LEADERSHIP: IT'S NOT ABOUT REWARDS; IT'S DOING WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE ACKNOWLEDGES YOU!

2022 MOANALUA HIGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (above) The Moanalua High School Executive Council is made up of fifteen volunteers. VOLUNTEERS! While officers are elected, they choose to run knowing that if they win, there is no physical reward, no letter grade, no incentive other than the pure satisfaction of doing a good job and representing the student body. At times, we achieve great success while at other times, we achieve somewhat less, but it is always a learning process. While we can take away much satisfaction from doing a good job, we can also learn from mistakes and try to better ourselves the next time. And so, at the end of our terms, while we do not earn a credit, a letter grade or even a certificate of achievement proving our accomplishments, we can take away the self-satisfaction in knowing that we did our best for the students, school and community, and that positive experience is something we can really use as contributing adult members of society.

Thursday

2/21: LAST VISIT FOR OGA-KAIYO!

Oga-Kaiyo Principal Masataka Kudo addresses the students!
Namahage demons create a huge noise with their drumming...
...then try to scare students into being GOOD!
A Moanalua host teaches Oga-Kaiyo students a craft!  Two female students are rare!
ALOHA AND SAYONARA!
Like many countries hit hard by a struggling economy, Japan is not unique.  Our regular visitors from Oga-Kaiyo Senior High School made their final visit today because the fishing vessel on which they sail to Hawaii is being decommissioned at the end of the year, and the government is not going to replace it.  Unfortunately, the fishing program will end, and so will their visits.  For the past 12 years, Oga-Kaiyo (f.k.a. Kaiyo-Gijutsu) visited Moanalua, and for the first 9 of those years, they would visit twice; once in October and once in March.  With help from Ashikaga Sensei and (Ms. Cindy) Wong Sensei, this year's final visit was great!  Lunch was provided, and an excellent cultural exchange occurred with Moanalua students teaching a craft, and Oga-Kaiyo students performing a traditional "Namahage"  blessing where demons try to scare young people into being good.  To our friends from Japan, a final "SAYONARA!"
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