The beginning of my Hawaiian adventure did not start as
wonderful as I expected it to be. After my three flights to get
to this warm sunny island, i found out that my suitcase did
not leave Chicago the same time i did. Which kind of brought
me down a little and had me worried. That added to my bad
jet lag. The day later after I came back from breakfast
and my suitcase was sitting in my room next to the door, i
was so happy that i could have hugged it. After the first
couple of days i was pretty fine afterwards. Our first
lecture was really good i thought. It was about the History
of Hawaii and the native people. The lecturer Mr. Osorio was
so passionate about the subject and made you feel like this
history happened to real people not long ago. He had a real
connection to the the history because his grandma was around
from most of the recent events that happened to the native
hawaiians in the 20th century. I learned so much about the
other side of Hawaii that most people do not know about
because they only come here as tourists.
Our bus tour was also very enjoyable because we met a woman
named Aunty Mae. She was a really sweet woman who shared with
us a lot of history. She talked about her life on the island
and her families. We went to Dole Plantation, which was
really fun. We saw where all those pineapples are
grown.
Yesterday was the one of the most amazing days we had
because we learned the Hula from Aunty Vicky who, translated to English has a PhD in Hula studies and dance.
She was such an amazing and nice woman. I think everyone had
a blast learning the hula. I was very excited to learn it
and had so much fun once i did. It really was a great time.
We also went kayaking which was a great time but later my
arms hurt so much i couldn't even move them!!
Today, we had one of the funniest and most entertaining
lectures about Buddhism. The lecturer Mr. Tanabe made
everyone laugh so many times. He made the lecture really
interesting-- the time really flew by. I knew a couple of the
things about buddhism but some of it was new to me and
extremely interesting.
I really can't wait to go to Pearl Harbor. i am the most
excited about going there.
We have gone to some really good resturants while we have
been in Waikiki. We ate at Uncle Bo's and i had this amazing
chicken marsala and caesar salad. It was really really good
and i think i have to go back before this trip is over. We
also went to Cheeseburger in Paradise which was an awesome
place. It had really cool stuff on the wall and was a really
neat place. I would recommend both places to anyone who came
to this area. Wolfgang puck places good food as well i had
a bbq pizza and it was delicious. Yesterday people were craving
mexican food so we found this place called La Cucaracha
where i had an excellent beef quesadilla.
I will stop rambling about our nice warm time in Hawaii
while everyone up north is freezing to death.
Mahalo and thanks for reading
Katie Leonard
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