AG COLUMN Vol.1

By AG

MY SECOND HOME TOWN

The editor of PEACE asked me to give them an article, and it's now just before the dead line, I have no other ideas to write about. So I'm gonna write about Hawaii I've just visited with my friend last month.

It's a special place for me because I used to live in Hawaii, and I'm thinking having a guesthouse and get a quiet and easy life there someday. It's my dream. Oh, I remember the smell of Hawaii when I got to the airport! I love the atmosphere. "There're too many Japanese there!" "Everything is so expensive!" some people complain about Hawaii. Well, there sure are so many Japanese in the peak-season, and you may realize some of them are really bad-mannered. Sometimes I get tired of them. That's true. And the prices there are kind of high, but you can find some good and cheap shops if you walk around and look for them. We went record shop-hopping, and found some cheap used-record shops. You can get rare records for $3-$4 each there. When we visited one of them and got some, they gave us 2 more records for free! WHY? Never happened in Japan. My friend S screamed "Majide!?" (means "Are you sure!?") to them in Japanese.

You're also able to get cheap tickets and hotels if you search well enough, so I think it costs only 10 Man to stay there for one week include everything. Good meals and drinks, and the weather! Japanese call the weather in Hawaii "TOKO-NATSU" (means everlasting summer), but there are 4 seasons of course. You can swim in winter, there but it's a bit cold, and in summer the sunlight is excessively strong.

Last time we stayed at a hotel. It was the first time for me to stay at a hotel in Hawaii, and also the first time to go there with a friend who doesn't surf. It was OK. I've surfed everyday, but my friend S was just drunk and slept all day! He announced he would do nothing before the trip, and he did nothing! (S had been extreamly busy before the trip so I understand:from the editor)

But yeah, a jacuzzi at the hotel was one of the best things about our trip. A jacuzzi and beer! Nothing more to ask for, right?

In the daytime, we talked about which club to go to at night, but everyday after the jacuzzi, we just ate and got drunk, made splifs, got stoned and were dead in our beds. We just went to the hotel's bar at midnight at the best, never got to any clubs after all. In my opinion this is the ultimate vacation. It was a recreation. Everything moves slowly, the people are easy, there is an amazing blue sky and ocean, a shower in the evening that cools down the heat of the daytime, a beautiful sunset... Everything is just a luxury.

And I enjoyed that clerks asked me "Hey, are you Hawaian?" so many times when we went shopping. I felt good.

I recommend that all of you to visit Hawaii. It's a really good place! And before you go there, make a visit to kaiko's. Then you may get some worthwile information about Hawaii...

ALOHA!