I am truly grateful to have been able to participate in Malama Honua this year. It has taught me so much and helped me become a better person towards our home. I really enjoyed our interaction learning trips and doing activities hands on instead of just sitting in our classrooms. I learned a lot from water sustainability to how to care for plants. It also taught me to appreciate the little things that we simply take for granted, such as our 'Aina and our home. It taught me to look at things a different way with a greater appreciation. I hope that the next generation can grow up with the 'Aina I did. It may be a little different with modernization happening all around us but hopefully we sustain it enough so they can experience the things we did, and appreciate it just as we did or didn't.
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This experience was very difficult in the problem solving process. It caused our group, especially me to overthink the process to get the highest sitting marshmallow. It helped me to understand that simple thinking helps a lot, instead of complicating the process. It was a good experience and helped me to learn more about my communication skills and the things that I need to work on. It also helped me in my problem solving process and getting everyones insight on certain things, because we all have different views on things.
After taking our learning trip down to Kaiwakilamoku, my knowledge and understanding truly changed towards Makahiki season. I only knew very little and learned a lot. Makahiki season is a time of peace and healing like I said. But it's also a time of worship for the God Lono. It is a time where people could partake in games competing against the Ali'i, and they wouldn't be punished or killed. Makahiki is a time where work still takes place, but learning the work and doing things diligently is of greater value then hard labor. Thats the knowledge that I took away from Makahiki.
My knowledge on Makahiki season is very vague. What I obtained and know about Makahiki season is that its a time of peace and a time of healing. I also know that it is a time of games and bonding between warriors and the people of the land. To me, it truly is a season in which for a couple of months, the war and fighting and hard labor is put at pause, and family time and relationships are meant to be restored.
We may be more responsible for our own food production by really seeing where things come from. Instead of just buying something and eating it, we could take into consideration where it came from, and the health benefits of it. We could also buy local. This will create a productive economy in Hawaii, supporting local farmers who are growing organic foods.
Three takeaways from this first quarter of Malama Honua are to take care of the land, the little things matter, and what we do has a long lasting affect. I learned these things through the countless learning trips around campus and to Mokauea. I learned these things because of what the Aunties told us. A single piece of trash can affect a whole ecosystem, but we don't see it. Picking that little piece up doesn't take much work, and the affect will be dramatic. Taking care of the land in which we associate our everyday life with is such a big deal because we need to preserve it for our kids and there kids and more. It sounds simple but its truly difficult because of the mentality and influences nowadays. The change starts with us and picking up a simple piece of trash can make a big difference to society.
This field trip was very interesting and sentimental to me. It was different from the field trips that I went on before. I noticed that we didn't do as much work as other field trips I went on. There wasn't as much instruction and rules and telling of what we have to do. We really didn't do anything, or much at all. But what we did do was observe. We took the time to actually look and feel our ahupua'a, and take in a deeper understanding of this place that we are a part of. We learned the different names of the islands and how this place came to be. We learned about what happened and what we can do to help. We also learned the Hawaiian history of Mokauea, and how it was so special and unique to the Hawaiian people. This Learning trip was an adventure through history and the future, instead of just working without an understanding of why.
I feel very excited for this learning adventure. Iv'e seen and been by Mokauea but I never been there. Learning about this place in class and understanding the rich history that sits upon these papa of coral gives me pride in our Ahupua'a. I hope to see and experience the different marine life living in this sacred place, and see how to live and sustain accordingly.
This reading really spoke to me. What I got out of it is that we are all Hawaiian. Those who go to Kamehameha Schools all have the same blood in us, but we don't act Hawaiian. We, as students and children of Hawaii, are consumed by other things like technology, instead of being in touch with the simple amazing masterpieces of this land we call home. We take our land for granted, our animals for granted, and our everyday blessings for granted. If we really want to call ourselves Hawaiian, then we need to do Hawaiian things, and simply appreciate and take time to reflect on what we have. We need to truly spread Aloha among one another, then we can truly say we are Hawaiian.
A Hawaiian scientist to me, is someone who observes our land, meaning Hawaii, and acquires his/her knowledge, for the well-being of our natural society. In other words, they use there knowledge and learning to help sustain our lands, and find problems that are leading to the diminishing of certain Hawaiian species. They don't use politics to make their decisions, but use their Hawaiian instinct of Mālama to help our earth strive.
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May 2018
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