2016-2017

Hali'a Aloha

2016-2017

University of
Hawai’i at Hilo

Todd Shumway Jim Mellon

As we look back over a year full of adventure, excitement, and new Nick name: Jim
friends, I want to congratulate all of you for having the courage, ener- Birthday: August/16
gy, and adventurous spirit to leave the comforts of home behind for a E-mail address: [email protected]
year in paradise. Paradise turned out to be a quiet, wet, little town in What’s your occupation: Director of international student Services
the middle of the ocean, but I hope Hilo’s unique environment helped Hobby: Triathlon, Swimming
you improve your English, pick up new skills, make lasting friends, Favorite plcae in the Big island: Two
and learn about yourself. A year spent living abroad will enrich you Steps in Honaunau
for the rest of your life and leave memories that will stay with you like Favorite quote: ‘‘Reality is wrong.
no others. Dreams are for real.’’
‘‘The real voyage of discovery
I speak for all of us at the Center for Global Education and Ex- consists not in seeking new
change in saying we appreciate having been part of this memorable landscapes, but in having new eyes.
experience. Your enthusiasm for your new life in Hilo kept us excited Most memorable experience:
about our work, and the time that we spent with you on excursions, Participating in the Ironman World
in our office, and on campus was always interesting and memorable. Championship triathlon four times in
So I have one request. When you return home, take some of the alo- kona.
ha spirit you found in Hawaii and share it ...
and as you share your aloha, remember us
in Hilo.

Aloha and a hui hou (until we meet again),










Todd Shumway
[email protected]
Director of Global Exchange





JONG LI PARK EUI JOON KIM

Nick name: Joel Nick name: Louis
Birthday: July/25/1990 Birthday: January 19th
E-mail address: [email protected] E-mail address: [email protected]
Hobby: Swimming or Watching movies Home University: Hankuk University of Foreign
Major: Business and Accounting Studies
What you want to do after graduate from college? Hobby: Swimming & playing
Working for Finance Department violin
Your most memorable experience in Hilo: Scuva Major: Economics
diving and lava tracking What do you want to do when
Favorite place on the Big Island : Everywhere you graduate from college?
I want to be a journalist
Favorite quote:-YOLO in Hawaii!
Your most memorable
experience in Hilo: Snorkeling in
Honaunau Bay. Totally different
world!:)
Favorite place on the Big Island:
Honaunau Bay (2 steps)

KANA ISHIKAWA TERI PRYCE

Nick name: Kana Nick name: Tiara
Birthday: 2/23/1996 Birthday: 24th January ‘96
E-mail address: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
What university did you come from?: Home University? Victoria
Kanda University of International Studies University of Wellington, NZ
Hobby: Watching movies Hobby: Hammocking
Major: English Major: Psychology
Most memorable experience in What you want to do after
Hilo: Swam with dolphins graduate? Keep on travelling
Your favorite place on the Big Favorite quote: Say yes and figure
Island : Mauna Kea it out afterwards
Most memorable experience
in Hilo: This is a super hard question! Snorkeling at
James Cook memorial was out of this world. Dolphins
and so many amazing fish. Also every camping trip
I’ve gone on has been super
memorable.
Favorite place on Big Island:
There’s a really amazing
beach spot just down from
Spencer’s Beach Park that I
love. Also going to Carlsmith
when the weather is great.

MARCIA BERNETTE Mc- KAYLAH SWANSON
NULTY BLYTH
Nick name:Kaylah
Nick name: Marcy or “Scottish girl” Birthday: 12 August 1995
Birthday: 15th September 1996 E-mail:
E-mail address: [email protected] kaylah.swanson@outlook.
Home univesity: University of Stirling com
Hobby: Exploring and being Home university: Victoria
outdoors. University of Wellington
Major: Conservation Biology and Hobby: Cross-fit, helping people/volunteering, horse
Management riding
Your plan after graduation: Work for an NGO abroad Major: Psychology
helping to save endangered species. What you want to do when after graduate? starting
Favorite quote: “Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our my own business
brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and
how we came to wake up in it?..” – Richard Dawkins Favorite quote: “To live is the
Most memorable experience in rarest thing in the world. Most
Hilo: people exist, that is all” - Oscar
Zip-lining on my birthday with Wilde
Luis Garcia. Most memorable experience in
Favorite place on the Big Hilo: Staying at the fish pond
Island: If I had to pick one over in Kona.
place, perhaps Waipio valley. Favorite place on the Big Island:
James Cook monument

