My locally sourced meal that I ate was Akule from back home in Kauaʻi. I was given 30 Akule by my dads friend. It was very easy to get because we were at the store when my dads friend gave us a full trash bag of Akule. To eat locally sourced meals back home in Kauaʻi is way more easier than to find locally sourced food when Im in Oʻahu. In Kauaʻi a lot of people hunt or fish, and they also give away either to friends of strangers. Thats just how the lifestyle is on Kauaʻi.
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We went to a organic farm in Waimanalo and learned how they manage their farm and how to be sustainable . They also taught us information about what they were growing there like ʻolena, kō, and kalo. I learned a lot of new things like when to harvest ʻolena and how to replant ʻawa. Then we cleaned out the weeds that was growing in the ʻulu patch and made it more presentable.
Throughout the first quarter I have learned a lot of new things. I learned how to be more observant in nature. We had to observe hurricane Lane and what we experienced. I also learned a lot about how to manage a mala and to be sustainable. Lastly I learned a lot of new information about my ahupuaʻa of Hanapēpē on the island of Kauaʻi. I learned the name of the wind and the rain and the rich history behind my homeland.
I feel that Mokauea island is really an island that is lost in time. It is an island that has so much history that has been untouched by the government and is literally in the middle in the most developed area on Oʻahu. It is an island for Hawaiians to reconnect to the ocean. Mokauea is nowhere where it should be but it is on the road to recovery. I think that this trip will be an eye opener for me to see this island for the first time. I hope that I will be able to learn a lot more about this island.
A Hawaiian scientist is a person who has Hawaiian blood that studies the world around him/her and how it works with a sense of Hawaiian culture intertwined within their studies.
On Wednesday that we were released to prep for the storm it was overcast with a few showers here and there but for the most part everything seemed to be normal. On Thursday more clouds started to move in but there wasn't a lot of showers. It was definitely very hot and muggy, there was no wind at all. I live in the dorms so I could see that the waves down at Mauli Ola were picking up. During the night there were little stars to see because of all the clouds blocking them. On Friday more clouds were moving in over Oʻahu but it still wasn't raining a lot, it was more of just little showers. Very few birds were seen during the day. During the Night it was very windy and it was very cold. On Saturday It was the same as it felt on Friday it was very overcast with a few scattered showers. Sunday wasn't really that eventful either, quite the same.
Mālama, in a basic definition would mean to take care of something but to a Hawaiians it means a lot more than that. It means to nurture anything even if sometimes it has nothing to do with you and you take care of it well and to the fullest extent.
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