Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Mar 30th 2010 - City Tour... Dole Plantation... Haleiwa... Sunset Beach... Polynesian Cultural Center... BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Aloha!

We started our day with a wonderful breakfast. We sat together and shared our meals and it was fun… bacon, eggs, fruits…

It started raining in the morning, but eventually we had a sunny and warm day. Later on, we took the bus to get to know Hawaii even better and our bus driver was a very nice lady, Jane, who told us a lot of the Hawaiian history and taught us some new words in Hawaiian. Dring the tour, we got to know the capitol of Hawaii… we had a break to take pictures in a couple of places that are famous in Hawaii. The tour was amazing and we experienced many interesting things.

After the city tour, we stopped at Dole Plantation and got the famous pineapple whip… and headed to Haleiwa, a surfers’ town for lunch and some time to walk around and explore the city

We had a stop on the beach, Sunset Beach where the famous surf competitions take place and we had some nice pictures

We also went to the Polynesian Cultural Center, we saw 6 different islands’ presentations: “Tonga, Hawaii, Aotearoa, Samoa, Tahiti and Fiji”. We learned the about the culture, and we got to practice the typical dances in Tahiti and Hawaii.

Dinner was outdoors and delicious. That’s the time we get together and talk about everything that happens in our day.

After dinner, it was unbelievable… We went to a show/theater that was a story about a boy from the time he was born to his adult life… picturing him in 6 different moments and in all 6 different islands. The name of the show was “Ha: Breath of Life”.

In the end we watched “Lilo and Stitch” coming back to the hotel and everybody liked… but we are tired, the day was busy!

So far, it is the best trip ever… It feels like we are dreaming

Gabriela De Almeida - Brazil

Thais Pommer - Brazil

Helena Santos - Brazil

Marina Rocha - Brazil





Polynesian Cultural Center - Show: Ha, Breath of life!








Students with the star for Samoa island.


Learning how to play at Aotearoa (New Zealand)


Hula Class at the Polynesian Cultural Center


Tahiti


Jonas Eskilden (Denmark) showing some Tahitian moves


Johan Paalhed (Sweden) and Eike Langer (Germany)


Our monitor Laura at Sunset Beach


Christian Kroh (Germany) with the Hawaiian flag.


Sunset Beach






Marina, Helena and Thais (Brazil) showing the vintage Volkswagen at Haleiwa.



Some Pineapple whip...


... or a lot of whip...


... but it was important to try.


King Kamehameha's statue in front of the court house of Honolulu.


Capitol



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