Why Would I?
I don’t know what has gotten into me. Whenever you travel/live internationally, there comes a point where you have reached the limits of what you are willing to experience in the culture. You have become familiar with most of the things, but have drawn a line in the sand saying that it will suffice. The problem is that after a while, you realize that you are still missing out on so much of the rest of the culture and experience. You start looking at the other side of the line you drew in the sand and think,’If I really want to connect with the culture, I had better step a little further out of my comfort zone.’ And that is what I asked our friend Helene about today.
It all started with a conversation I had with a colleague of mine about the food she has eaten. One of her stories was about how she learned to cook grub worms. Now at the time, I think I subconsciously drew the line in the sand, but the time has come to step over it.
The question some of you may be asking is, ‘Why would you tell everyone about this? Why don’t you just eat strange things without broadcasting it into the blogosphere?’ The answer to that one is 2-fold. First, our goal for this blog is to bring you along on the journey of our experiences here. Granted, we will not be able to share everything for the public eye, but I figure this is going to be an important/interesting cultural experience that some may want to know about. The second reason is that by announcing it publicly, I can’t back. Because if I haven’t written about it sooner or later, people might start asking questions and what would be more shameful than chickening out in front of all our thousands of readers? So I ask you, our dear friends, to make sure that I follow through with this. Give me 2 weeks and if I have not written something by then, you can start mocking me.
Nate
