Bubblegum

Yesterday one of the students asked me I would take her to the post office today. I told her to talk to me today after chapel. When she talked to me several of the other students asked to come along - even though they had nothing they had to do at the post office. I said sure. I had to go back to my apartment and I ended up talking with the dean of men....and so when I got to my apartment they were waiting for me.

The one girl told me that really only she had to go to the post office - that the other girls were just "bubblegum". When I asked why they were "bubblegum", she explained that it comes from a Chuukese slang expression which translates literally to bubblegum in English....but basically it means that it is just like they are stuck to us (like bubblegum on the bottom of shoe) so they are coming where we go. If we didn't go - they wouldn't go.

It maybe just be one of my new favorite expressions since there seems to be a lot of "bubble gum" in this part of the world. ;o)