the 2015 Kaimuki Middle School band is going make history. it is the first time students from a middle school in hawaii have been invited to perform at the prestigious Carnegie Hall! it’s an honor for these kids as most of their dreams as musicians is going to come true. of over the thousand students in the music program at KMS, 70 were chosen for this once of a lifetime opportunity. congratulations girls and boys!

i know some of the girls and they are so excited! New York! Harvard! Yale! Boston! Carnegie Hall! here we come! and i’m looking forward to see this once in a lifetime performance myself. come monday march 9th, i’m there! i can’t wait!
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The following students will be performing at Carnegie Hall:
FLUTE
Altona, Brandey
Costa, Jolie
Fukunaga, Mia
Horita, Lauren
Griffiths, Sydney
Kashiwabara, Sedona
Matsushita, Hoku
Terawaki-Doble, Danielle
TENOR SAXOPHONE
Ah Nee, Isaac
Tran, Justin
BARI SAXOPHONE
Nishida, Evan
TRUMPET
De Spain, Maya
Haraguchi, Riki
Jim, Matthew
Kimura, David
Lew, Jayci
Nakamura, Jake
Nishikura, Kazuki
Ozaki, Kira
Romero, Joshua
Souphilavong, Aiya
Yoshimi, Jodi
FRENCH HORN
Chang, Kai Le
Higashi, Stephen
Lau, Anthony
Onishi, Cody
EUPHONIUM
Goya, Reid
Greenhow, Jake
Murata, Cuyler
Nguyen, Justin
TROMBONE
Dobashi, Trevyn
Gresham, Andrew
Lock, Carter
Sakuda, Hailey
TUBA
Hew, Rimington
Kobayashi, Jack
Sasaoka, Brenton
Shigeta, Kaisei
KOTO
Fujio, Derek
PERCUSSION
Asamoto, Bode
Lee, Joshua
Matsumoto, Sho
Mendenhall, Toshio
Tan, Kelly
Thompson, Robert
Tomasu, Adrian
Vien, Dimitri
Wong, Cassidy

taking my own surfboard was the best decision ever! it cost $150 one way and was such a hassle, but riding my own magic board made my trip even better.

my $5 lunch.

fresh squeezed lemonade for $1.

and chicken takos for $4. i loved it!

and i also loved surfing till sunset and walking back to my hotel. right in front had some music, lights, surfers, dj, and $1.50 beers.

gosh, just on this trip, i met people from germany, guatemala, canada, california, florida, houston, japan, and so many other places. all backpackers, and all good people.

every night there was some party going on somewhere. just people from all over the world having fun together. i was too tired every night so while the town was partying, i was sleeping.

cool lamp huh?

there was a guy doing fire dances around town. he would even walk into the bar and do this. it was so crazy!

when i read the travel advisories for el salvador, it all said “never walk alone at night.” well, i walked alone and felt very safe in this little town. but heard some crazy stories about other towns. guns, drugs, gangs, kidnapping. OMG!
anyway, happy to be back in america. now it’s the long road home. have a wonderful day!

OMG! Stuck in Atlanta. So what? Let’s go eat! Crab. Lobster. Shrimp. Oysters. Salad. Beer. Cheers.