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TIME WASTERS close minded people obnoxious people egotistical people standing in the middle of the walkway common manners (not saying please, thank you, youre welcome ) passive agressiveness
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I was very excited to find out i was getting to take my kimohana tomato plant home. Mostly because my sister would stop bugging me about getting tomatos for our yard. My dad use to grow cherry tomatos at our old ewa beach house but ever since we moved to waiaane we never had the time to grow a tomato plant again. My familiy eats grapes and cherry tomatos like theyre actually really cherries and grapes one minute you have a whole bowl of little tomatos the next minute theyre all gone because we inhaled all of them. When i actually picked the plant up and put it into my car all i could think of was ohh noooooo how am i going to take care of this thing so i began to be very nervous but i remebered my plan. As soon as i got home that night i placed it outside on a wooded platform we have in our back yard where are aloe and green onion grows. I decied not to water it that night because it was drizzling. When it was a few days older i decided i was going to replant into a bigger pot and place it more into the sun and water every night after i get home from practice so that it gets the same amount of water. So far so good.
Eating a locally sourced meal wasnt that diffcult for me but i wouldve never been consciuous of eating all locally sourced food unless assigned to. At my moms office they do a lot of work with maʻo and kaʻala farms. So i often get my salad from maʻo their famous sassy greens to be exact. But of course i couldnt just eat leaves alone i needed to find some meat well locally my freezer is always have a freezer full of fish caught from my uncles and cousins and we still had some ahi that my sister so greatly filted for me. But i cant just eat sald plain i need some sauce. So i asked my aunty who works at kaʻala farm if she had left over dressing i wish i could tell you whats in it but her secret recipe all i know is i asked her if everyhting is locally sourced and she just told me “ no worrehs bebeh” so was my dressing on my ahi salad was locally sourced i guess the world will never know. What i can take away from this expirence is i should be more aware of where my food comes from espically if the option of eating local is right in fromt of my face
I have never been to any farm any where outside of Waiaane before let alone all the way on the complete oppisite side of the island. At the field trip we walked around a lot but i was glad we got to learn first hand about this location. Waimanalo is named waimanalo because all the springs located there and thats why its so easy for many plants to thrive there. At this farm they grow many fruit trrees, kalo, sugar cane, and even flowers. They have very adavnce aquaponic systems growing there herbs and high tech fences to protect plants like uala to be eaten by the wild pigs that roam the area. This farm in Organic certified and on this day its actually not that easy to stamp on Organic on your produce you actually have to be very careful on how you grow the palnt have a inspector come out inspect that plants and look over all the paper work you have on hand. I also learned that organic does not imeditaly mean chemical free there are many natural chemcias out there that companies can use to help grow there plants better or bigger and still stamp organic certifed.
Walking barefoot in the ʻāina is one way to make one a Hawaiian but its not the only way for one to embrace the mana in their Hawaiian blood. the expierence
From on top of the ahupaa I am able to see the ugliness of Mokauea almost everyday. I say its ugly because of all the development that has damaged the land. it saddens me because I wish I could've seen what it looked like before of all the destruction. I not only hate the city life but I actually have a fear of the city the tall structures gives me anxiety I feel like I'm trapped when I can't see the sky but when I look at "sand island" nothing good comes up and that why I think the mana is lost. but the more I learn about it the more I learn the It is my kuleana to restore the mana. my first time down at mokauea was the first day of paddling practice. although sometimes I dread practice I love the sport. so I learned to share my passion of paddling with the aina there. although the water is disgusting there its so interesting to hear the stories of what that place use to be. before I go to Mokauea I want to make sure I have a open heart and open to connect more with the aina and the kai that I share my passion with to understand what I'm looking down upon everyday at school. last but not least I wish we could spend the whole day there because the sunset there is stunning.
A Hawaiian scientist is my dad...
A man who practiced Hawaiian culture by combing the knowledge from his grandma skills about la’au lapa’au and his uncle’s skills of the kai. My dad was our family scientist although he was mainly a waterman and I say waterman because he was a fisherman, diver, and surfer etc. he also knew a lot about the aina and how to grow his own food in our small backyard to feed his whole family and even friends. My dad never taught me very little how to fish but I remember hearing stories of him fishing and teaching my sister. My dad did teach me how to diveand lay nethe knewwhen the best time wasto go where to go and when to go out when you wanted to catch certain thing he understood the pattern of the waters. He also was a surfer and my dad would sit in one specific spots for hours not catching anything until he saw the perfect wave. Not only was he one of the best watermens i knew he worked great in the backyard Anything my mom, sister, or I wanted to grow my dad would help us my sister wanted so he planted papaya trees that grew papayas as big as my head I wanted to grow kalo so he made me a mini mala my mom always ate banana so he grew banana trees he also grew Ulu,calamungai, papaya, sunflowers, kalo, hawaiian chili pepper and many diffrent flowers like pikake and roses to keep our house smelling good. Most people didnt know when he was a small kid he would pay attetion to his grandmother and learned all her skills of natural medicine. He made himself noni to drink everyday and when we had burns he would pick the aloe from the back yard. Science to him was just a boring school subject but little did he knew he was one of the smartest scientist i knew. He payed close attetion to the little details and he kept doing things over and over again. Lastly my dad never went to college but he taught me the greatest lesson and that was how to be a strong worker and work to the best of your ability. I hope to live on with all of his skills of being a watersman and aina man but most importantly a familiy man. During hurricane lane I did not really observe the little details like what moon it was, the visibly, and the flora/ fauna because we had to stay in the house. what I did notice was the air got chillier, the wind got stronger, but no rain at all. I did notice the tides change and the high tides were very tide and the water became murkier than usual. my feelings towards this storm was annoying because my family and I had a busy schedule but luckily my family was well enough prepared for the storm to come.
MALAMA HONUA IS to me is more than its literal meaning of taking care of the earth it means giving back to what gives us everything we need. Mālama honua in its simplest turn is important to the survival of mankind. Taking care of ‘āina shouldn’t be a hassle to me it’s a responsibility and in away respecting my kupuna. Some events that have shaped me into having a mālama honua mindset is watch my dad take care of our yard learning how to grow your own food and another event is being a surfer I don’t enjoy surfing at beaches that are polluted. I hope to learn more about what impact Hokule’a and Hikianalia had on a worldwide level and being a part of something bigger then myself.
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