Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
That mountain in the back is the volcano Mauna Loa. This photo is from a parking lot, I should probably work on the places I take photos at.
OooOoo this is a pretty hibiscus I took a picture of outside of a cute little resturant i ate at. Its the prettiest one I have seen. They are all over but most of them don't have as many colors.
She sells these turtles. They are made out of coconut shells and coconut trees! I think they are quite cool.
This is a pictures of the ladies booth that I work for. We were infront of WalMart for a ridiculous amount of hours one weekend. Thursday, September 6, 2007
Sushi at Rodeos..
This is a picture of Waimea, where the rodeo was it. It doesnt exactly look like Hawaiian paradise now does it?
Now I attempted to take this photo while we were driving down the road. Something I would do. I wanted to try to show how cool the roads are to drive on.
This is the restaurant that I ate that in Waimea with the live band. This cute little lady was hula dancing for us.
I must explain this photo. When I was at the rodeo, they had this truck selling sushi. Where else other than Hawaii could you get sushi at rodeo?
This is a giant praying-mantis that was on my screen inside my house. He was huge and hung out for a day or two. He ended up in the kitchen on the paper towel roll before I let him out. How he got over there I dont know, due to how slow he moves.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Where I live!
These a few pictures of my apartment. They arent the best pictures I just realized that when I posted them. As you can see this isnt the nicest dorm ever, but it works. My oven doesnt cook things either, it burns them. Its really useful....
Roaches Can Fly!
Aloha..
Apparently cockroaches can fly! I had no idea, which makes me feel rather stupid because I think almost all of them have flying capabilities. One flew in while we were eating dinner last night. It flew right into this girls face. They are such lovely little critters.
I got to eat octopus! It had the little tentacle things still on it. It tasted like a kipper snack. I hope you know what a kipper snack is, here is Hawaii most people have no idea. All they do is boil the octopus and salt it. I also ate some raw fish. It was pretty good, it had some nuts and lots of soy sauce on it. I had some corned beef that was out of a can. We put ketchup on it. It didn’t taste bad, but it wasn’t really good either. We ate this cake for dessert called a chantilly cake. I hadn’t ever heard of it, but it’s a chocolate cake with a butter icing and macadamia nuts. It was tasty.
Last Saturday I went to a birthday party for my roommate’s friend. I was the only white person there, a most unusual experience for me. We swam in the ocean at a beach that is full of lava rocks. You can just walk on them, the water is really clear. I swam with big giant sea turtles!! I saw two of them while I was swimming. It was amazing to see them. There are a lot of places on this island where you can spot them. I got to eat a lot of Hawaiian food at the party. I hate some more raw fish, but wasn’t as good as last night. I ate lao lao, which is meat wrapped in a leaf and then steamed. I also tried a pasta salad with different fishes in it.
Last Sunday I went kayaking and sailing in the Hilo Bay. The school has these free trips you can go on during the weekends, and it was with them. We kayaked out to coconut island, which is just a small itty bitty island in the bay. I actually got a little sea sick while I was kayaking. I haven’t ever done that in a body of water full of so much movement. After kayaking the sailing club took us out on little sail boats. I hadn’t ever been sailing before so that was really neat!
I went to the Farmers Market again. They have the coolest fruits there, things I don’t even know how to go about eating. If you go later in the day there everyone will make you deals on everything. I also had my palm read and a short tarot card reading. That was rather fun. I wanted to buy all of the dresses and jewelry they had.
They have a zoo here in Hilo, but I haven’t been yet. The girls were telling me that they have a moose at the zoo! I have never heard of a moose being at the zoo, I just cant get over how funny that is. They don’t have any snakes here, which I enjoy very much. I was surprised to hear that. It is illegal to have them here. My roommate was showing me what plants are native and aliens here, and the majority of them are alien plants. I was shocked. They have the most beautiful flowers here. They have wild plumeria trees all over, the flowers smell so good! My roommate knows a lot about the land and the flowers. She grew up living off the land and her parents just recently got indoor plumbing!
I really like my classes. I actually have the same professor for two classes. The classes are so small, which is really nice. The professors all seem very qualified. My economics professor taught at Weber State for 8 years. Its funny what a small world it is. I don’t think my classes should be too hard this semester. Other than in my US-China relations class I have some issues understanding the professors thick Chinese accent. Im taking geology of the Hawaiian islands class, and I have never seen someone so passionate about rocks.
