Aloha Visting Students

Now appearing on campus: new students with skin so “winter white” that without proper eye protection it may cause permanent damage to your retinas.

I jest.

These are students here for a summer term and leave come fall to make room for returning full-time students. I’ve observed they’re here to explore Hawaii and party. To some studying is a priority, but not to the majority.

I should know, I’ve been able to con many into dropping their studies to come jump off of Waimea Bay Rock or take a trip to the pristine beaches of Lanikai.

What is the most fun is talking to them about how different Hawaii is from the Hawaii they imagined. I’m still not over how different it is from the picture-perfect images we’re feed on travel brochures and movies.

The thing I like most about vising students is their energy and desire to explore. My biggest complaint with regular students is they confine themselves to Laie and only go out to get something to eat at the vastly overrated Cheesecake Factory or catch a movie at Windward Mall.

It’ll be nice to have some new partners-in-crime.

May 5th, 2005 in Journal |