Field Trip

Wednesday, August 10, 2005
EWC, Honolulu, Hawai’i
Today’s field trip was very interesting. Gathering at 9:45 at Jefferson Hall yard, we departed to a school of Hawai’ian. The school name is Anuenue School. The language taught here is Hawai’ian language. But not that all about. Something behind. The school was designed to maintain the threat of Hawai’ian language in grave danger. The policy of the US State to use English as a main language and at the same time they tried to minimize the use of language of Hawai’ian language. Secondly the main activity of the school program is to teach the kids (kini) for the local wisdom of Hawaii’s. About life, about cosmic and the harmonious relations among all to be kept maintained.

The great lessons are first the admittance of the wrong of the past policy of state toward the local culture. The establishing of the school is admittance that the state want to improve the past mistaken.

The second thing is the teachers and the designers of the schools whose wide horizon and really knows things about Hawai’ian and its local wisdom. Instead of teaching what industrial requires now to teach the generation to be labors, the school teaches in an interactive method how to know the nature and the wisdom behind it.

Hawai’ian at the same time realized the fact that the Hawai’i does not belong to Hawaiian alone. It belongs to the international community who loves and who want to maintain the local tradition. They are not become selfish then. They do not become what we know now is as fanatics. That’s the amazing thing.

Went to Windward side of Pali Lookout. This was not new for me. But what I saw was they managed well, clean and beautiful. Having Photos there.Lunch at Kualoa Park. The park was maintained good. It was beautiful to have lunch under the cool tree.

After lunch, here you go. Beach, beach and the beach. White, sandy beach. North Shore, Waimea Bay. Beautiful. I swam there and it was beautiful. Great man. Fantastic.

At the night, we had a APLP/Alumni Reception. It was great. My custom is interesting for the all. Well, what a beautiful day. I know that I have to gift those things to Terry and Gene. I prepared that for them.