.: Date and hospital...

Two days ago I received a phone call from a guy asking me out on a date. At first I told him, no thanks, I do not go out in the evening, I like another guy, I am definitely not dating anybody until next year… etc. etc. but then I guess he buttered me up so well, that I accepted to go out for lunch with him. It felt good receiving a bit of attention for once. He asked me where I would like to go. I though about the food options on the island, and then I said, all enthusiast “let’s go to the hospital cafeteria!”. Long silence on the other side of the phone. “Wherever you want” he said.

Only yesterday driving home I realized that the hospital cafeteria may not be best place to go for a date. I was laughing with a friend about going for a double date! Yes, a double date to the hospital cafeteria! Oh god! I need to get out this island before it is too late!!! ;-)!

The funny thing is that all my friends asked me the same question: is he married? Well, I though, I guess no. But thinking about it, the only Samoan over 30 that I know that is not married is Utu, the guy that ran for governor this year. Unluckily he lost (for very very very little!) and one of the reason is that “he needs a wife”. On my opinion, he is one of the most charming guys I ever met, and maybe he does not have a wife because I could never find somebody he really likes. Is that a problem? Being picky? I really do not like this kind of politics. I still feel sorry for poor Clinton that had to go through so much for cheating. Like if he were the only guy on earth doing it. But, again, I come from a country where porn stars have their own well attended political party, so, really, what do I know about politics?

Anyway, returning to “dating in American Samoa”, some of my friends receive many phone call from laying married men, so now I am worried that there will be a jealous big Samoan lady ready to bit me up at lunch! I guess I just hired some undercover bodyguard to follow me! ;-)

I am leaving in 2 weeks! My whole days are revolving around this event: I need to prepare meetings in Oregon, finish my class on-line, study for the GRE, finish the food in the fridge, plant the garden, exercise, get a tan ;-) …. And the schedule gets more exciting to the day (so far, Honolulu, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Corvallis and somewhere in the mountains)!

The only exciting thing I did last week was to go out for Palolo another night. I slept in a fale at the very tip of coconut point and kayak outside the reef with a friend around 2.00am. The only light we had was the moonlight, with makes everything so silverfish… going over the reef was a bit exciting because of the waves, that you could not really see until we were totally immersed in them. No Palolo, but the moonlight tour of the Pala Lagoon was wonderful anyway. Then back to sleep in the fale. I love waking up and have that pure island feeling. No walls around you (just a very necessary mosquito net!), only palm trees, a sandy beach, some birds running in the low tide… and it is just another working day like another and at 7:30 I need to clock in my office... Island life.