Day 5

So now I’m caught up. Today I got up and tried to start making breakfast for the guests but Marianna wasn’t sure if there was going to be any so I stopped and started raking. Then Eva tells me to go help make breakfast so I do and I learn a lot form Marianna cuz I’ve been getting a lot of second hand how-to and I hate feeling like I’m not doing things right. Eva is cool but to quote our host mother “oh she drives me crazy, don’t tell me what to do!” Marianna is really an amazing and beautiful person. She is so nurturing and patient. She really like s Jeremiah and me and hugs and wants us to stay a while and is so open. I just haven’t quite gotten to be normal and relaxed around our hosts yet but we’re definitely getting there. Sounds like we have some really cool WWOOFers to live up to. Anyway after I made breakfast I folded laundry picked up passion fruit, did little house cleaning things, then it was our breakfast and me and Jeremiah went and helped reiner put up soffeting. He is a really fun guy, says “oh shit” a lot. People with accents are just so interesting. I pretty much played the chick form home improvement with the big boobs and cut-offs handing the men tools and saying, yeah that looks straight, while doing that I washed windows also. Then me and Jeremiah took the bus to, I don’t know kalikuiaehahela, seriously it all seems like that, and had Mexican food, pretty good, overpriced, no complementary chips and salsa! Then we went to some store and I got flip-flops and candy. Then ice cream, then this really cool bookstore the owner like to talk to us and they have a really good selection there, definitely going back. Now we’re home and I’m doing this. I’ve called and kept in touch and wrote postcards. I don’t know, here are some thoughts and reflections on my time here thus far. Since I am not at all experiencing touristy Hawaii and I’m in a small town, it feels comparable to like Newport or Lincoln city, then again it reminds me of Mexico, kind of run-down and crappy, but that is easy to let go because its so relaxed and warm, happy plants and animals everywhere. I like that its dollars, English, I generally get how things work. The bus stops don’t have signs though you just have to know where they stop and pick up and you wave your arms and hope they stop. They are always five to twenty minutes late, wouldn’t want to work commute: ) It is really fun and different and the work is challenging, but so worth it. I just feel like I’ve settled in well and its already normal, I still don’t know a lot though. Anyway I’ll do this every day before I go to bed I think.