Positive things Newcomers bring to Puna

[Jon]

My Wife....

Transplanted Texan

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[Hotzcatz]

Yup, Big_Island, they do have lovely yard sales! Although they frequently bring things that seem particularly useless in this climate but that are still interesting to look at even if we don't buy them.

There is a certain amusement factor in watching what they do and how they learn to do things in areas they aren't used to. It is fun to feed them interesting things without telling them quite exactly what they are eating first and then explain things such as poi and opihi to them. Generally a waste of poi and opihi, though.

What do folks on the mainland do when they have someone from somewhere else move in?

[aline]

We dont tell them how to open the lobstah and we laugh when at the beginning of winter they all say the snow is so pretty and by the end of winter they have a whole new saying

[Kapohocat]

New ideas. Different recipes. interesting experiences.

[mgeary]

Hope.

Aloha! ;-)

[lostboystoy]

Hope is good.
Diversity, I for one am not moving to hawaii to change things, I look forward to embracing a new way of life, what an adventure. It will be a few years before I will even discuss the politics of the islands.[]its not a newbe's place, If you cant leave the place your leaving behind, then stay where your at.

setting my soul free....

[Dave M]

Carrol stole mine.. But I would say besides money they/we bring Dreams of paradise not lost and destiny untold..

Blessings,
dave

"I'm not as good as I once was.. but I'm as good once, as I ever was" George Straight

[csgray]

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

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Stimulation[:0]

It sure seems like may newcomers are much more stimulating then some of the people that have lived here for a long time.

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