Lenge siden jeg har skrevet noe nå. For et par uker siden var jeg på field trip med antropologi klassen opp i jungelen. Vi var i en dal der en gruppe som kaller seg "Mālama I Na Ahupua'a" jobber for å bevare naturen der en stor motorvei har ødelagt masse. Vi måtte skrive et slags essay om dette. Og siden jeg har gjort det, så gidder jeg ikke skrive igjen, så jeg bare limer inn det jeg skrev.

Hālawa valley:                           

We took the bus from the downtown campus at 8:00am. There was a gate at the entrance to the valley, and this was locked when we got there. We had to wait for about 30 minutes. That time was spent talking about the valley and the big highway going through it, called H3. One of the teachers told us about how they struggled when building the road. They ran into different problems. The highway was supposed to go somewhere else, but after many demonstrations from the Hawaiian people, they moved it. But not far as they’d hope. The highway still runs through the valley. A group of old women camped in this valley for a long time (from 5 months to 5 years) and tried to prevent the highway from running through there.  Every day they stood in the construction site to try to prevent the construction work. The construction also stopped for a while when the workers claimed to have seen lots of old people on the hills, just staring at them. They believed it to be forefathers of the valley. They refused to come back and work before the road was blessed by a priest. This road is the most expensive road in the US. That is because they had to reroute it three times. They got the permission to build in 1960. Construction started in the late 1980’s, and the highway was finished in 1997. A few people from the Hawaiian community are working to preserve this valley. When we got into the valley we started with a chant. Everyone had to hold hands.  Then we got devided into two groups. One was to work first, and get a tour of the valley after, and the other group was the other way around. I started with the working part. We got instructed to remove rocks from a ”field”. It felt good to contribute. After this we got to go on the tour. This was very interesting. The valley used to house lots of people. It was divided into the single women’s side, the single men’s side, and for couples in the middle. Our guide showed us an old fertility stone. He said that women would touch this and get healthy, and fertile. I touched it. He showed us some big rocks that had human remainings underneath. We saw a big stone that someone had carved in a woman long ago. He showed us the god of war, which was a stone with a face carved in. And then he took us to the birthing stone, where women gave birth long ago. It was probably much more comfortable than lying on the ground.  This was my favorite thing in the valley. We went over to the men’s side, and on the way he pointed to an ”pueo”, owl, up in the mountains. This was not a living owl, but an owl’s face on the mountain. He showed us where the men used to have meetings. This place also had a big stone where they executed people if they had done something wrong. This was also very interessting. I liked this trip allot! I got to see more of the Hawaiian culture, see how passionate some are when it comes to preserving the culture. I got to experience more than I would if I had just read about it. 

Jadda. 

Denne uken har mamma, pappa, Anne og Larsi vært her. Vi har tatt sightseen buss, og vært i pearl harbor. I går leide vi bil, kjørte til en liten by som heter Kailua, og leide oss kajak. Så kjørte vi rundt øya etterpå. 

Jeg tok ikke så mange bilder med mitt kamera, men her er noen :)

Vi padlet ut til en liten øy. 

Pappa å Larsi i kajaken

Anne som står på henda

En strand på nordsiden av øya. Her bør man ikke bade pga mye strømninger og høye bølger.