Aloha! My name is Christian Kapena Pilialoha and I am from a small town on the westside named Nānākuli. The meaning of Nānākuli means “to look, but donʻt respond when spoken to”, reason being because since water was scarce back then and the residents didnʻt have much to offer, they pretended to be deaf whenever visitors passed by. In Nānākuli, there is 7 mountains; Pu’u’ohulu Uka, Pu’u’ohulu Kai, Pu’uheleakala, Pu’ukanawahua, Mauna Kapu, Palikea, Pu’upoulihale, Pu’umo’opuna, but I choose Pu’ukanawahua because I live right in front of it. I had a hard time finding our winds, rains, and/or wai, especially wai because in ancient times, that is what we lacked and that is actually how we got our name.
Mālama Honua means to take care of the world and to me, itʻs very important that we do so because if we donʻt then we lose apart of ourselves and lose apart of our culture. Back in 7th grade, my father and I along with some of my classmates and their parents did a beach clean up at Ke’ehi Lagoon and I did a beach clean up at Zablans by myself for my personal health project. I felt that giving back to the ʻāina was a must because itʻs like your house, you want it to be nice and neat and when people come to visit, you donʻt want them to say bad things about it. In this class, I hope that I learn more about what it means to be Hawaiian and what it actually means to mālama honua. To most, aloha ‘āina means to love the land, basically it means to love the trees, the animals, the mountains, the people living on the ‘aina, and etc. The similarity between these two are simple, they both give back to the land because when you mālama ‘āina, you do it out of aloha because of what the ‘āina does for us. Like I said earlier, it gives us shelter, gives us life, gives us food, and most importantly, it gives us a place to where we can continue our culture and people. We should be grateful because where would we be if we didnʻt have the ‘āina.
Mālama Honua means to take care of the world and to me, itʻs very important that we do so because if we donʻt then we lose apart of ourselves and lose apart of our culture. Back in 7th grade, my father and I along with some of my classmates and their parents did a beach clean up at Ke’ehi Lagoon and I did a beach clean up at Zablans by myself for my personal health project. I felt that giving back to the ʻāina was a must because itʻs like your house, you want it to be nice and neat and when people come to visit, you donʻt want them to say bad things about it. In this class, I hope that I learn more about what it means to be Hawaiian and what it actually means to mālama honua. To most, aloha ‘āina means to love the land, basically it means to love the trees, the animals, the mountains, the people living on the ‘aina, and etc. The similarity between these two are simple, they both give back to the land because when you mālama ‘āina, you do it out of aloha because of what the ‘āina does for us. Like I said earlier, it gives us shelter, gives us life, gives us food, and most importantly, it gives us a place to where we can continue our culture and people. We should be grateful because where would we be if we didnʻt have the ‘āina.