Positive things Newcomers bring to Puna

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I brought 2 degrees which cost me the investment of five years of my life and $38,000 in student loans, a teaching license for middle and high school with multiple subject endorsements, an appreciation for teenagers and adolescents, and a deep and abiding passion for teaching the youth of Hawaii. Does that justify my car on the road when I drive to teach, my place in line at KTA when I am buying pie as a reward for my students when they do well, or my appointment to get my flu shot at the doctor's so I stay healthy enough to teach? I think it does, but some will probably still consider me a problem instead of part of the solution. Oh well, no worries. I am here to stay, this is now my home and you are my community, for better or for worse.

Drive safely with much aloha this week, and please watch out for the kids heading off for their first week of school.

Carol