Hula Experience

We were very lucky and honored to be invited to visit a hula halau here in Ehime.  I think many people I know would probably disagree with the very concept; so I'm not going to get into detail about how it came to be because I'm afraid someone will read it and be offended or publish an article elsewhere about what a problem it is.  Instead, I'm going to talk about some of the wonderful people I met.

We first met the kumu who bought us dinner and showed us her house and her two dogs.  It was a very quaint lifestyle and she fully loved Hawai'i.  It's always nice to hear what joy my own home brings other people and my Japanese must be getting better because I understood most things she was saying. Plus side, definitely.

We got to actually practice with them, which I think was an interesting experience in itself.

I met a man who is 70 years old and still can dance hula, and I believe he even said he plays rugby.  How many 70 year olds do you know that can do such things?

I met a girl who is 16 and has great potential to speak english and dances like she's from Hawai'i.

I met a woman who came to Aulani this year, and enjoyed it so much she ran to me the second she could and sat and went off about how great it was.  

A child climbed into my lap, that I didn't know.  I felt so much love.

(^_^)