Friday March 25, 2005
March 24, 2005
I slept in today and was up around 11. My Mom took me to the Japanese Hawaii Cultural Museum which was small but nicely done. There was a lot of stuff about Japanese immigration in Hawaii and the effects of WWII on the Japanese – a lot of stuff I knew but I think museums like this are really important to inform the public at large about what happened in the past, although I wonder how many non-Japanese go to museums like this. We got a book about Japanese internment of Hawaii residents – in the back are my great-grandparents names along with the list of over 400 internees from Hawaii. It’s kind of cool to see their names there, but of course, I wish they weren’t there and they were never interned.
We went to L&L for lunch – I had chicken katsu which was good but nothing special. We then went to Waiola shave ice – the best shave ice place in Hawaii! I had margarita flavored shave ice – what makes their shave ice so good is that the ice is so fine – it’s not chunky or crunchy or anything. Yum! I spent the afternoon on the beach, sunning while thinking about my majors for school and how many particular courses I’d need to take each quarter in order to graduate. I hope it all works out in a nice, easy, unstressful way and that I’m not struggling on until the bitter end. My Mom picked me up and we went to Ala Moana shopping center. The shopping was decent – I got some board shorts from Hawaiian Island Creations, a mickey mouse t-shirt hehe, Reef sandals, and shorts from Old Navy. I picked up a few gifts for friends too – I hope they like ‘em!
We later met up with Uncle Larry and Auntie Lynne for dinner at Geinki Sushi. The sushi isn’t that good, but it’s a fun place because all of the sushi goes around on a conveyer belt and you get to pick what you want. Unfortunately, we were at the end of the line since the belt only goes one way, so we missed a lot of the good sushi; to remedy that we ordered off a menu of what they had.
Later I played my sister in Boggle and beat her in a winner-takes-all last round game with “Laments.” Then some TV and bed.
I heard that they didn’t really do the internment camps in Hawaii, but maybe it wasn’t at as big of an extent
I went to an L&L here and it wasn’t tht great.
Shaved Iced is really good!
they took about 400 people from hawaii and moved them to the mainland for internment camps
the government decided that interning all of the japanese in hawaii would criple the hawaii economy, so they left almost all of them, meaning any military base in hawaii could still be prone to sabotage…..