Old Times

Thursday night Corina and I went to a kanikapila/potluck for the Moa 'Ohana at the Hawaiian Cultural Center. It was SOOO much fun!! There was a ton of good food and good music. Unko Bobby sang for everyone and he still get um!! Here's one of my ALL time favorites that he sings, Akaka Falls. Sorry for the frequent cheering. haha.




Natalie Ai Kamau'u also came that night and sang a few sample songs for us before her concert the next night:






It was soooo good to see everyone. Reed them and Aunty Web were there too!! Corina made sure that we got lots of pictures!

Me and Unko Bobby. He's my idol!!! hahah.

Me, The Hew-Lens, and Aunty Web. so much fun!!!



Me and Corina with Aunty Leila. It turns out Aunty Leila went to school with one of Corina's aunties!! small world yeah? hahah.


Me, Corina, Aunty Web, and the Moa kids. LOVE these guys!!!



Jammin on the ukes!



We just couldn't resist having a jam sesh after the party. Man its been a long time...



You know it isn't a party without pata pata and the electric slide!! haha. Aunty Leila and Aunty
Web were breakin it DOWN!! hahahaha it was so much fun. took me back to Iosepa days!



The ladies dancing the classic, "Kamali'i o ka Po"


Unko Bobby singing it UP!

Sorry for the millions of pictures. I just need to make up for all the MIA ones in my other posts. haha.

Here's a couple vids of our jam sesh after the party.

It was an amazing night. I was SOOOO sad to leave them!!! Hopefully our next reunion isn't too far from now.

Back from the dead

OH geez, so it's been FOREVER since my last post, as you already know haha. Almost a year! haha. Wow that is kind of sad. Well... I guess I'll give you a quick rundown of what happened in my life for the last year.

1. I finished my first year in college. It wasn't too bad, and I semi-decided on a major: physics. I'm not too sure how well this will go, but I'm giving it a shot. I'm kinda worried haha.
2. I bought an ukulele!! I had brought my bass with me to college but its kinda hard sometimes to really jam all by yourself with just a bass haha. So I decided to buy an ukulele, a lanikai with a pickup. It's pretty nice, and I love it!
3. Reshley and I created a band. Kind of. hahahah! We started jamming a lot during the winter semester because he got an ukulele for his birthday, and he started writing songs and now we are Ho'okoni. haha. we have sooo much fun jamming with all of our friends, its hilarious. i
4. I got an internship in a Biology lab for polynesian students for the spring semester at BYU with Reshley and Corina. My priority in this internship was to clone Orthoptera DNA. As crazy and as not me as that sounds, I actually kind of liked it. I also love love love all the people that I worked in the lab with. I liked the internship so much, that I stayed for summer semester as well to work in the lab. Crazy? Yes.
5. I came to the realization -- well, more of a reconfirmation -- that I really do not like Utah haha. I'm not really sure why, maybe its the crazy drivers or the fact that Utah = school. haha. It really is kind of painful to drive away from home and into Utah, knowing that all there is for me here is classes and tests. hahaha. But its okay... I really love the opportunities and education that BYU can give me, which is pretty much making it worth it to live here.
6. Katchafire came to IDAHO!!!! and they were the BEST! They played at the reef, which is a pretty small venue, and so we were easily able to stand right in the front. and I mean RIGHT in the front. I could have climbed up on the stage if I wanted to and jam with them if I wanted to be kicked out. But I wanted to stay and enjoy their amazing harmonies haha. They were also all really chill and took time afterwards to talk and take pictures with us. Coolest guys ever.
7. Went to an 'Ohana Johnson reunion in Vegas!! That was so much fun. the weather was RIDICULOUS, the highest being 120 degrees F. We got hot just thinking about going outside haha.
8. I got new glasses!! haha. I actually lost mine a couple of months ago, and the loss of them really made me realize JUST how blind I am. It was actually kind of funny to realize that my eyesight had really gotten that bad. But yeah. I like my new glasses.

Hmm, I think thats all the important stuff. I hope haha. I'm going to try and be more consistent in my posts... since this is kind of like I'm starting all over again anyways haha. Reshley also suggested that I start a "vlog," which is a video version of... this. haha. I'm considering it. Maybe I'll just make videos and tell you about my life instead of typing it all out... I haven't quite decided yet.

