Aloha from the land of tumbleweed

[achow]

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Aloha and welcome to Hawaii Threads! Hope that you will enjoy your stay here. I also went to Kawananakoa Intermediate School (1988-1989). Keep posting.

Alana

[akrauth]

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Aloha kaua and welcome to the board! I hope you enjoy yourself on here.

[johmbolaya]

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Nice to hear from our former residents but still HAWAIIAN at heart!!!!!!Keep us posted BRADDAH!!!!

I wouldn't have it any other way.

[oggboy]

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Nice to have you join us from the land of the tumbleweed. You no watt it`s all about back in the land of the kalo.....Nice to hear from our former residents but still HAWAIIAN at heart!!!!!!Keep us posted BRADDAH!!!!

[kani-lehua]

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i'm hawaiian, portuguese, english, german and japanese. raised in ewa beach. went to ewa beach elementary only for kindergarten then went to private schools. graduated 1980. have lived in nu'uanu. have a house in kapolei and kailua.

[Lei K]

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Welcome back. Nothing is different from 2006 with me except that I prefer the term CONUS and scratch Kaua'i off and replace that with Ni'ihau. Sometimes family pilikia changes stories but all is fixed when one finds LDS archives and relatives. Otherwise my welcome remains accurate.

Hope you stick around this time.

[johmbolaya]

Aloha...again

I was looking back at my bookmarks, and realized I haven't been here on this website. Upon looking when I last visited, I noticed I haven't been here since March 2006. Almost two years. I was going to do a re-introduction but felt eh, I should just do a re-up. I have to get familiar with people, but as before, I'm here to get in touch with home again, whether there or here on the mainland. I want to share some memories, "talk story", all of that. I started putting together a book on Hawaiian albums, so perhaps some networking can be done too, but that's not the main reason I'm here. Anyway, in case there's one person who wondered "where that Johmbolaya guy went?", well, been busy being not busy, and then some.

Anyway, here I am again, and hopefully for good. Aloha.

[Lei K]

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WELCOME!!!!!!

I Being part Portagee and always wanting to "talk story", and me always being homesick, I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to join this community and hopefully make some new friends and make some connections along the way..

Heh! I can relate.

A bit about me. I am originally from O'ahu, having lived in Ewa Beach and Nu'uanu, but I consider Pauoa my home. I went to Nu'uanu Elementary from 1975-1977, and Royal Elementary from 1977-1982. Went to Kawananakoa Intermediate from 1982-1984, before my mom moved us to the mainland, and it is Washington State where I still reside. My father had died in 1983, and my mom had felt it was time to move on to a new place. Yet even with that time away, I long to be back home, and those week-long vacations aren't enough.

Once again, I can relate. Moved in the late 1980's (parents moved to the mainland trying to make our lives "better") but I consider the Ewa area "home." I also spent much time at my tutu's in Kunia. I come back yearly and when possible more than that. Never feels like enough.

*edit* Oh yeah, I forget to say I went to Ewa Beach Elementary and August Ahrens.

As for family, I still have much ohana back home on my mom's and dad's side.

Relate again. My only family here is my mother and father. My two sisters moved to Colorado when they married but one is actually moving to Hilo sometime in the very near future. My parents plan to move back home (O'ahu, probably Kapolei) to retire in the next 10 years. The only people left on the mainland would be my brother who I don't really get along with well and my sister a few states away. I want to move back. Badly. Everybody on both sides live on da 'aina. Even though I'm married with keiki it makes for some lonely holidays. I miss everyone, I miss their faces. With every year that goes by I realize just how much I miss, time is precious.

I am Hawaiian/Chinese/Portuguese/Filipino/German/Austrian, and had I stayed there for high school, I would've been a Roosevelt High grad.

Cut off your last 3 ethnicities and we da same. I'm a Portuguese/Hawaiian/Chinese mix. My parent's friends like to tease that my mom walked out of da pineapple fields (Kunia camp/Del Monte) and that my father walked out of the sugar fields (He's the one from Ewa area) and they fell in looooove. HA! My mom's Kanaka Maoli side is originally from Kahuku. Also from Moloka'i and Kaua'i. Chinese and the Podagee - O'ahu, Kaua'i and Maui fo' waaay ova 100 years, you know how dat goes.

I would've been a Campbell High grad unless I went to Kamehameha like my mother, which I'd like to think I would have.

