While I was reading chapter one of Field Working: Reading and Writing Research by Bonnie Stone Sunstein and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater I learned how simple it was to find something extraordinary. "We don't always need to go very far from home to find groups of people whose ways of behaving and communicating are different and interesting, yet unfamiliar to us" (Chiseri-Strater and Sunstein 6). This was clear when Rick Zollo only traveled forty miles from his home and entered a whole new "trucking" world. I found this extremely interesting how something so normal to us could be so peculiar once we take a deeper and more personal approach. I am very excited to take a closer look at my own life and see how it also is much more interesting than I ever thought.

        In the article about the Nacirema I could not help but find it actually kind of comical. The most normal and everyday things that I go through everyday could be so weird to someone who walked in to my life from another world. What is so normal to me once looked at long enough will actually become extremely odd. In contrast, the Ilongots headhunters from the Philippines and understanding their rituals is difficult. Yet, when we take a look at the strange long enough and actually experience it we start to feel the familiarity in it.