Luckily, on the bus ride to my lodgings, I had met some young villagers, who recognized me on the beach while they gathered coconuts, and introduced me to their fathers and uncles, who invited me to go fishing on the reef the next day.... While I was thinking reef fishing from a dug-out would be fantastic, I would actually come to realize through the week a bit about who my new friends were....and began to be educated very subtly about Somoan customs of rank and community organization--a privilege of social status and especially gender which Mead lacked!