I don’t really have as many distractions here like I do at home, its strange. I forgot how much I love living on campus though. Not in the dorms they are crappy, but just being close to the campus is so fabulous. It only takes a few minutes to get to class! I can walk the entire campus here in 15-20 minutes. It takes that just between one class at the U or USU. I have little motivation so far to cook a lot. I think its because I don’t have any food to cook. I need go to the grocery store again, but shopping here is such a scary event because I must take out a loan in order to go…
I recently got a job! We will see how it works out though, but it is quite a funny story. This girl I met named Jessica and I were down at the farmers market and went into this ladies booth. We talked for a while and she told us she had seen us at the mall, which was somewhat creepy. Jessica said something about not really having any money to buy anything and the next thing you know the lady asks us if we want a job. On Saturday we went down to the market and worked with her. She is the funniest lady. She is from Tonga, laughs all the time and really loud, and tells dirty jokes. The work wasn’t too bad at all, we just help set up and take down and run the booth, after she pays us in cash. This next weekend she has a booth in front of Wal-Mart and so we will be helping her Friday thru Sunday. I don’t know how consistent it will be yet, but so far it seems to be working out rather well.
We met some people at the Farmer’s Market that we ended up hanging out with Saturday night. They told us there was a rodeo in Waimea (which is on the other side of the Island). The drive to Waimea was so gorgeous! Waimea is amazing also. It was so green, it reminded me a lot of being at home in small towns in Utah. The rodeo was really good; they had events I hadn’t ever seen. They call the cowboys here paniolos. It is still weird to me they have them here in Hawaii. They had the biggest meanest bulls Id ever seen. The farm animals are really big and fat here. After the rodeo we went to this cute restaurant in town that a guy we met the night before plays the ukulele at in a Hawaiian band. It was like Hawaiian bluegrass music. It was really fun and the music was great. We went to this beach afterwards called “69’s,” and watched the sunset while swimming in the ocean. You can see every star in the sky over there because it’s not cloudy all the time like it is here. A guy who was us told me the reason that Hawaii has so many pregnancies is because “every night is a perfect night.” I thought that was super funny. The beach we were at has celebrities come and stay at it all the time. We saw schools of fish jump and apparently we had turtles swimming with us, but I didn’t see them.
I must be adjusting to this warm weather because I am a little cold tonight! I better get to bed. I miss and love you all. I’m sorry this e-mail is so long. I kept adding to it! :)
In Peace, Olivia
Apparently cockroaches can fly! I had no idea, which makes me feel rather stupid because I think almost all of them have flying capabilities. One flew in while we were eating dinner last night. It flew right into this girls face. They are such lovely little critters.
I got to eat octopus! It had the little tentacle things still on it. It tasted like a kipper snack. I hope you know what a kipper snack is, here is Hawaii most people have no idea. All they do is boil the octopus and salt it. I also ate some raw fish. It was pretty good, it had some nuts and lots of soy sauce on it. I had some corned beef that was out of a can. We put ketchup on it. It didn’t taste bad, but it wasn’t really good either. We ate this cake for dessert called a chantilly cake. I hadn’t ever heard of it, but it’s a chocolate cake with a butter icing and macadamia nuts. It was tasty.
Last Saturday I went to a birthday party for my roommate’s friend. I was the only white person there, a most unusual experience for me. We swam in the ocean at a beach that is full of lava rocks. You can just walk on them, the water is really clear. I swam with big giant sea turtles!! I saw two of them while I was swimming. It was amazing to see them. There are a lot of places on this island where you can spot them. I got to eat a lot of Hawaiian food at the party. I hate some more raw fish, but wasn’t as good as last night. I ate lao lao, which is meat wrapped in a leaf and then steamed. I also tried a pasta salad with different fishes in it.
Last Sunday I went kayaking and sailing in the Hilo Bay. The school has these free trips you can go on during the weekends, and it was with them. We kayaked out to coconut island, which is just a small itty bitty island in the bay. I actually got a little sea sick while I was kayaking. I haven’t ever done that in a body of water full of so much movement. After kayaking the sailing club took us out on little sail boats. I hadn’t ever been sailing before so that was really neat!
I went to the Farmers Market again. They have the coolest fruits there, things I don’t even know how to go about eating. If you go later in the day there everyone will make you deals on everything. I also had my palm read and a short tarot card reading. That was rather fun. I wanted to buy all of the dresses and jewelry they had.