KURUMI OKAZAKI Mina Kim

Nick name: Kurumi Nick name: Mina
Birthday: 12/13/96 Birthday: 4/17/1994
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
krp. [email protected] Home university: Hankuk University of
Home university: Foreign Studies
Prefectural University of Hiroshima Hobby: Watching American drama,
Hobby: Talking with my friend listening to music, taking a nap,
Major: International culture buying pretty but useless stuff
Plans after graduation: Get a job that Major: English and Business Administration
gives a smile to What do you want to do when you graduate
people from college?
Get a job and we will see
Favorite quote: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where Most memorable experience
there is in Hilo:
no path and leave a trail. Meeting awesome friends
Your most memorable experience in Hilo: Favorite place on Big Island:
Having a lot of wonderful encounters . Manini’owali Beach
Favorite place on the Big Island:
Moonstruck/ Starbucks in the mall/
Hapuna

SOOBING CHOI NATSUMI EBATA

Nick name: SSB Nick name: Natsumi
Birthday: Aug 8th 1994 Birthday: 06/10/1996
E-mail address: [email protected] E-mail address:
Home university: Korea University [email protected]
Hobby: Walking on a sunny day Home university: Rikkyo
Major: Communications/Business University
Hobby: Watching movies
Plans after graduation: Go Major: English and
to graduate school American Literature
Favorite quote: Do not take What you want to do
for granted the love you Plans after graduation:
receive. Travel the world
Favorite quote: all our
What’s your most memorable dreams can come true if we
experience in Hilo? Meeting have the courage to pursue
such amazing & wonderful them-Walt Disney
people.
Where is your favorite place on Most memorable
the Big Island? Mauna Kea & experience: Zip Line
Narnia Favorite place on Big
Island: Volcano National
Park

URARA NISHINAKA HARUKA OZEKI

Nick name: Urara Nick name: Haruka
Birthday: 03/24/1997 Birthday: 6/4/1996
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Home university: Hijiyama Home university: Rikkyo
University University
Hobby: Cooking Hobby: Chill with friends,
Major: Nutritional Management Instagram, fashion
Plans after graduation: Become a Major: Business
registered dietitian Plans after graduation: I wanna get a job which I love
Favorite quote: If you keep on to do
believing, the dream that you Favorite quote: “You can’t connect the dots looking
wish will come true forward; you can only
Most memorable experience connect them looking”
in Hilo: Zip Line Most memorable
Favorite place on the Big experience in Hilo: Great
Island: Hapuna Beach Leaps!
Favorite place on the Big
Island: UH HIlo:)

SAEEUN KIM Summah Hine-Pukohu-Rangi Pareheua

Birthday: 1994 March 6th Seanee Te Kahika-Heemi
E-mail: [email protected]
Home university: Hankuk Birthday: 30 April 1994
University of Foreign Studies E-mail:
Hobby: watching movies, [email protected]
walking around with friends and Home university: Victoria
exploring new places. University of Wellington
Major: English Linguistics Hobby: Explore all things
Plans after graduation: get a job that I living in the ocean and on
can earn money and doing what I like land. I also enjoy
at the same time spontaneous adventures and relaxing at the beach
Favorite quote: Time you enjoy Major: Ecology and Biodiversity, and Geography.
wasting, is not wasted –John Lennon Plans after graduation: Become more involved with my
Most memorable experience in Hilo: community, work on my family’s farm, continue to travel and
From August 15 to December 21, every embrace wherever the next chapter in life leads me.
single moment was memorable to me Favorite quote? Kia mau ki te whenua hei oranga mo te
Favorite place on the Big Island: Reeds iwi – Rotoma No.1
bay and Coconut Island. Such a perfect Most memorable experience in Hilo:
place for taking a rest. I enjoyed eating Chasing waterfalls, exploring the
lunch in Coconut Island. beautiful Narnia with Dane. It is a
magical spot not far from uni.
Favorite place on Big Island: where the sun
shines is, the rain falls, the birds sing, the
fish swim and the people
laugh, talk story and
enjoy one another’s
company.

