ALOHA!!!
To make it really American I will start with an OH MY GOSH!!!!! Okay everybody, this day was amazing, in many many ways.
First, because it was the first Hawaiian day that was actually sunny! And second because it was the first day that we would officially spend at a Hawaiian beach.
Im Milagros Couto Perkins, or way easier, Mili, from Argentina. Today I get the opportunity to write the blog, and that is cool because everyone gets to read what an amazing time we are having!
My roommates and me woke up around 7 30, after a good night of sleep and headed down to have breakfast at the surfer restaurant we have attached to our hotel. We enjoyed a super good breakfast there, several options and its fun to seat with your friends and just talk.
After that we all got ready to leave the hotel and jump into the busses! Today the yellow group switched to the other bus so we got a new driver, Jane, instead of Rhonda. They teach us so many words in Hawaiian while we ride, its very hard but funny, you should all see the 40 foreign repeating like parrots after her those impossible words! Its like that fish, the state fish, Humuhumunukunukuapua’a.. ha ha i know right? Impossible.
The first place had lots of history about Hawaii, Pali Lookout, were the king KAMEHAMEHA, the one that united all the Hawaiian islands, won the last battle. The Hawaiians say the place is coursed, cause its there were lots of natives died, and some people believe their spirits still remain there.
After taking some pictures, we left towards the beach we would be spending the day: KAILUA.
The place is paradise. Literally, I’ve never been in such a beautiful water before, the color was awesome. So we arrived and there was a plan, some would stay there just chilling all day and the rest would go Kayaking! Being such a lazy person, that enjoys some leisure time, i decided to stay, so did Ella my Finnish friend Ingvild from Norway and Maite from Germany, also a couple other students stayed too.
Aaaaaall the other students went on kayaks to one of the top 10 beaches in the world. It was a long day for them apparently, they all came tired but really happy, it seemed that the effort was totally worth it!
My roommate Terese told me the best part of rowing was probably when they saw some ”stones” under their kayak that later turned out to be sea turtles!!
From my perspective, this was everything I expect from a Hawaiian sunny day, as they would say here, very ‘hang lose’. We first laid under the sun for a while, and then went into the ocean and out several times. Then we took some pictures
When the kayak troop came back and we all got together at the beach. An hour later we went on the buses and came back ‘home’, at Waikiki.
The bus ride was fun, we had a quiz with prizes about everything we learned on all our days here and then we listened to some music.
Back here we had a while to take a shower and get ready to have dinner at the Hard Rock Café of Honolulu!
So the super cool part of the dinner happened when this waiter started dancing with the song “I got a feeling”, and suddenly all of us were up dancing in the restaurant.
In our table, we were talking about the day and we all agreed that this day is in the top 10 of the best days of our life
I’m having the time of my life!
We’ll keep you posted.
Mili - Argentina
PS. On the 8th its my host moms birthday so I would love to say happy bday to her.
Looks fun! Thanks for posting some pictures. Keep it going.
ReplyDeleteThis trip made the best week of my life. The friends I made here are unreplaceable and I will never forget them. To everyone involved in this trip thank you SO much. I can't thank you enough.
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