Honolulu

ahhh, I finally made it to Honolulu. The last few weeks were pretty chill. My biggest worry was selling that sweet motorbike, which I managed to do in the 11th hour! Phew! Other than that I just worked my hours and spent time picking the brains of this awesome couple that just came to the farm. Their names are Caban and David. Caban had a doctorate in Psychology but gave it up awhile ago to persue a more...alternative approach to life. She had a business doing deep astrology (she made me a chart before I left), then a natural healing practice. The latest pursuit was natural beekeeping and working at her husband's used bookstore. David, owned a bookstore called Tsunami books in Eugene, OR and was apparently somewhat of a central figure in the natural living/hippie circles there. Caban's last child just became legal so they set out for a life whithout kids and some annonymity, and thus they came to a small farm in Kauai. They both are really into music and healthy living, so it was great to learn from them. One really interesting thing was how she helped keep her bees healthy. She used accutonics, which posits that everything (diseases and health) vibrates on certain frequencies and to heal a sickness in your body you just have to use these tuning forks to change its frequency. I thought that was pretty cool. : )

So! The plan is this: I've gotten a couple of responses to this email I sent out to the Honolulu frisbee mailserve about possible work exchanges here; childcare, errands, help with a business, etc. for a room. One is for this couple who have a property that they're thinking of turning into a natural healing retreat for Japanese visitors. They would need someone to help expand the garden, be a steward of the land, help the husband with his "import" business, possibly cook for the guests. Here's the best part, the accomodations would be this Balinese-style gazeebo room thing. So, it'd be like a pimped out tropical hut. : P I'm hopefully going to go discuss an arangement with them tomorrow. If that doesn't work out, then I got another offer from the Tennis director at the Punahou school to be a live-in nanny for a 16th month old. For those of you who have read Barack Obama's first book, Punahou is his alma mater. So, I would be president by association, I'm pretty sure. Oh, sorry, I mean "presidential candidate," wink wink. So, even if neither of those work out I talked to some girls who have a room for rent. I'm glad to not be hurting for options. As soon as I have a stable residence I'm going to go apply at the Umeke market, a natural foods store. It's should be pretty sweet.

I'm going to go join the local frisbee scene as soon as possible. I'm dropping in on league this Saturday. It should be awesome! : ) Yay, frisbeeeeeeee.

Anyway, hope everyone else's lives are awesome. Good luck at Nationals everybody!