(130) Ward spends too much time on tiny details - hoping to "put us there" - instead I am confused and bored - much like public radio news, she should write with only one or two ideas per sentence.
(131) "Thanks to the Peace Corps of my generation, the water seal toilets there will work for hundreds of years..."
(134) "Pohnpiens are my model for raising my daughter."
(136) the evils of tourism - not yet there
(137) betel nut - she mentions it often now but it somehow escaped the first trip's account (138) she says they didn't chew until independence - though she fails to mention how she learned to chew it
(139-40) Ward chooses to spend much of this chapter giving data on the island - less on her own experience - she has become a true anthropologist
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