Hafa Adai again peeps. Hope you had a relaxing and fun spring break. I for one had an enjoyable one. A couple of friends came up to visit and we hung out in New York City. And I had the utmost fun being a tour guide of sorts, even though my party did get lost a couple of times. At one point we walked back and forth on 42^nd St. and my friend was ever so kind to point out the NY Public Library each time we passed it. What a guy.

Anyhow, I for one take pleasure in beating dead horses… so I have to raise the snake issue once again. You see... I was watching this documentary on bats on PBS, and I would like to quote to you a bit of the narration. [Imagine this in that low pitched, serious toned, voice of David Attenborough] "Many cultures have consumed bats as a form of cuisine, especially on the Pacific Island of Guam, where the people there have eaten the native bat population to extinction." Now, after laughing for a good half-hour or so, it dawned on me. Perhaps we can use our culinary resources to solve our snake problem. Think about it. A few hungry Chamorus decided one day to make bat soup. Now the only bats we see on the island are floating around in a big bowl of soup at a fiesta…. or licking to death some poor Japanese lady on the tourist channel. And being that rattlesnake is a delicacy in areas of the southwestern United States, there is no way that we Chamorus can allow a group of our Caucasian cousins to out challenge us when it comes to eating exotic, i.e. yucky, forms of meat. The possible recipes are endless. Keluguen Treesnake [ I’m sure they’d have to pile on the lemon juice and hot pepper in this one], Kadon Treesnake, and what would probably be my personal favorite…. EskeSNAKEbeche. So, using our great collegiate minds, let’s try to come up with some sort of recipe. I’ll offer your kids free medical care if your recipe ends up ridding our island of those darn snakes [and who says I’m not doing my part with this snake problem?].

After checking out our student directory, you’ll see that our Guam online college student community has grown to nearly 50 strong. Which is not bad for being online only 4 months. But I hope you all are spreading the word about our little place here. Oh, and just another simple plug to ask you all to contribute more articles… por fabot!

This month’s featured writer is Trina Taitano from the University of Oklahoma. Not only is she one of the friendliest people on a chatroom we both frequent, but she is also the fastest typist.

Oh, and I just received word that six of our island’s high school seniors have been accepted to the prestigious University of Pennsylvania. Congratulations guys and gals. Keep up the good work and make your island proud.

If any of you plan on graduating at the end of this quarter/semester… please please PLEASE let me know, so that you can be recognized on our offisland.com announcements page.

Now, for the rest of us…. Get back to studying =)

Brian J. Que

New York Medical College