They have a zoo here in Hilo, but I haven’t been yet. The girls were telling me that they have a moose at the zoo! I have never heard of a moose being at the zoo, I just cant get over how funny that is. They don’t have any snakes here, which I enjoy very much. I was surprised to hear that. It is illegal to have them here. My roommate was showing me what plants are native and aliens here, and the majority of them are alien plants. I was shocked. They have the most beautiful flowers here. They have wild plumeria trees all over, the flowers smell so good! My roommate knows a lot about the land and the flowers. She grew up living off the land and her parents just recently got indoor plumbing!
I really like my classes. I actually have the same professor for two classes. The classes are so small, which is really nice. The professors all seem very qualified. My economics professor taught at Weber State for 8 years. Its funny what a small world it is. I don’t think my classes should be too hard this semester. Other than in my US-China relations class I have some issues understanding the professors thick Chinese accent. Im taking geology of the Hawaiian islands class, and I have never seen someone so passionate about rocks.
I don’t really have as many distractions here like I do at home, its strange. I forgot how much I love living on campus though. Not in the dorms they are crappy, but just being close to the campus is so fabulous. It only takes a few minutes to get to class! I can walk the entire campus here in 15-20 minutes. It takes that just between one class at the U or USU. I have little motivation so far to cook a lot. I think its because I don’t have any food to cook. I need go to the grocery store again, but shopping here is such a scary event because I must take out a loan in order to go…
I recently got a job! We will see how it works out though, but it is quite a funny story. This girl I met named Jessica and I were down at the farmers market and went into this ladies booth. We talked for a while and she told us she had seen us at the mall, which was somewhat creepy. Jessica said something about not really having any money to buy anything and the next thing you know the lady asks us if we want a job. On Saturday we went down to the market and worked with her. She is the funniest lady. She is from Tonga, laughs all the time and really loud, and tells dirty jokes. The work wasn’t too bad at all, we just help set up and take down and run the booth, after she pays us in cash. This next weekend she has a booth in front of Wal-Mart and so we will be helping her Friday thru Sunday. I don’t know how consistent it will be yet, but so far it seems to be working out rather well.
We met some people at the Farmer’s Market that we ended up hanging out with Saturday night. They told us there was a rodeo in Waimea (which is on the other side of the Island). The drive to Waimea was so gorgeous! Waimea is amazing also. It was so green, it reminded me a lot of being at home in small towns in Utah. The rodeo was really good; they had events I hadn’t ever seen. They call the cowboys here paniolos. It is still weird to me they have them here in Hawaii. They had the biggest meanest bulls Id ever seen. The farm animals are really big and fat here. After the rodeo we went to this cute restaurant in town that a guy we met the night before plays the ukulele at in a Hawaiian band. It was like Hawaiian bluegrass music. It was really fun and the music was great. We went to this beach afterwards called “69’s,” and watched the sunset while swimming in the ocean. You can see every star in the sky over there because it’s not cloudy all the time like it is here. A guy who was us told me the reason that Hawaii has so many pregnancies is because “every night is a perfect night.” I thought that was super funny. The beach we were at has celebrities come and stay at it all the time. We saw schools of fish jump and apparently we had turtles swimming with us, but I didn’t see them.
I must be adjusting to this warm weather because I am a little cold tonight! I better get to bed. I miss and love you all. I’m sorry this e-mail is so long. I kept adding to it! :)
In Peace, Olivia
Friday, August 31, 2007
Aloha Aikane (friend)!
I apologize for not getting an email out sooner, but I think a week into being here is pretty good! It is crazy that today I have been here exactly one week already! Time goes by so quickly. I really like it here so far. It is very different from Utah, everything from the climate to the people to the food you can buy. Speaking of food you can buy, I went to the grocery store and about died at the prices! I’d heard it was expensive but you don’t really understand that until you see it for yourself. I think the bugs will take a bit to get used to. I have bites all over me. Yesterday I went to get into my box of cereal and it was completely infested with Ants, delicious way to start your day. I now store all of my things in ziplock bags that little ants can’t get into. I have yet to see any large roaches in my apartment, but a girl I met has been battling them daily. I did see one outside though, it was over two inches long. They call them 7-47’s here. They can be like 4-5” long. Ew.
