Today I will be taking my tomato plant home. I am very excited, hopefully the plant will be able to strive in my mala that I built a few months ago. I plan on keeping my Tomato plants in the corner of my mala where the most sunlight is. I researched that tomatoes need a lot of sunlight and that is why I chose to put them in the corner. I want to check in on them everyday and make sure that they are getting the right amount of everything that they need. I will water them everyday when I get home at night. Iʻm gonna leave a piece of wood outside and a pencil so I can write everything that I observe such as height and leaves and color. Hopefully I will be able to proceed with my plan.
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This weekend I had to figure out what I was going to choose as my all local meal. I chose to do fish and poi for my meal. I didnʻt really have to plan for this meal because I had poi that my uncle pounded from his loʻi in Haleʻiwa. On Saturday we went to a beach just past Haleʻiwa called Chunʻs. We got there at around 10 o clock and I brought my surfboard, fishing pole, and three prong. I packed some poi in a ziplock bag and threw it in the cooler then went out to go look for some take and hopefully see some iʻa that would be worthy to sashimi. I was around 15 minutes into my dive when a good size papio came into range. I dove down and waited for like 20 seconds and the papio swam in a few circles in front of me then on the fourth turn it came towards me. I had to get a good shot so it wouldʻnt mess up the meat, as it was coming in I reached out my three prong and just as it turned I took my shot. Got um right through the gills. Threw it on my kui and dove for like 2 more hours. I ended up getting 1 more papio, 4 aholehole,2 aweoweo, and 1 heʻe. when I got in I grabbed my knife cleaned all the fish, and grabbed the 2 papio and cut off the meat and made sashimi. I ate that with poi and then went surfing. I used the taco to fish after and didnt catch anything but overall it was a good day.
Our class went on a field trip to Waimanalo I was unable to go. I will write about our preparation to go on this field trip. Kumu Blake told us that this field trip would be at a place called the CTAHR Waimanalo Station. It stands for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. To prepare us for this field trip we learned to pull weeds and we learned more about native plants. We learned about taking care of a mala and maintaining it. We learned how to prepare food from the plants in our mala,
After hearing all the knowledge that Aunty had about Mokauea telling us many moʻolelo and showing us all of the mana that comes from the area I am really excited to go. She was very passionate about what she was teaching us so I was super interested in what she had to say. If I could I would go there every weekend and help them clean out that area. Places like Mokauea just amaze me and pull me in. I hope that on the huakaʻi we can make a big impact on Mokauea and help the people that are trying to protect it. I was just at Mokauea last weekend, it was the finish line for my mothers paddle race in the 6-man waʻa, While I was there the island mauli Ola looked so nice. The weather was perfect and the water was super blue. although the water is kinda pilau over there I would still love to help with whatever I can. I wanna learn all I can about Mokauea.
Well to me there is two types of ways I can think of a Hawaiian scientist and the first one obviously is just a scientist who is Hawaiian or a scientist who studies Hawaiʻi. But if I was to go deeper into what I think a Hawaiian scientist is I believe it is someone who is connected with their surroundings and observes them daily. Someone who is very maʻa to the land and sea and is very knowledgable about Hawaiʻi. For example my Uncles who are lifeguards observe the ocean daily and know everything about the reefs, swells, tides, currents, and people where they work. In order for them to be successful in their jobs they have to know what is going on at all times and can know when something is not going right. I would say that they are Hawaiian scientist. Another example is my Papa he is a very good diver. He has a map of the whole island of Oahu and has locations marked all over the map. These locations are places where either there is very healthy reefs with lots of iʻa or where big piles of iʻa meet during spawning. He knows all the reefs on the north shore like the back of his hand. He taught everything I know about diving. I would describe him as a Hawaiian scientist as well.
Last week hurricane lane gave Oahu a scare as it was on the path of demolishing our island. Luckily it did not Oahu as hard as we thought but the weather did change quite a but. On Wednesday night just before sundown I was on my roof patching up all the holes and the weather was perfect, slight winds and the sunset was amazing. I live on the North Shore of Oahu right on the beach so all inside of my house was glowing from the sunset. That night I camped on the beach in front of my house with my friends. We set up a tent and threw out a few poles hoping to catch some oʻio. While fishing the sky was covered with dark clouds not one star in sight. It began to drizzle a bit but nothing major. At around 3 a.m the sky cleared up and the stars were shining brighter then I have ever seen. It was beautiful we all sat out on the sand and starred at the sky for like 30 minutes. The whole sky was covered in stars. The next day the weather was normal, light winds and barely any clouds but later in the afternoon big grey clouds began to cover the whole sky and that was pretty much the last time I saw a blue sky until Saturday. Although it didnʻt rain too hard the weather was pretty bad. The wind was average and it was freezing cold, The weather didnʻt stop me from going beach though I went everyday and threw net during the day and scooped oama at night. The ocean tides seemed funky during the stormy weather as well, the tide was always high it didn't really get as low as it usually does. But other than that I had a killah few days off from school.
Mālama meaning to care for or protect and Honua meaning World. The simple translation of Mālama Honua is the action of taking care of the World. There are many ways that people can interpret the meaning of Mālama Honua. I believe that Mālama Honua is more than just words it is a lifestyle for some. People who still have the connection with the ʻāina. Nowadays most people spend more time on electronics then interacting with people and the land. We need to find our roots again and be connected with the World, we can do this through Mālama Honua.
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AuthorHaʻaheo Foster-Blomfield from Haleʻiwa Oʻahu. Archives
December 2018
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