Lika’s Log

I dance hula in one Haole-ish Halau. So at dis gig last night dis guy comes up to me and says “are you da Kamaaina.” I tellem’ “yeah I da Local da Token Tita.” So happens he was da CHEF of da place. Dey had this birthday luau theme going on.

So bumbye he ask me, “you eat kimchee?” I was like “yeah!” (Do I look like somebody who doesn’t eat kimchee LOL) He said he wen make Kimchee. I was like “shudduup!” Anyway da haole lady standing next to me says, “I thought KimChee is Korean.” I look at her like, you obviously are not familiar with Locals and say “We don’t care who makes it as long as its ono.” Da Chef goes on to explain to da haole lady dat Koreans not da only ones that make Kimchee & other cultures have different forms of kimchee, spices different la dat. For instance Germans & sauerkraut. Da haole lady was all da kine clueless…oooohhh.

Oh, long story short; da Chef made plates to go for all da dancers. Mines da only plate had kimchee! Token Tita so KimChee fo’ME!

So far I only know one dance. Actually I know more, but this one I can do with out going dyslexic and dis one song I’ve practiced da most often.

Dancing in public again brought back good fun memories of small keed time. Dancing at Ewa Carnival. Dancing during high school assemblies, May Day, Aloha Week. Good feelings. So the dancing is a like a long lost connection.

Kinda like “reach out & touch someone” - remember the telephone commercials. You cannot be home (in Hawaii), but you can talk to somebody at home (in Hawaii). Its not da same as being home but at least you still connected yeah.

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