I have three roommates all together and share a room with a girl who is never here. She has yet to spend the night here and I don’t mind at all! She is a local Hawaiian from Hilo. In the other room is a girl from Alaska who enjoys partying a lot and I am pretty sure knows every other person on this small campus. Everyday she brings over someone new. On Saturday she threw a party in our apartment and at one point or another just about every person from the campus was here I think. The third girl is from a smaller Hawaiian Island. She said they rely highly on tourists for their income and the man who invented McAfee has a lot of homes there. He buys land for a low price and sells it at a much higher price, which makes it hard for the Hawaiian people to have ownership of their land. It’s a problem all over the islands. She is also Hawaiian, and the two girls both speak Hawaiian fluently. One of them told me they usually use Hawaiian to talk crap about people who cant speak it, which made me feel really good because when I met her she was speaking a lot of Hawaiian with her friend! I have come to discover this strange way they speak Ive heard called chicken scratch. It’s a combo of English, Hawaiian, Pigeon, Japanese and I think whatever else they want to throw in. The pigeon language confuses me also, its just a slang way of talking, which they think you understand. So far a word I learned is choke which means a lot. The dorm isn’t exactly what one would call nice, but it works and it is really close to the campus. It is weird to me that they only have screens on the windows, it makes it really noisy, especially at night.
I have discovered that most of the time, the people here are all very nice. I have had a lot of really good experiences with kindness from others. It is part of the way they live here, and it seems that people try to listen to you. I have met a few people already. I met two girls on the airplane and I see one of them just about everyday. She got a car yesterday, which I think will be super fabulous! We went for a drive yesterday and it was so great to just get off the campus. On Sunday I am going Kayaking in the ocean! At the housing office they have fun things you can sign up to do every weekend. There is also a BBQ on the beach that Saturday I might go to. Next weekend there is a trip to Kona, which is on the other side of the island (its drier and more touristy). On the trip you get to go in a submarine! I haven’t signed up for that yet but I have plans to.
I just had a rather hilarious thing happen. There was this guy that I met in line at the store and for some reason I mentioned I was from Utah and it turns out he is from Utah to. He just transferred from Westminster. Anyway I see this guy 2 or 3 times everyday on campus. It is the strangest thing. He is pretty cute and so I would get rather excited on these encounters. Well.. today I went to the gay pride club meeting.. and guess whos there! Mr. Utah! So Donny… you are right.. they really are all gay. Even though we wont be smooching we are going to dinner and bowling on Friday night. We are going gay bowling. Im not quite sure what that is, but I guess you haven’t bowled until you have gay bowled. Its actually quite crazy, he knows some people that I know, it’s a small world.
One of the girls from the airplane and I have been getting along with really well. We have a loco moco Friday night now. I had no idea what loco moco is but around here it’s extremely popular. It is rice, with a choice of meat (everything from fish to spam, the most common is hamburger), covered in gravy with eggs on top. She loves it, and Im not such a big fan. I don’t really like those ingredients on their own so combining them into a dish rather disturbs me. You can find it all over the place here, even in the school cafeteria.
I just asked my Hawaiian roommate to cook me Spam sometime. I haven’t ever had it. I have always been a little scared to, but I figure she would know how to prepare it the best. She said she ate some today for breakfast. She is currently playing the ukulele, isn’t that cool! Someone below me plays it just about all day long, which I don’t mind too bad, but I would enjoy a break. In this culture you share things, especially food. It is very rude to be eating something and not offer it to other people. Learning all of these new culture rules is going to take a while. I am taking a class called the History of Hawaii. I realized when I got here and was called a Haole (white foreigner from the mainland, which can be used very rudely and can also just be used to describe you) that I don’t understand where the prejudiced we have towards one and other really comes from. In order for me to understand I feel I need to know the history. I had no idea that Hawaii was full of plantations and that we locked up the queen. Being here makes me feel very fortunate to be white, but also ashamed at the same time. I realize I didn’t force their people into slavery, nor did any other white person around here, but my people did. People that I came from did that, and regardless of how accepting we all are we have these issues that go way beyond our time with problems our ancestors created for us that we cant begin to solve. Here in Hawaii there isn’t a majority race, you see all kinds of people from all over the place. Its very refreshing to sit in class and be with people who are so different from you. One reason I find education here to be so empowering is that we all sit in class from different parts of the globe, but its all for a common reason of seeking knowledge to better our lives and communities.
I have been eating loads of Macadamia nuts. I love them! They are so expensive on the mainland but here they are pretty cheap. They grow them right outside of Hilo, Id like to go there. Apparently the nuts aren’t native to the island. They brought them over from Australia back in the forties. My roommate told me once you live here long enough you don’t want to eat them anymore, but for now I will eat as many as I can. The chocolate toffee covered ones are amazing! I went down to the Hilo Farmers Market. It was really cool! Foods that they grow here are really cheap and so tasty! I ate a pineapple that was so good. I also bought fresh lima beans, Id never seen them fresh before. They have really fun dresses and jewelry at the market. I had to refrain from buying it all.
