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Meeting Key Leaders in Pohnpei (including the Governor!)

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The Federated States of Micronesia has its capital on Pohnpei (it's one of four states in the FSM), so we met with both leaders from the federal FSM government as well as from Pohnpei State. There, we talked to Rufino Mauricio, a senior official in the FSM and the co-author of an important book on Micronesian history.

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Chuuk, formerly known as Truk

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The government offices we visited were without electrical power. We were given a bunch of books created by teachers in Chuukese, and got to meet one of the authors, Johndy Nakamura. Most tourists are scuba divers who go immediately to a ship (called a live-aboard) for a week of diving the many Japanese ships sunk in the lagoon.