Early start today, woke up with Isabel at 7:30 to get ready
for our first day of class with our lecturer Professor
Osorio. We headed to the University of Hawaii as a group by
taking the bus. After arriving Professor Osorio spoke for
about two and a half hours. He started the lecture off with
two Hawaiian prayers and by singing on his guitar. Then we
discussed Hawaii's past and its origins. We spoke about the
Chiefs of Hawaii whom are also known as Ali'i and the
ordinary people whom are known as Maka'ainana. We learned
that the Chiefs were seen as Gods and divided land by
mountain tops as political divisions called Ahupua'as. What
I also found interesting in the lecture is when the traveler
James Cook arrived in Hawaii with his men. We learned that
native women interacted with his men and they were the
reasons for so many exchanged diseases such as tuberculosis,
syphilis, and gonorrhea. Most importantly, the Hawaiian
people were polygamists and had multiple partners and
children with different partners. After our lecture we went
to the Gateway cafeteria on campus and had lunch. After
lunch we took a campus tour and got our University of Hawaii
IDs printed. After a long day we finally headed back to the
hotel and went to dinner at night at nearby restaurant that
has really good cheeseburgers. After dinner I called it a
night. Tomorrow we are going to have our surfing lessons so
I'm going to fall asleep earlier to have energy for the day
spent at the beach.
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So today was a very interesting day. When we arrived to the University of Hawaii, we attended our first lecture class on the Center of the Pacific taught by Jonathon Losario. I really liked the way he started out the class with his Hawaiian prayers and the songs he played and sang to all of us in the class. It came to my surprise that we were taking the class with Korean students at Seoul National University. The students were very interesting to talk to. During the lecture, I would have to agree with Beth that it was interesting when he spoke about James Cook and the men he arrived with. I couldn't believe that it was the cultural ways of Hawaiian native women to have multiple sex partners and to have children with multiple sex partners as well. It was just a very natural thing for the Hawaiians which is why many people had exchanged diseases. It's very interesting that Hawaii has their own language. I also found it interesting that any living thing that has arrived in Hawaii has not had any predators until our ancestors arrived about 2,000 years ago. Something that really interested me though was when the lecturer talked about Lieutenant King and how he made it his business to make calculation of population. SO he calculated 500,000 people in 1773. Then he lowered his calculation to 400,000 people and this was only because other people kept telling him that there was no way that Hawaii had a half a million people on their island. After the 2.5 hour lecture we headed over to the Gateway Cafeteria as Beth said and I found the food to be very good for college campus food. I decided to get macaroni and cheese and a turkey sandwich with lettuce tomato and mayo. I found all of it to be pretty good. After lunch and the IDs we got, we went to the bookstore and that's when I picked out my very own University of Hawaii sweatshirt which I love and can't wait to wear all the time! I got myself a t-shirt as well; and who knows I'll probably get myself something else before I leave, but I'm going to save that for the end of this trip. Then when we got back to campus, I got ready and we walked in a group of 11 of us to this Japanese restaurant. I ordered myself the California roll. It was decent, but it wasn't as good as I expected. Although, the prices were fairly reasonable which was good. I had a very exciting day and I can't wait for tomorrow when I take my surfing lessons!!!
So today was a very interesting day. When we arrived to the University of Hawaii, we attended our first lecture class on the Center of the Pacific taught by Jonathon Losario. I really liked the way he started out the class with his Hawaiian prayers and the songs he played and sang to all of us in the class. It came to my surprise that we were taking the class with Korean students at Seoul National University. The students were very interesting to talk to. During the lecture, I would have to agree with Beth that it was interesting when he spoke about James Cook and the men he arrived with. I couldn't believe that it was the cultural ways of Hawaiian native women to have multiple sex partners and to have children with multiple sex partners as well. It was just a very natural thing for the Hawaiians which is why many people had exchanged diseases. It's very interesting that Hawaii has their own language. I also found it interesting that any living thing that has arrived in Hawaii has not had any predators until our ancestors arrived about 2,000 years ago. Something that really interested me though was when the lecturer talked about Lieutenant King and how he made it his business to make calculation of population. SO he calculated 500,000 people in 1773. Then he lowered his calculation to 400,000 people and this was only because other people kept telling him that there was no way that Hawaii had a half a million people on their island. After the 2.5 hour lecture we headed over to the Gateway Cafeteria as Beth said and I found the food to be very good for college campus food. I decided to get macaroni and cheese and a turkey sandwich with lettuce tomato and mayo. I found all of it to be pretty good. After lunch and the IDs we got, we went to the bookstore and that's when I picked out my very own University of Hawaii sweatshirt which I love and can't wait to wear all the time! I got myself a t-shirt as well; and who knows I'll probably get myself something else before I leave, but I'm going to save that for the end of this trip. Then when we got back to campus, I got ready and we walked in a group of 11 of us to this Japanese restaurant. I ordered myself the California roll. It was decent, but it wasn't as good as I expected. Although, the prices were fairly reasonable which was good. I had a very exciting day and I can't wait for tomorrow when I take my surfing lessons!!!
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