We left for NOVA pretty early in the morning. I mean, we met at Aunty's at 5:30am..whew...Ok, I was the only one there that made it at that time, but hey..I was excited! I had to consolidate my bags or stuff: Uli uli's, camera, etc oh and the ever important brownies! We hit the road in Juana's van, a fancy thing that I want now! ha! It has a DVD player (we watched a hula dvd) and the ever important GPS! Shavonn, her mommy, Melissa as well as Aunty, Suzie and I hopped in and we were on the road. Many hilarious stories kept us in tears..the more Suzie talked, the harder it was for Juana to drive!! Juana was still on Hawaii time, too! You go, girl!!
We got turned around a tiny bit but made it to the center...early! What?! What kind of Filipino/Aloha time is that? We grabbed a couple of munchies that the Hosting Halau had laid out for everyone and were greeted with the sweetest smiles and aloha's ever!
Kumu Keith was ready for us and we began our day in prayer. Yes, Jesus we surely needed it, but he already blessed us with this wonderful ride up and awesome weather!
Then Kumu said his hello's and warmed us up...for 40 mintues!!! At one point he had us going in circles, literally. I saw the room spinning faster than I was, praise God he stopped us when he did. I woulda been looking at sky w/ my back flat on the ground!! It was fun warming up to Funky Town (my personal favorite and #1 song I want played at my funeral: hey it'll be a celebration where I'm going! haha!) and other great disco tunes!
We learned some awesome songs, some songs we knew, but, the choreography was fun and new, too! Anyways, the ladies are all a riot to be around and the atmosphere of this was a blessing to all of us...ok, it didn't hurt that there was a good looking man teaching us to hula either-there, I said it! You know what? It turns out that Melissa and Shavonn are related to Kumu Keith! Woohooo!! This was the best first seminar experience ever! Thank you Aunty and thank you Kumu Keith and Halau O 'Aulani! What a blessing you all are! Praise Jesus!
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