MANATSU YAMAMOTO NAO IGUCHI

Nick name: Manatsu Nick name: Nao
Birthday: April 14,1996 Birthday: April 23
E-mail: E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected] Home university: Gunma
Home university: Meio Prefectural Women’s University
university, Okinawa, Japan Hobby: Watching movies and
Hobby: outdoor activities comedies.
Major: international culture Major: Linguistics
Plans after graduation: I Plans after graduation: Not
want to work at hotel or be decided my future career yet,
a cabin crew. but I am interested in publisher.
Favorite quote: We are all
different and all wonderful- Favorite quote: For
(Japanese poet) beautiful eyes, look
for the good in
Most memorable others; for beautiful
experience in Hilo: Hula lips, speak only words
lesson at the of kindness. - Audrey
student life center Hepburn
Favorite place on the Most memorable experience in Hilo: I made a lot of
Big Island: 4 miles friends from all over the world.
beach Favorite place on the Big Island: Mauna Kea.

YUI KOMODA JIUN KIM

Nick name: Yui Nick name: Jiun, Uni
Birthday: 10/21/1995 Birthday: Sep. 26
E-mail address: E-mai:
[email protected] [email protected]
Home university: Home university:
Rikkyo University Hankuk University of
Hobby: Listening to Foreign Studies
music Hobby: Taking photos
Major: Tourism Major: English
Plans after graduation: interpretation and translation
Work for a tourist company Plans after graduation: I haven’t decided yet.
Most memorable experience in Hilo: Practice Favorite quote: When you think you’re late, you’re
the ukulele really late. Start now.
Favorite place on the Big Island : Hapuna Most memorable experience in Hilo:
Beach I met host family and many good friends who are
really nice and kind.

Favorite place on the
Big Island: UH Hilo,
where I spent most of
my time and had lots of
experiences.

YI ZHONG FIONA METCALFE

Nick name: Joy Nick name: Fi
Birthday: 21.07.1996 Birthday: 09/28/1995
E-mail address: [email protected] E-mail:
Home university: [email protected]
Communication University Home university:
of China University of Stirling
Your major: Film Directing Hobby:
Gaelic football
Major: Biology
Plans after graduation:
Travel before doing a masters
Favorite quote: Our lives are defined
by opportunities, even the ones we miss - F.Scott
Fitzgerald
Most memorable
experience in Hilo:
Seeing turtles for the first
time at Carlsmith
Favorite place on the Big
Island: Waipio Valley

JESSIE SHERIDAN KOKO HANNO

Nickname: Jessie Nick name: Koko
Birthday: 28th Jume 1996 Birthday: 93/12/5
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Home university: University of Stirling
Hobby: Writing, Reading, Netflix, Home University: Rikkyo University
Photography, Travel, Friends and Family. Hobby: Book and movie
Major: English and History Major: English Literature
What you want to do after graduate: No Favorite quote: Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
idea Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let
Favorite quote: Be a flamingo in a flock of things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like -Lao Tzu
pidgins- Anonymous Most memorable experience in Hilo:
Most memorable experience in Hilo: Larry and Barbara Heintz Everything
welcoming Fiona Metcalfe and I into their home. Favorite place on the
Favorite place in Big Island: Mauna Kea Summit Big Island: Volcano

CHIAKI YOKOYAMA YURI HIRANO

Nick name: Aki Nick name: Yuri
Birthday: 05/19 Birthday: February 22, 1996
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Home university: Prefectural University Home university:
of Hiroshima Kyoto Sangyo University
Hobby: Watching movie Hobby: Listening to Disney music and American
Major: American literature pop music, Painting nails, Watching movies
Plans after graduation: Hotel jobs Major: English
Favorite quote: Death is all we know of Plans after graduation:
heaven and all we need of hell Work as an employee at an educational company
Most memorable experience in Hilo: Favorite quote: Every failure is a stepping stone that leads to
I cannot choose... success.
Favorite place on the Big Island: 4 miles Memorable experience in
beach Hilo:
Eating many kinds of food at
restaurants or cafes
Favorite place on the Big
Island:
Kona