[Miulang]

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Post script: Spokane is NOTHING like Seattle. They might as well be in different states. (To someone who has only experienced one or both superficially, perhaps they might seem more similar than they are. That is a forgiveable error, if one is predisposed to forgive ignorance.) Spokane has a lot to offer, but it is different from Seattle in too many ways to list here. Better in many ways, worse in many others. You can hit me offline if you're interested in knowing more about Seattle, Spokane or anywhere else in the PNW. If I don't know, I'll make it up. Heee!

When was the last time you were in Spokane? It's really growing up fast. Plenty of people and companies moving there because it's cheaper than Seattle. Coeur d'Alene, ID is now a suburb of Spokane. It's beautiful country, but it's subject to more extremes in the weather than Seattle. I prefer Skidaddle, but Spokane is not a bad place to live at all. It's no longer the "boonies". There is a political difference between Seattle and Spokane (the East side of the mountain tends to be more conservative), but as Spokane becomes more cosmopolitan, its political attitudes will probably become more liberal, too.

Miulang

[MadAzza]

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We like country and weren't real impressed with Seattle.

Well, duh. If you like country, then obviously you're not going to be "real impressed" by a city. Why even mention that?

Even if you like cities, you might not like Seattle. It's unique in so many ways. You either experience it and "get it" or you don't. I don't waste my time trying to impress people who are determined not to enjoy something different.

I was born and raised a couple of miles from Seattle and have lived in several parts of Washington state, although my First Nation ancestry is from a different part of the country. Seattle is still really cool because of its Indian influences. People there don't make a big deal out of it like they do elsewhere -- it's just a part of the culture. Not a lot of whining, no big deal, but an integral part of local culture -- just like it should be.

All you have to do, if you like "country," is head a few miles east, northeast or southeast, or across the sound, and you probably will find something you like. Or not. <shrug> (Better for the rest of us if you don't. Move along, thank you!) Washington state isn't rural West Virginia isn't rural Texas isn't rural Oregon isn't rural Montana isn't rural Wyoming ... and so on.

Post script: Spokane is NOTHING like Seattle. They might as well be in different states. (To someone who has only experienced one or both superficially, perhaps they might seem more similar than they are. That is a forgiveable error, if one is predisposed to forgive ignorance.) Spokane has a lot to offer, but it is different from Seattle in too many ways to list here. Better in many ways, worse in many others. You can hit me offline if you're interested in knowing more about Seattle, Spokane or anywhere else in the PNW. If I don't know, I'll make it up. Heee!

[johmbolaya]

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Well, we've been thinking of a place to move to after my parents pass on. Fortunately, that'll be a while yet. Washington is a possibility. Next time, we'll make sure to rent a car and get "lost" further inland. We like country and weren't real impressed with Seattle. We did get a kick that there are "Indian reservations" all over the place and each one had a smokeshop that sold real smoked salmon. Love the stuff.

Then you would definitely enjoy the East side of the state. But there's a lot of exploring to do throughout Washington, and of course with each access to Oregon, Idaho, and up to Vancouver, BC. I'm hoping to move to the West, slowly but surely.

[Miulang]

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The middle of the state (around Lake Chelan or Wenatchee or Winthrop) is actually very beautiful and not as "flat" as the southeastern part of the state. Spokane is also very nice. Not as big as Seattle, but with all of the same amenities.

Miulang

[Da Rolling Eye]

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Well, we've been thinking of a place to move to after my parents pass on. Fortunately, that'll be a while yet. Washington is a possibility. Next time, we'll make sure to rent a car and get "lost" further inland. We like country and weren't real impressed with Seattle. We did get a kick that there are "Indian reservations" all over the place and each one had a smokeshop that sold real smoked salmon. Love the stuff.

[johmbolaya]

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Okay you guys...why tumbleweeds? I'd'a thunk it'd be more Southwest. I never saw any tumbleweeds in Washington. Eh, johm, welcome. I did see lots of tumbleweeds in AZ. Enlighten meeee.

Nah, plenny tumbleweeds. Unlike the West side of Washington, the East side is very dry. When there are heavy windstorms, the tumbleweeds are everywhere. Lots of farming around here, and where there's open fields, there's tumbleweed. It's like an old Western movie, and there are some areas that are just like that.

Oh, no talk about food. I hungry already (and it's not even 7am).

[Da Rolling Eye]

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Mahalo Miulang. There's always a reason and this grouchy old fart isn't that old to still be learning something new. I'll avoid the place on my next visit.

Ah, asparagus. Makes my sheeshee smell funny kine.