2018
3rd Grade had some pretty awesome field trips for Emery.
One of them was to the Sugar Cane Museum.
Several stations were set up on the lawn for the kids to participate in and then they got to go inside the museum to learn all about the Sugar Cane industry on Maui.
This is pure molasses on a stick for the kids to try.
They learned how to make a sweet frozen treat from molasses, sugar cane, water, and flavored juice.
They each wrote out the recipe and got to take it home. (I know I have Em's here somewhere.)
Another station is where they made chicken cutouts, attached them to a plastic cup that had a string strung through them. When they got the string wet and pulled on it, it made the sound of chickens fighting. It was a little chicken fighting station.
One of the students at a Maui High School drew this. It is so Good!
A host came out and took the kids on a tour of the museum teaching them along the way. This is a stick of sugar cane.
This is an insane irrigation pipe that went from up by Maliko Gulch down to the cane field. Several irrigation ditches were constructed to help bring the water from the rain forest down to the valley to water the sugar cane.
Outside the window of the museum is the factory.
The factory shut down in 2016.
News articles wrote, "2016 marked an end of an Era in Hawaii after 180 years in the state."
It was actually very sad to see all the fields of tall green stalks of cane disappear and be replaced with short yellow weeds. Fuel for fire, my Greg would say.
The Sugar cane industry is what brought in so many people from Japan, Portugal, China and other neighboring islands. The Hawaiian Pidgin was actually a hybrid of Hawaiian, English, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese. It allowed for the workers to communicate effectively.
This is one of the kimonos that some of the women would wear when out and about.
Chicken fighting was a common entertainment for many on island. (illegal now, of course.)
I was so excited to see this picture of Coach Sochi Sakamoto. He coached the Three Year Swim Club that had hopes of going to the Olympics with a few of his swimmers before it was cancelled due to WWII.
His swimmers learned to swim in the sugar cane ditches down in Puunene.
Here is another photo of workers from the fields.
This was a typical outfit that would be wore in the field by the women.
They would wear so much clothing to protect them selves from the sun and these suckers! They were huge and common in the field. Those are long, fat Centipedes. eek! No thank you! I freak out at the little ones.
I'm actually not sure what this is a picture of, but it looks cool. Maybe it's a smaller replica of something in the factory.
Another outdoor activity was working with syphons. They were learning how they work and making the orange water transfer to the empty bowl and back again. It was how the workers got the water from the rain forest ditches down to the valley for irrigation of the fields.
Another area was a play area. They played games that the kids back then would play. They blew bubbles with sugar cane stalks and walked on stilts made out of cans for example.
The kids checked out all the large tractor equipment and learned all about what life was like back in the beginning days of the Sugar Cane industry.
Emery even learned how to wash clothes on a washboard. It's funny that all the kids were so excited to do this activity. Who knew? Let's bring it back, huh!
Em and I eating lunch together and then, we loaded up and headed back to the school. What a fun day!
We live so close to the school that my kids never ride the bus, except for field trips. And they love it. It's so refreshing to see these kids get so excited about the simplest of things. Really helps me to prioritize what is important and what is not.
Emery had a couple of field trips that were pretty close to each other. One at the beginning of the month and one at the end of the month. This one was up by our house at one of that farms in Makawao, I can't remember the name of it, darn.
I AM that mom that tries to go on all the field trips. And I'm pretty successful. It is so fun to me to see all that my kids are learning and to get to spend a day in their school life.
This field trip was a combination of several school. It was about agriculture, farming and livestock. It was about the Hawaiian islands and how they got everything that's here here. It was about how everything is connected and what we can do to do our part in the cycle.
These dogs were such obedient Sheep herders.
I just love that cute face!
So much that I put two close-ups of her on here. (She is growing up too fast!)
These guys were pretty cool. They talked all about how the canoe brought many things to the Hawaiian islands by explorers.
I felt so bad because I had to leave this field trip early. I wanted to stay and see more, but my arm was hurting me so badly that I needed to leave.
It's really an interesting little story actually.
In my journal I wrote,
"I guess I should write down what's been happening to me. I've been on the couch for three days with an arm so sore and not getting any relief. I'm not really sure how it happened either. I was out in Lahinia at a swim meet and then we went to the beach for some paddle boarding. I was having a great day. I took my first wave in without even getting my hair wet. I caught a ton of waves and of course had several falls, too. But, it was fun. But my arm really started to hurt so I came in to shore. We did the rest of the evening things; Came home, unloaded the car and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, I COULD NOT move my arm. It hurt so bad. We thought it's got to be a pinched nerve or something. So, Greg rubbed it and made it feel a a little better. I iced it and took ibuprofen. Then the next day it was still so sore I didn't go to work. I asked Greg to rub it again that night , but it hurt so so bad that night.
The next day I went to the ER hoping that they'd be able to release the pinched nerve or something. But instead they did an x-ray and sent me home with pain meds and anti-inflammatory pills. I didn't want to take the meds because I had to drive and such. Luckily it was my left arm.
Next I went to Dr. Soma and he gave me a cortisone shot. It didn't do anything, so I went into and had an MRI done. It was so painful and I had to do it twice to get good images. I was freaking myself out too much.
Long story short. I had Calcifitic Tendonitis which means I have calcium deposits on my rotator cuff and that's what causing all the pain. It took a day or two, but the cortisone shot kicked in and I am feeling much better."
It was just the weirdest thing ever. So, so painful.
Well, that was a little bit of a side track, but I need to journal and remember it.
Let's get back to Emery.
She had a great time at her field trips and loves, loves, loves being in 3rd grade!
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