Billy Kinney, Graduate Student, Urban & Regional Planning On July 16th, our group of fourteen departed Hawaiʻi at a very tumultuous time. Our incitement, personal contributions, and attentiveness to each other’s needs and sensitivities would hinge upon our personal ability…
Na Hiwa Kaʻapuni, Undergraduate Student, Hawaiian Studies & Political Science As we near the end of our journey here in Naples, Italy, we begin to reflect on the familiarity of what we have experienced thus far. Although many of us…
Na: Kamaliʻi McShane Padilla, Undergraduate Student, Hawaiian Studies & Ethnic Studies Before starting our huakaʻi to Europe I left this hoʻohiki to my ʻāina and ʻohana at home, “no matter how far I go, I will always return”. No matter…
Na Maluhia Low, undergraduate student, Hawaiian Studies Cobbled stone streets, buildings manicured in history, food cherished as one would their newly born child, a language foreign but pleasant to the ear, and friendly haole[1] greet us daily in Turin,…
Na Kanoelani Pacheco, Graduate Student, Education Aloha nui kākou e nā hoa heluhelu, mahalo for continuing to accompany us in our journey abroad. As we follow in the footsteps of the 18 kānaka ʻōiwi who were strategically selected and encouraged…
Na Cameron Grimm, Graduate Student, Political Science On September 15, 1884, Prince David Kawananakoa boarded the Mariposa for San Francisco as part of the Hawaiian Youths Abroad program (HYA). He joined Thomas P. Cummins at St. Matthew’s Hall, an acclaimed…
By Ihilani Lasconia, UG Student in Ethnic Studies They Could Never Sever Us from Our Piko, Our ʻIewe is the ʻĀina from which Our Ea rises *Written in reference to convictions about being abroad during all thatʻs happening on Mauna…
Na Kamalei Marrotte, undergraduate student, ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi a me ʻIke Hawaiʻi "Na wai hoʻi ka ʻole o ke akamai, he alahele i maʻa i ka hele ʻia e oʻu mau mākua” Who shall discredit knowledge when it is a path well…
Na Kauʻi Martin, undergraduate student, Kinesiology & Pre-Medicine On this lāpule, we start our day with a huakaʻi to Hastings to visit Matthew Makalua’s grave. It was about a 4 and a half hour ride from the University of Exeter.…
Na Kaimana Kawaha, Graduate Student, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi As the third days approaches us here in London, England, we as kanaka far away from our one hānau continue to feel the ʻeha of not being on Maunakea physically standing in solidarity…