Aloha (As In Goodbye) Danny and Jess

Yes, it's true... On Sunday Danny and Jess left right after the Ecstatic Dance to catch their flight back to Canada. It was a pretty simple goodbye (I've learned to keep them that way as usually you will end up keeping in touch with whoever it is that you're saying goodbye to after), but I think underneath our words there was a sense of just being really grateful for the 2 weeks we had spent together. Sometimes I wonder if I should have been working on an actual farm instead of an eco-hostel, but then I think of the people I have been with while at this place and I couldn't ask to be anywhere else. I find myself really fortunate to be able to have connected so well with people (however short-lived it was) so fast. By the end of their time here I definitely considered Danny to have become a really close friend of mine.

It was fitting though to end with Ecstatic Dance. It was what I think really made us close in the beginning (the fact that we all loved to dance) so having our last moments rhythmically convulsing along the dance floor was kind of the only way to properly say goodbye. And the dance really was as crazy as people had described it. People were clapping their hands and screaming chants. I unfortunately did not have my camera with me, but if you want a visual think of the scene in I think the second Matrix where they are all dancing underground. (I'm not kidding either).

That day kind of had a solemn veil to it after though especially when I found out I had lost my credit card. The next day I had to hitch to this market close to the city to receive money from Western Union.


It was my first time hitching and I am glad I did it because I feel it would have been a bit lame to say I was in Hawaii and never did. I was picked up by some pretty friendly people especially this woman and her mom in their H3 hummer. The longest it took was like 10 minutes so it was not too inconvenient except that I had to hold my thumb out the whole time while carrying groceries.

Yesterday Shae left. I don't think I have gotten to speak about her. (On the left (on the right is Christian))


She's been here for 2 months and is from Kentucky. I really enjoyed her company while here. We would spend some times together chatting and I found her to be really funny. By the end we had some good times laughing over the odd happenings of Hedonisia or when we became really hungry and would indulge in food. With her gone, it really signified the end of the initial group I had met here. But I can't get over how lucky I was to be able to enter this place with such a cohesive group. There are even new people here now...


But I don't know if it will be the same. Fortunately there are people like Lloyd (the next door neighbor), Christian (the manager), and others (Saffron, Sage, their mom, etc.) who will be here for a bit. I've been getting closer to Lloyd and Christian over the past few days. I might even dedicate a whole post to Lloyd because he is such an intesting guy.

I am very happy to have Christian around too. She works in the city so I don't see her too often, but in the evening she is very nice to converse with. She's very into art and music and I painted this with her when I was laying out cardboard.

I don't know if I like it very much, but I was just so happy to be able to let some creative juices out which is rare while working on academics. It did get me excited for Spring Term though when I will have the chance to be doing Glass Beads and Jazz-Age Poetry. This week she might take me to this dump that locals go to to pick up some treasures. She always is coming back with this bag of the coolest clothes from there so I am pretty excited.

On a whole other note though:

Since I have been here I have been attempting to grow facial hair. I thought I would come back and like surprise everyone...


I got that far and then I just decided to go back to the clean shave. It was getting kind of trashy to say the least.

But! I am going to go to the beach with these new people. I figure if I allow the opportunity perhaps we can bond as well as the other group. So until next time and aloha!