Hawaii..

Okay, after a full work of make-up work and missed tests and quizzes I finally have time to write about Hawaii. Three words: IT WAS AMAZING!.. I absolutely loved the week we spent there and I love Hawaii. The trip was organized by “Explore America” (for other exchange students: I can just recommend them!!) and we were about 96 exchange students from different countries.

Norway, Germany, China, Japan, Italy, France, Spain, Jaman, Thailand, Russia, Czech Republic, … most of them were from Norway, so I was with 3 norwegian girls in the hotel room. Although we sometimes had little fights when two were trying to sleep and two could not stop laughing, it was a lot of fun!

The whole time we drove around with two big busses and visited basically the whole Island. We went to the north shore, where the big piplines are ( waves can get up to 40 feet ~ 13 meters high), we went snorkeling at the most beautiful beach I have ever seen (Hanauma Bay), we went surfing at Waikiki Beach, we went hiking on Diamond Head (760 feet ~ 232 m high), we visited the Pearl Harbor Memorial, which was really impressing or we just hung out at the beach or went shopping in Honolulu.

It was always hot, although I thought, it was kind a cold at night and in the morning and a lot of us got sunburned. Hawaii is really expensive though and we all spent a lot of money on souvenirs, clothes and food. We also learned a little bit hawaiian! “Aloha” means “Hello”, “Goodbye” and “Love”. “Mahalo” means” Thank you”. “Ohana” means “family” and “humuhumunukunukuapuaa” is the name of the state fish and I have to say that it took us a little bit until we could say the name.

Every night we went to a different place to have dinner. It was either a picnic with pizza, Senior Frogs, Planet Hollywood, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Hard Rock Café or other cool places. It was so much fun being with all these exchange student in Hawaii and just hang out there and have a good time.
Everybody is “hanging loose” and time just flies by. It was an amazing week and it was really hard to say “goodbye” in the end, but we all promised each other to visit soon! The song we had to learn in the beginning of the trip was like this:

Just hang loose just have fun,
Sipping on a drink lying in the sun,
don’t try to fight it there ain’t no use,
’cause when you’re in Hawaii you should just hang loose.

ALOHA!

(most of the pictures are either on facebook or schuelervz)

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