So today we had a farewell party for Matt in the lab. We went to Brick Oven and ordered some pizza, one of which was a pepperoni pizza with a quarter of it cheese. How would you interpret that? Well, the cooks interpreted it as a full pepperoni pizza with a quarter percent of the cheese they normally put on top. It was SO funny; we were all wondering why the pizza looked so saucy. After we went to Brick Oven we went bowling in the BYU bowling alley... and I am proud to say I bowled a 52. Ok, I'm not really that proud to own up to that, it is actually a really horribly sad score, but it was hilarious. Beka was freakin awesome, got a spare or a strike every... square... I think haha. It was a lot of fun, but I am SO sad Matt is leaving!! The lab will not be the same without him.

Afterwards I went home and jammed for a little bit, and then found out that I got Stacie's Blackberry in the mail (oh, becuase I dropped my Pixi in the rain one day and forgot about it until like, a half an hour later. Yeah, perfect way to destroy my phone haha. It recovered for a little bit, but it is now feeling the effects of the rain and will randomly turn off by itself, not charge all the way, and run super slow. I'm so sad cuz I love my phone, but I'm okay with moving to a Blackberry.)! Now I have to figure out how to use the thing and transfer my number and contacts and all that good stuff. Phew.

Hm... I guess that's all I'll write for today, and maybe next time I'll be more productive and actually post some pictures. :D

Well, Hello! This is officially my first post on Blogspot! Woo hoo! I created this with the encouragement from my older sister, Stacie, who told me it would be a fun idea to start one since I'll be off on my own in... geez, just a few weeks now. Just a little background info before I start off on my future: I just graduated from Eagle High School with highest honors, and am going to Brigham Young University (Provo) for the fall and winter semesters.
So that pretty much brings us to now, leaving me with exactly two weeks at home until I'm in Utah.
Current emotions: Excited, terrified, intimidated.
If you know me really well, you know how much I absolutely love spending time with my family. It is going to be a whole new experience being in a completely different state and not having the immediate support of my family just around the corner. Sure, they'll still be just a phonecall or a 'webcam' away, but I'm still finding the whole aspect of being alone quite intimidating.
However, I am pretty excited. I have some friends from SOAR (Summer of Academic Refinement, probably THE best summer program at BYU, in my opinion) in Utah that I am really looking forward to meeting up with again that I've missed a lot. And, I can't deny that I'm excited to shop. Utah definitely has a couple of stores that we are deprived of here in Idaho. And, as crazy and nerdy and... weird as this might sound, I'm actually very excited to get back to the school aspect of college. I've really been enjoying my summer, but my brain is MIA and I'm looking forward to testing myself and seeing how I handle this new frontier.
That being said, I am... partially prepared to go to college.
I registered for my classes a couple of weeks ago -- a process that took way longer than I'd expected. Of course I procrastinated to consider my classes until the day before registration, and it literally took me ALL DAY to figure out which classes I wanted, when I wanted to take them, and what would replace them if I didn't get in. It was extremely stressful, and so was the actual registration process itself. I ended up getting all the classes that I wanted, though. I'm taking: Lifestyle management, American Heritage, Book of Mormon, University Honors Writing, and Hawaiian Language. You can probably guess which class I am really excited for (Hawaiian!). However, as of yesterday, there were only THREE STUDENTS in the class, including myself! I'm trying not to worry too much, because the highest amount of students taking that class had been 6... But I'm just worried it will diminish to 1 and the class will be cancelled. So now my new problem is trying to find a replacement for 4 credits. Frustrating.
Mom and Dad recently bought me an AMAZING laptop, on which I am currently making this post. And I also have an equally amazing printer that I get to take along. I just bought a backpack from PacSun yesterday (online) and it should be coming on the 21st.
My biggest feat for the time being is packing. I am having a lot of trouble trying to decide what clothes I need and which ones I can live without. I haven't quite come to my shoes yet, but that will definitely be a major problem when it swings around. I have some office supplies and kitchen supplies and a nice little bedset; I'm equipped with nearly all the basics. I'm just really intimidated and worried that I will forget something essential, but I have no idea what that something could be.
So, I guess that's all I have to say for now. I'll try to post some pictures up, and maybe I'll grace you with a picture of how my packing is going. And maybe I wont. :)