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Please keep us up to date as to whether or not this gets you laid.
(It should)
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( "it did" and she hasnt seen the board finished yet)
it is sad, spent 9 years @ Kamehameha, got taught 2 half hour class's a week then by Mrs. Burro's. Dad in his teens wasn't allowed to speak Hawaiian by the Caucasians, nor later, when he worked the docks of Honolulu as a stevedore. Sometimes in the late night when he got off work and was @ The SandBox on Sand Island Road, listening to Gabby Pahinui and only then, it was spoken quietly with the music playing.
My brother, Nathan Kalama, is a kumu hula, musician, entertainer, composer and speaks, fluent Hawaiian. He, is our Ohana's spiritual leader and keeper of our Ohana's past and future. It's simply "chicken skin" when he chants & delivers our entire Ohana's history in Hawaiian at different functions here on Kaua'i or Oahu.
PPK
The Kalama 'ohana is famous. I think it originates on Maui?The middle school in Makawao on Maui is named after Samuel Enoki Kalama.So is a park in Kihei,Maui.The “torch” passes on!
so while a crowd of good for nothing surfbums strut their stuff this week in waikiki in honor of the "man" (too bad we don't honor the rest of his great talented family) this little story in the last two pages of this morning's honolulu star-bulletin brought a tear to my eye like it has all the others they've affected from across the sidelines and made me believe there is hope for the future with what a few unrecognized champions are doing behind the scenes. This seems somehow way more important than some hotel owner branded driven "Oceanfest". But that's been our destiny since the first ships arrived from far away..
Today I'm just a little prouder to be Hawaiian.
Mahalo for the values "Kula Kalapuni 'O Anuenue"
Ke Ala Hou!
http://www.starbulletin.com/sports/sportsnews/20090828_further_review.html