{"id":11992,"date":"2011-11-21T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2011-11-21T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:10:07","slug":"half-day-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=11992","title":{"rendered":"Half Day Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11993\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nall i have to say is i&#8217;m glad to be back home.  the sun, the clean water, and the fresh air made me feel like i was born again.  leaving hawaii for 17 days made me realize 2 things. first, everything hawaii has to offer.  i can make a list of a 100 things right now.  but to sum it up, the ALOHA is what this place is all about.   i woke up, checked the waves, went to pick up the sato-san husband and wife, and spent a half day course with them.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11994\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsurfed bowls for 3 hours.  totally fun!!  sunny!!  nice!!  a super energetic cute couple who love surfing!  shaka to you too!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11996\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter starving after surfing so long, we went to eat the best poke bowl on the island.  poke and an ice cold coke?  can&#8217;t beat that!!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11995\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni ordered the half spicy tuna and half hawaiian ahi over hot rice.  including a drink, $7 even.  so good!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhat do you do after eating spicy food on a hot hawaiian day?  get a cold waiola shave ice with ice cream on the bottom.  what a way to end up a half day course.<br \/>\nwhile we were eating our shave ice, i told the sato-san couple that today was a perfect day.  surf, poke, and shave ice.  they told me, &#8220;thank you.&#8221;  i said &#8220;no, please don&#8217;t thank me, i meant it was a perfect day for me, yes, me.&#8221;  i didn&#8217;t surf yesterday on purpose because i wanted to feel what they were feeling.  and now i know.  to come off an airplane to such a beautiful place, and to jump into the clear blue ocean is a feeling i can&#8217;t explain.  i grew up in hawaii and it took me all these years to finally figure out what a lucky person i am.  surfing with such nice people, eating good hawaiian food, and to end it with the best shave ice, you couldn&#8217;t ask for a better half day.  now to finish it off, a good afternoon nap was the plan.  but instead, i spent the whole afternoon on my computer.  i&#8217;m happy any which way.<br \/>\nso the answer to the question of the 2 things i realized after traveling for the past 17 days.<br \/>\n1.  the ALOHA spirit we have in hawaii.  i sure missed my friends.<br \/>\n2.  i have the best job in the world!  to be able to do and share everything i love to the japanease makes me happy.   and if i&#8217;m happy, everybody around me is happy.  and if everybody around me is happy, everybody around them is happy.  remember the movie &#8220;PAY IT FORWARD?&#8221;  well, let&#8217;s keep the happiness alive.  pass it around like a wild virus that nobody can cure!<br \/>\nwith that, hope your day was as good as mine.<br \/>\nSURF YOUR DREAM!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>all i have to say is i&#8217;m glad to be back home. the sun, the clean water, and the fresh air made me feel like i was born again. leaving hawaii for 17 days made me realize 2 things. first, everything hawaii has to offer. i can make a list of a 100 things right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[599,600,11,601,602,603,249,239,604,97,605,606],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs","tag-guide","tag-happy","tag-hawaii","tag-oahu","tag-ono-hawaiian","tag-poke-bowl","tag-shave-ice","tag-surf","tag-surf-guide","tag-surfing","tag-waiola","tag-waiola-shave-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}