The dean wanted us, the students, to tell you, the people
back home, about the hard and tiring work we have been
taking long strides-striving to go through. Today, it took
us...over a long painful hour to gradually raise our bodies
up to get dressed, to drag ourselves to pearl harbor, where
we were forced to feast our eyes upon the sites such as the
USS Airizona that had been at the time of the bombing of
Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7th 1941) We then were bribed with a bag
lunch to go to the Audubon Center to go swimming in the
knife stabbing cold water to receive an award for it. After
the bribe, we were promised "if we were good" that we would
go to the Sunset Beach. This took a lot of will power and
walking a Strenuous 1 foot off the bus along with another 6
painful steps to the beach itself. So clearly...we have
been doing a lot of work. :P
I'm just kidding.
We did go to see Pearl Harbor where we did get to see where
said ships (USS Arizona, USS Vestal AR 4, and more) were at
the time of Pearl Harbor. One thing I found interesting was
the back of our tickets had people who died in the time
course of Pearl Harbor. I had a man who was the first
Japanese American to die in WWII.
Then after that we did travel to the Audubon center where 3
of the group went swimming in 67 degree water I believe.
This was by a waterfall. I totally would have gone in if
anyone else was willing to go in with me.
And finally was the beach where we got to see HUGE-GINORMOUS
WAVES!!! ok Probably not as ginormous as they have been
lately. (up to 30 feet apparently) But today...weather at
the beach was ghastly. Obviously there was no swimming
allowed where we were....actually I have a video of some of
the waves...wait never mind...they're on my other
card....sorry to dangle the carrot. But it was amazing.
However it started to rain-for real-like instead of light
drizzle so we had to go back on the bus. Overall it was
great.
Tomorrow we climb Diamond Head...Hopefully that shouldn't be
too hard of a hike...(then again I have climbed Machu Pichu
and many more mountains in Belize, so how hard can this be?)
We will be coming home (hopefully (in one piece)) -after two
more days of O'ahu
Well hopefully the snow isn't that bad.
-AJN
3 comments:
Julie--ask some of the Hawaiian citizens what Daniel Inouye is doing these days...I know he was a Senator while Reagan was prez. He is a REALLY impressive guy.
Nice to hear you are working so hard--you'll be nice an fit to shovel snow again..
oh....S*** not the shovel!!!!
Yes, they are talking 1-3 inches southern VT, 2-7 inches northern VT. But it is supposed to end Friday noon. In Hartford it says "Rain changing to snow.." for Friday. so hopefully you guys will get in OK..Cheer up, maybe by the time you get home I'll have it all done..
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