I miss knowing where I am. I really have no idea where I am right now, nor what is around me. I miss everyone a lot. Its different not really knowing anyone here. It is nice though because a lot of people are in the same boat and so people are very friendly and want to meet new people to. I have found some belly dancers here but they meet down town which wouldn’t be too far of a walk, but Id have to walk back in the dark so I won’t do it. I’m going to call the lady and see if maybe someone else comes from campus. I am still looking into getting a bike or a scooter. There is so much I want to see on this island! It is an amazing place, and is so very beautiful. Outside my bedroom window is like a jungle. The dorm I live in is called Hale Ikena which means “room with a view” (some of the rooms have a terrible view so I don’t quite understand the logic there). All night you can hear the crickets and these little frogs. In the morning these loud birds wake me up really early, along with some lovely construction trucks.
I love and miss you!
-Olivia-
I apologize for not getting an email out sooner, but I think a week into being here is pretty good! It is crazy that today I have been here exactly one week already! Time goes by so quickly. I really like it here so far. It is very different from Utah, everything from the climate to the people to the food you can buy. Speaking of food you can buy, I went to the grocery store and about died at the prices! I’d heard it was expensive but you don’t really understand that until you see it for yourself. I think the bugs will take a bit to get used to. I have bites all over me. Yesterday I went to get into my box of cereal and it was completely infested with Ants, delicious way to start your day. I now store all of my things in ziplock bags that little ants can’t get into. I have yet to see any large roaches in my apartment, but a girl I met has been battling them daily. I did see one outside though, it was over two inches long. They call them 7-47’s here. They can be like 4-5” long. Ew.
I have three roommates all together and share a room with a girl who is never here. She has yet to spend the night here and I don’t mind at all! She is a local Hawaiian from Hilo. In the other room is a girl from Alaska who enjoys partying a lot and I am pretty sure knows every other person on this small campus. Everyday she brings over someone new. On Saturday she threw a party in our apartment and at one point or another just about every person from the campus was here I think. The third girl is from a smaller Hawaiian Island. She said they rely highly on tourists for their income and the man who invented McAfee has a lot of homes there. He buys land for a low price and sells it at a much higher price, which makes it hard for the Hawaiian people to have ownership of their land. It’s a problem all over the islands. She is also Hawaiian, and the two girls both speak Hawaiian fluently. One of them told me they usually use Hawaiian to talk crap about people who cant speak it, which made me feel really good because when I met her she was speaking a lot of Hawaiian with her friend! I have come to discover this strange way they speak Ive heard called chicken scratch. It’s a combo of English, Hawaiian, Pigeon, Japanese and I think whatever else they want to throw in. The pigeon language confuses me also, its just a slang way of talking, which they think you understand. So far a word I learned is choke which means a lot. The dorm isn’t exactly what one would call nice, but it works and it is really close to the campus. It is weird to me that they only have screens on the windows, it makes it really noisy, especially at night.
I have discovered that most of the time, the people here are all very nice. I have had a lot of really good experiences with kindness from others. It is part of the way they live here, and it seems that people try to listen to you. I have met a few people already. I met two girls on the airplane and I see one of them just about everyday. She got a car yesterday, which I think will be super fabulous! We went for a drive yesterday and it was so great to just get off the campus. On Sunday I am going Kayaking in the ocean! At the housing office they have fun things you can sign up to do every weekend. There is also a BBQ on the beach that Saturday I might go to. Next weekend there is a trip to Kona, which is on the other side of the island (its drier and more touristy). On the trip you get to go in a submarine! I haven’t signed up for that yet but I have plans to.
I just had a rather hilarious thing happen. There was this guy that I met in line at the store and for some reason I mentioned I was from Utah and it turns out he is from Utah to. He just transferred from Westminster. Anyway I see this guy 2 or 3 times everyday on campus. It is the strangest thing. He is pretty cute and so I would get rather excited on these encounters. Well.. today I went to the gay pride club meeting.. and guess whos there! Mr. Utah! So Donny… you are right.. they really are all gay. Even though we wont be smooching we are going to dinner and bowling on Friday night. We are going gay bowling. Im not quite sure what that is, but I guess you haven’t bowled until you have gay bowled. Its actually quite crazy, he knows some people that I know, it’s a small world.
