How long have you lived away from Hawaii!

[1stwahine]

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Aloha Blalahs & Sistas,

Anyone live in Las Vegas? Just moved here a few months ago.

Kalei

Blalahs & Sistas...that's cute. Just wanted to welcome you to Hawai'i Threads. I'm going to Las Vegas late March but not to live. I wish I took that chance when I was much younger, I love bright lights and the night life...well, I used to.heheheheheh

[Kalei99]

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Aloha Blalahs & Sistas,

Anyone live in Las Vegas? Just moved here a few months ago.

Kalei

[1stwahine]

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eH! COME BACK HOME!

Drums of the islands is beating in your heart
It's with you where ever where you roam
Wher ever you wander, whenever you're apart
Remember, the DRUMS will lead HOME!

To live and be unhappy is no way to live...

The Islands await your return!

[DannyWilliams]

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I sadly left Hawaii in 1998 and have been dwelling here in California since then...........
I always get asked WHY did you leave paradise?
WELL..... Hawaii will ALWAYS be home to me and its nice and all but deep down for me home life was NOT doin it for me and felt a change was needed and I needed to take that chance and do it........
What was kinda hard was that I left great people that I worked w/ who I knew at least 10 years and seemed like my second family.... I was more to close to my fellow co-workers that what was goin on at home personally.... SIGH...... I miss Hulas (at the old location) it was fun when I was absorbing every moment of it before they had to close up.........
I did briefly make a visit to the islands January 2003 but actually to Maui that is and was on Oahu for a good hour or so......
I dunno if I will trek back again to Oahu but would like to visit Waikiki, Ala Moana Center and Pearlridge Center and see the MANY changes.......

[homesick]

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Eh, no worries, anden. I have lived away from da 'aina longer than I lived on Maui and I tink da 'aina is bred into you and stays with you no matter how long you stay away. It's a good thing that you are now interested in embracing your roots even with all da pilikia in da past. Your 'ohana will always be your 'ohana, through all da good and da bad times.

Malama pono,
Miulang

thanks, that is comforting to hear.

[Miulang]

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My mannerisms are very... western, for lack of a better word, and I guess I just feel that I would be at a loss as far as being able to relate with my peers/cousins... That was certainly the case when I went back for that one summer, years ago. Anyhow, I'm interested in trying to 'plug in' to a Hawaii-based message board, thought it might do me some good.

Eh, no worries, anden. I have lived away from da 'aina longer than I lived on Maui and I tink da 'aina is bred into you and stays with you no matter how long you stay away. It's a good thing that you are now interested in embracing your roots even with all da pilikia in da past. Your 'ohana will always be your 'ohana, through all da good and da bad times.

Malama pono,
Miulang

[homesick]

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Hello all, this is the first thread I read, so I'm going to post here, then head over to the intro board and make another introduction... anyhow... I spent my early childhood on the big island, in hilo and kamuela mostly. I left when I was 9 or 10, and I'm 20 now, so I've been away around a decade (!) and have only been back once when I was 13 or 14, for a summer, on oahu. I really miss my family, but I don't miss the drama (which I guess I only faintly remember, because I was a child and didn't have to deal with it... but if the amount of drama my mom has to deal with over the phone is any indication, there must've been lots when we lived there). I'd like to move back, perhaps sooner than later, but some things have to fall into place if I do. I have to admit, the prospect makes me rather apprehensive, as while I do wish very much to go back, I think that I might not mesh so well as I did as a child. My mannerisms are very... western, for lack of a better word, and I guess I just feel that I would be at a loss as far as being able to relate with my peers/cousins... That was certainly the case when I went back for that one summer, years ago. Anyhow, I'm interested in trying to 'plug in' to a Hawaii-based message board, thought it might do me some good.

[avekm]

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I'm going on 8 years. It's tough but the web makes it small kine a little easier. You guys might want to check out www.homegrownhawaii.com if your looking for friends or family or want to show some high school pride. It's pretty neat. Anyway, hope you guys are all doing alright away from da islands!

[Leimamo]

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I asked how long you've been away at your introduction but I guess I know now.

[Laakea]

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I've been away for 5 years. We make it home at least once a year.

[Ailina]

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Fort Riley, Kansas was out in the middle of nowhere but I loved the slower pace there. It did remind me of home!

I lived at Fort Riley for a while, too. I worked at the bank there on Fort Riley. For me, in the dead of winter, it was the furthest thing from Hawai'i I'd ever experienced--next to Texas. But then, we never met any Hawaiian Club or anything.

I know what you mean about not even wanting to get on the plane. What's worse, one of my best friends barely made it to say goodbye. She talked the attendants into letting her walk back into the plane to hug me goodbye! I can't tell you how bad I wanted to just grab up my family and follow her back into the airport!

[WERUreo]

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It's been just about 11 years since I left Hawai'i to come to Florida for college. I used to go home every summer and Christmas time for a few years, but then, I started only going for Christmas so that I could take summer classes. Then, eventually, I couldn't even go back for summer because I nevah have kala.

Now I have a job here and a fiance that works here. Kind of stuck little bit. We try to go back whenever we can. We went there last summer. That was the first time I'd been back in like three years. Was real good to be back there. We going back there this December to get married and visit da 'ohana.

One of these days, I would love to move back, but I know it's hard. I just have to win the lottery or something first.

[EastCoastTropics]

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I cried big time! Almost didn't wanna go onto the plane! Husband was in the Army and stationed out of Schofield...oldest daughter born at Tripler Army Med Center. I swear I didn't do it on purpose...while packing I accidently threw our plane tix away! Army had re-issue a second set! Fort Riley, Kansas was out in the middle of nowhere but I loved the slower pace there. It did remind me of home!

[Ailina]

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I made 10 years in January. Hard to believe. Did most of us know we'd be gone so long when we stepped on that plane? I SWORE it wouldn't be more than a year.

And did most of us cry like a big baby? I didn't have a window seat on the way back. I'm kinda glad of it, too, because I know I would've made a big scene. I was inconsolable for at least a year.

I cried at the drop of a hat. Every time I'd hear Bob Marley...every time I'd look around and see the FLAT BROWN landscape, or the highway littered with billboards....

You know, my shoes had the red dirt on them forever. I didn't want to throw them away because they still had Hawaiian soil on them. And my Hawai`i drivers license!!! I hung onto that for two years! Then, I got my Louisiana license, and they confiscated it. I begged them to punch a hole in it or something, anything to let me keep it because "it's sentimental," but they had no mercy.

Dad tried to comfort me by taking me to a halau performance in Texas, but it had the opposite effect. I cried the whole time.

Sucks, but.

[fvck3k]

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I'm going on my 6th year away from the islands. We make it back at least once a year. The changes happening in the Kakaako are is cool.