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.

Saturday

8/30: OKINAWAN FESTIVAL KICKS-OFF PROJECT SEASON!

Participating in the annual Okinawan Festival at Kapiolani Park has become someone of a traditional first service project of the year for Moanalua officers.  This year, 11 officers and 2 senators attended the event, manning the andagi booth from 8-12.  Being a traditional Okinawan dessert, andagi is very popular among fair-goers.  Besides working the front of the booth, others worked behind the scenes filling bags of andagi as soon as they came out of the fryers.  The booth was busy and the weather hot and humid, just like Okinawa this time of the year, but we all ended up with lunch and bags of andagi to take home!
Getting final instructions!

Working the front of the booth!  Andagi anyone?

And working the unglamorous back of the booth!

A pair of Shisa guard the entrance!

The Okinawan festival is always a colorful pageantry!
 
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