One Week Service Project

Saturday March 7, was the 3rd stake one week service project. they broke up all the volunteers into groups ("divide and conquer") to go and give service to the neighbors outside of campus who had suffered from the December flood. when we reached the house the first thing i pick up is a stick which, little to my knowledge, had 2 huge black bees nesting in it, one stung my finger. OUCH! after that we walked to the temple to help clean up the grounds. this lasted until it started to pour buckets of water on us. i met this funny girl from the Caribbean island Grenada, named Salisha. she guessed that i was from Utah just because i have an accent (do Utahns have accents?). during mother natures shower we were invited by a local family to come and eat, more like pig out on all the food they had made for volunteers passing by. Sosina (the mother off all the food) had rice, mixed vegetables, fruit, spam and onions ("the breakfast of champions" according to Hawaiians), pancakes, scrambled eggs, and scrambled egg whites. more food came while we were there like orange chicken, beef and broccoli, chocolate banana bread, and hot chocolate. this is typical Hawaiians for you, lots of food and happy giving people. it still amazes me the role family members play, sons, daughters, nephews, cousins, uncles, aunties everyone is there and everyone is helping and everyone is happy. when we were stuffed we started walking back to campus in the rain to take a hot shower. 

Me, Christina, Hayley, and her friend Rachelle all hopped on the bus and headed to Kaneohe's Winward Mall to see the movie The Confessions of a Shopaholic. we liked the movie a lot! it felt a little sac-religious to go shopping after because the movie was all about kicking the habit,  but went anyways ha. we stopped at Starbucks for some white hot chocolate and carmel apple cider before jumped back on the bus and heading home to Laie. the night ended with Christina and I peeling oranges and throwing the peels off the second floor balcony then watching Gilmore Girls and Lost.