{"id":99787,"date":"2019-03-28T05:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=99787"},"modified":"2019-03-28T05:51:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:51:11","slug":"no-complaining-travel-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=99787","title":{"rendered":"No Complaining:  Travel and Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99789\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-12-at-3.06.57-PM-663x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" \/>\u00a0now that i&#8217;m on a trip, i finally have time to reflect on Seira-chan. \u00a0this was the first day of the month she came to Hawaii. \u00a0 i just met her as we paddled out to Diamond Head. \u00a0i knew she came here to learn about surfing and Hawaii, but in turn, i learned a lot from her too. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99788\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-1.44.39-PM-1-663x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"373\" \/>and this was her very last day of the month she was here. \u00a0 very mature, very polished, very calm, and very confident. \u00a0she was like a whole new surfer girl. \u00a0 it was a treat to see her grow day by day. \u00a0 and now, what i learned from Seira-chan was very important. \u00a0this girl came to Hawaii at the coldest time. \u00a0it was freezing everyday for that whole month. \u00a0and on top of that, the waves were the smallest it can ever get. \u00a0in fact, almost flat at times. \u00a0BUT, never once did she complain. \u00a0while the whole island was complaining about the coldness, the windiness, and the flatness of waves, Seira-chan was out there maximizing each and every moment. \u00a0to me, that was golden. \u00a0to me, that was impressive. \u00a0it made me respect her at a higher level. \u00a0it made me never want to complain anymore. \u00a0and it made me realize how important parenting is. \u00a0you can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t learn those things in school, you learn it when being raised. \u00a0so i really respect Seira-chan&#8217;s Mother and Father for raising such a good girl. \u00a0i hope we can all learn from this because when i was surfing at Ala Moana after all those days after i coached Seira-chan, all i heard was complaints. \u00a0cold, small, windy, and shitty. \u00a0in my mind, i wanted to tell all those surfers to go home. \u00a0i was actually wondering why they were even out there? \u00a0haha&#8230; \u00a0anyway, Seira-chan took the worst, and turned it into the best. \u00a0 that&#8217;s my point. \u00a0and that&#8217;s the way to live a positive life. \u00a0 good girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0now that i&#8217;m on a trip, i finally have time to reflect on Seira-chan. \u00a0this was the first day of the month she came to Hawaii. \u00a0 i just met her as we paddled out to Diamond Head. \u00a0i knew she came here to learn about surfing and Hawaii, but in turn, i learned a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99787","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=99787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}