first journal entry

Well Aloha from Hawaii!

If this note should sound tired in any way, it is
probably because we are adjusting from jet lag. Even
thought it is about 8:03 pm here in Hawaii, it still feels
like it is 1:03 in the morning. For all of you in eastern
standard time, it is still January First here in Hawaii.
Let me start out by saying Happy New Year and
congratulations to the rest of the people who finally
arrived in Hawaii today. I was one of the first people to
arrive at our hotel, the Queen Kapioloni-in fact, I believe
I was the VERY first person to arrive. This is because I
had a flight flying out of Boston on the 30th to LA and then
on the 31st from LA to Honalulu. (This would have never
happened if weather problems had not occurred.) This
resulted in students slowly being knocked off the group
flight into separate flights.
In any case I arrived 2:30 at the hotel and talked to
everyone on the phone-letting them know I arrived and to
wish them a happy new year. Finally Katie arrived at 11 PM
and she and I went out to the beach to watch the amazing
fireworks. Afterwards we walked to Cold Stone to get
icecream. As we sat outside, some people who had been
imbibing were giving us High fives for the new year.
Today we met up with the people who had been stuck in
Chicago and missed out on the new year here. They seemed
well-what would you be after being stuck in an airport for a
while? In any case we all got our leis and packets of info.
The rest of the day we were free to do what we pleased.
The final result after going to Teddys and walking on the
beach, the result is ending up here in Starbucks!!!
(So now I have two excuses for the way this entry is coming
out: 1. jet lag 2. rushing to type because I have about 6
minutes of battery power on my computer.)
Tomorrow ....will be another day.
Thus ends my journal entry.
Aloha!
(AJN)