapple, mango, soursop, papya, guava…anything but apples or oranges.

·         It takes four days to get your luggage.

·         You meet three guys from Edmond, OK at your hotel

·         The hotel does not have hot water and showers are miserable.

·         The power goes off every few hours (Okay it can happen in Pohnpei and Saipan too)

·         You can’t even enjoy a graduation ceremony because the guy in front of you spits beetlenut every 68 seconds.  Then when he turns and looks at you, his mouth is covered in red. Gag.

·         Can spend a solid two hours dialing over and over and over again to get an outside line to call one’s credit card company because my card has been hacked and have had 8 unauthorized transactions in the last couple of days.  (What a week, huh?)

·         Can one sit on their balcony, 25 feet from the water, watch the sunset....