One of the girls from the airplane and I have been getting along with really well. We have a loco moco Friday night now. I had no idea what loco moco is but around here it’s extremely popular. It is rice, with a choice of meat (everything from fish to spam, the most common is hamburger), covered in gravy with eggs on top. She loves it, and Im not such a big fan. I don’t really like those ingredients on their own so combining them into a dish rather disturbs me. You can find it all over the place here, even in the school cafeteria.
I just asked my Hawaiian roommate to cook me Spam sometime. I haven’t ever had it. I have always been a little scared to, but I figure she would know how to prepare it the best. She said she ate some today for breakfast. She is currently playing the ukulele, isn’t that cool! Someone below me plays it just about all day long, which I don’t mind too bad, but I would enjoy a break. In this culture you share things, especially food. It is very rude to be eating something and not offer it to other people. Learning all of these new culture rules is going to take a while. I am taking a class called the History of Hawaii. I realized when I got here and was called a Haole (white foreigner from the mainland, which can be used very rudely and can also just be used to describe you) that I don’t understand where the prejudiced we have towards one and other really comes from. In order for me to understand I feel I need to know the history. I had no idea that Hawaii was full of plantations and that we locked up the queen. Being here makes me feel very fortunate to be white, but also ashamed at the same time. I realize I didn’t force their people into slavery, nor did any other white person around here, but my people did. People that I came from did that, and regardless of how accepting we all are we have these issues that go way beyond our time with problems our ancestors created for us that we cant begin to solve. Here in Hawaii there isn’t a majority race, you see all kinds of people from all over the place. Its very refreshing to sit in class and be with people who are so different from you. One reason I find education here to be so empowering is that we all sit in class from different parts of the globe, but its all for a common reason of seeking knowledge to better our lives and communities.
I have been eating loads of Macadamia nuts. I love them! They are so expensive on the mainland but here they are pretty cheap. They grow them right outside of Hilo, Id like to go there. Apparently the nuts aren’t native to the island. They brought them over from Australia back in the forties. My roommate told me once you live here long enough you don’t want to eat them anymore, but for now I will eat as many as I can. The chocolate toffee covered ones are amazing! I went down to the Hilo Farmers Market. It was really cool! Foods that they grow here are really cheap and so tasty! I ate a pineapple that was so good. I also bought fresh lima beans, Id never seen them fresh before. They have really fun dresses and jewelry at the market. I had to refrain from buying it all.
I miss knowing where I am. I really have no idea where I am right now, nor what is around me. I miss everyone a lot. Its different not really knowing anyone here. It is nice though because a lot of people are in the same boat and so people are very friendly and want to meet new people to. I have found some belly dancers here but they meet down town which wouldn’t be too far of a walk, but Id have to walk back in the dark so I won’t do it. I’m going to call the lady and see if maybe someone else comes from campus. I am still looking into getting a bike or a scooter. There is so much I want to see on this island! It is an amazing place, and is so very beautiful. Outside my bedroom window is like a jungle. The dorm I live in is called Hale Ikena which means “room with a view” (some of the rooms have a terrible view so I don’t quite understand the logic there). All night you can hear the crickets and these little frogs. In the morning these loud birds wake me up really early, along with some lovely construction trucks.
I love and miss you!
-Olivia-
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Oh how I love the Oakland Airport..
Day one of my journey is going quite well minus the part where I am sitting in the airport and will have to continue to do so for a few more hours, and I have done for the last few. When I booked my ticket the long layover didnt seem like that bad of an idea, but now that Im here it stinks. I decided that spending ten dollars on internet service was entirely worth it, but why the airport doesnt just have free service is beyond me. We pay enough for tickets and they have plenty of money. During my check in I was randomly chosen to have ridiculous security checks, they kindly re-arranged my luggage for me, and then told me they couldnt get it back to how I had it and told me to put it away. I dont understand the point in going through peoples things in the name of security. All it does it make people feel more unsafe. Sitting here in the airport is actually somewhat entertaining. There is a boy who is white but thinks he is black, a couple getting it on just a few seats away, and a lady who had the most amazing sparkly moo moo frock. I am sitting behind the baggage claim, and its strange to me that people pack coolers. Now that I have spent some quality time here behind the turning baggage claim it amazes me how quickly people pick up there bags and disapear. People get really angry that Im sitting here with my bags, and act as if i should move. I think I might talk one of those nice employees who push people around in wheel chairs if I can have a ride. Id tip them nicely. I am hoping the hurricane has decided to leave the big island since I am coming in. It shall be a most interested ride. Ah well I believe that is a enough random rambling for ya'all to read for the moment. I did waste a nice chunk of time on this though.
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