Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Hawaii - Final Part

Better late than never. J

My final few days in Hawaii were quite amazing. On Sunday, I had the chance to meet Kiwanians from the island, representing two of the four clubs I believe they have on that one island alone. The UH Manoa Circle K Faculty Advisor was there as well, who was actually a former CKI’er! I told her about Fall Training Conference, and she immediately remembered Sonora from years past. She didn’t believe me when I said we had about 500 people at this year’s event. Haha.

The training of the UH Manoa and HPU Circle K’s went very well. We opened with the club’s self evaluation of the club, and came up with goals they though they could achieve by March. Lt. Governor E.T. and I both understood that they may not be at our District Convention, but we are very positive that they will reach their 20 member peak. In the end, we really hope they turn into the big brother of the HPU Club. How amazing would it be to bring in a new club from both Nevada AND Hawaii in one year?

Though making spam musubi was definitely the food highlight of the weekend, having the chance to meet and bond with the Hawaii CKI clubs was definitely my favorite overall event of the weekend. Here’s a club that is miles and miles away, yet still continues to do the same things we do. Now more than ever, they definitely would love to hear some of your encouragement. We are a family after all. Send your emails of encouragement and motivation to E.T., paradise@cnhcirclek.org. I’m sure he’ll send them off. To help the Hawaii clubs, we are also paying for two of their member’s DCON Registrations, as a token of our support as a District.

The rest of the weekend consisted of shopping at the Ala Moana mall. This place is definitely one of my top new reasons to live in Hawaii. They have every shop you ever wanted. I ended up getting some sauce on my shirt, so I went to the various stores and grabbed some gear. E.T. and I had a particularly fun experience in the Hollister Co. store that shall remain a secret!

After Ala Moana, we tried our hand at taking the bus, which was for the most part … interesting. We passed the time by reading up very cool pick up lines. Here are a few of my favorites:

The only thing your eye’s haven’t told me is your name
Excuse me, I just noticed you noticing me and I just wanted to give you notice that I noticed you too.
Can I take a picture of you, so I can show Santa what I want for Christmas?
Do you have any raisins? [No] How about a date?
I’m sorry, were you talking to me? [No] Well then, please start.

Yeah … so after that, we had a chance to make bargains with some of the merchants along the street, and then headed with E.T. to an amazing party that was being held by a friend of his.

Listen to me when I say this: I want to live in this house. E.T. was like, “Psh, there are plenty like this,” which I believe, but I was just dumbstruck by it. It was an amazing house, but even more amazing was the food. They had potato salad with egg in it, prime steak, I mean prime; Pasta with shrimp, traditional Hawaiian music and just tons of tons of fun. Going immediately to the Honolulu International Airport from there was a bit of a bummer, but hey, what a way to end the weekend.

Hawaii was a lot of fun in the end, but more importantly we had a chance to get to know the entire situation with the clubs there. They are the same just like you and I. They encounter the same recruitment problems, and I think we made great progress in helping that. The Kiwanis clubs understand their need to help as well. I am confident that from this point on you won’t have to worry about anything going wrong in Hawaii. In fact, you might even see a second club.

- Chris. posted by Chris Plasterer at 4:23 PM

 

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