Malama Honua
What does Malama Honua mean? To me, Malama Honua means to take care of this world. To me it’s not going around the whole world fixing everything. It more like going around the world making others aware of this earths problem and how we should take care of it. Malama Honua means going out to communities of people teaching them the ways that our kupuna knew. I haven’t done much in my power to help this world, but I do remember a time where my church and I went out in our community and started to pick up trash because there was so much trash along the roadside and at the beaches. As we were out doing that, people would come out of their houses to give us water and things and we would just share a little about why we were doing what we were doing. Then some of them would send out their kids and some would come themselves to come help. And that’s when I knew I made a little difference in this world.
My hope as a student in this Malama Honua class is to change the world in some little way, by making more aware of the world and how to take care of it, my hope is to learn more about how to help this world, and how I can be leader in my community and maybe outside of that. Aloha Aina is to take care of the land. To me, it means to take care of our older brother, because through the land, we are able to get a lot of things from, like food and more. The way aloha Aina connects with Malama Honua is through the land. If we take care of the land, then the world would improve. If we all take care of our lands the world would become a better place, if they saw the land the way we see the land. If we take care of one source of land, then others will see us taking care of our land, they will be inspired to take care of their lands. It’s sort of like a chain reaction, when one does something good, other people follow and there goes the step in the right direction, the direction of which we create a better world.
The wind I chose to talk about in this section, are the winds of Waianae, known as Kaiaulu. Back at my old school, we had an ukulele class, and the name of that class was Kaiaulu. The reason they named the class this is because we were located out in Waianae and every time they would play, the winds brought a cool breeze and that’s how the class got its name. The rains of Waianae is known as Kehau, I’m not sure if this is correct but this is something I remember being told long time ago. The Mauna of which I live by was said to be known as Kali. The reason a kumu told me the name of the moutain was kali was because there was a giant who use to guard a trail that went through that mountain, and his name was kali. This story could be wrong but that is what I know. I don’t know what the wai is, but I do go to the beach a lot. The beach I go to is Kalanianaole beach park, located in nanakuli. We call this beach “Parks”. This isn’t what you are asking for but I thought to add it because that’s the only water I associate with.