Malasadas

I donʻt know if Iʻve announced this to everyone, but at Mitsukoshi this week there is a Hawaii fair, and it is basically one room with a stage and a bunch of extremely marked up merchandise from Hawaii.  Today at lunch we decided to go to buy the malasadas that were advertised...it was a very exciting time.    I had slightly higher expectations for the taste of the malasadas, but thatʻs not the point.

The point is that we went and there was a singer and a hula dancer from Tokyo.  They were pretty good, considering the werenʻt from Hawaii.  I heard that the guy dancing was 20 years old and he had been dancing since he was 8.  I mean, did you even know you could have that kind of hula history without living in Hawaii? Without even living in an English speaking country?

What the best part was is that we ran into that kumu hula that I was talking about earlier.  It is such a good feeling to run into people who you know, especially at a Hawaii event because it felt a lot like home.  It felt like turning on to aisle 5 at Longs and seeing your classmate.  I think thatʻs one thing you miss the most when you leave home.

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