We started receiving scholarship for Chase's preschool tuition from Kamehameha this semester. As part of the agreement, we need to complete community service hours in the Hawaiian community. With my busy work schedule and professional development classes I have on the weekends, it has been challenging finding time to do this but today we were able to attend a Keiki O Ka 'Aina Kalo Series workshop. They have been meeting a couple of times a month making poi boards and poi pounders and working in the lo'i (taro patch). Since we just attended this one, we didn't have any materials to work with, so we just learned on the community board the proper way to carve the board and how to pick a pohaku (rock) and start carving that into the correct shape for a poi pounder. The boys played on the playground equipment, while I tried to learn the proper way to carve! My friend Uakea had brought her kids as well. The bottom picture is her son working on carving his stone.