HINANO JINNAI TOMOHO MACHIDA

Nick name: Hinano Nick name: Tomoho
Birthday: August 29th, 1995 Birthday: August 2nd, 1996
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail address:
Home university: Rikkyo University [email protected]
Hobby: Traveling Home university:
Major: Business Gunma Prefectural Women’s
Plans after graduation: get a job. University
Favorite quote: “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Most memorable experience in Hilo: Hobby: Going shopping
Saw sunset at the top of Mauna Kea Major: International communication
Favorite place on the Big Island: Plans after graduation:
Downtown Hilo I am thinking to go to a graduate school.
Favorite quote:
“Bloom where god has planted you.”
Most memorable experience in Hilo:
Conversation with my partner
Favorite place on the Big Island:
Volcanoes National Park

YOYOI SATO RISAKO HIRANUMA

Nick name: Yayoi Birthday: 12/17/1995
Birthday: 3/5 E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail : [email protected] Home university: Rikkyo
Home university: Prefectural University of Hiroshima University
Hobby: Cooking Hobby: Drawing pictures
Major: Linguistics
Plans after graduation: I want to get a husband. Major: English and American Literature
Favorite quote: Love what you Plans after graduation:
do, share it with others. I’d like to find a job which requires to
Most memorable experience in use English
Hilo: Seeing sunset and star at Favorite quote: One good turn deserves
the top of Mauna Kea. another
Favorite place on the Big Island: Most memorable experience in Hilo:
Mauna Kea I joined a few clubs and I met new
people every time. They took me to
many places and gave me a good
opportunity to know Hilo.
Favorite place on the Big Island:
Kona, Hapuna Beach

NAO YAMASAKI ANRI KASUGA

Nick name: Nao Nick name: Anri
Birthday: 4/27/1995 Birthday: 11/23/1994
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail address: [email protected]
Home university: Seinan Gakuin University Home university: Seinan Gakuin university
Hobby: Eating food Hobby: Tennis
Major: Psychology
Plans after graduation: Major: Comuunication
Travel the world Plans after graduation:
Favorite quote: Love the life you I want to fly all over the world
live. Live the life you love. Favorite quote:
Most memorable experience in Life is a box of chocolate
Hilo: Seeing a starry-filled sky in Most memorable experience in Hilo:
Mauna Kea. Joined bubble run with my friends
Favorite place on the Big Island: Favorite place on the Big Island:
Coconut Island Mauna Kea state recreation area

KIM HYUN AH CENTER FOR
GLOBAL
Nick name: Hyunah
Birthday: 1995/5/31 EDUCATION
E-mail address: [email protected] AND
Home university: Hanyang University
Hobby:Biking EXCHANGE
Major: Cultural Anthropology STAFF

What you want to be after
graduate: Happy person
Favorite quote: It is time to be
drunk by Charles P. Baudelaire
Most memorable experience in
Hilo: Jumping off the cliff
Favorite place on the Big Island:
Under the Banyan tree in campus

Kirstie Naone Xiaoting Liu

Email: [email protected] Nickname: Xiaoting I am a happy girl!
Home university: University of Hawaii at Hilo
Major: Kinesiology and Exercise Science/
Communications
Plans after graduation: Going to graduate program
Hobby: Aerial dancing
Favorite Quote:”You miss 100% of the shots you don’t
take.”Wayne Gretzky
Memorable experience: I don’t have a most
memorable moment in Hilo, but I will always cherish
the many friendships I have made here.
Favorite color: green because its a very refreshing
color. :)

Country: China
Birthday: 08/15/1994
E-mail: [email protected]
niversity: University of Hawaii at Hilo
Plans after graduation: I want to be a CPA
Hobby: Watching Movies and playing Guitar
Favorite quote: Believe you are confident enough to
overcome every challenge
What was your most memorable experience in Hilo:
Hapuna Beach

Helio Miguel MISAKI HIRAYAMA

Nickname: Miguel Birthday: 10/8/93
Birthday: July 29 E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected] Home university: University of Hawaii at Hilo
Home university: University of Hawaii at Hilo Hobby: Surfing! Anything by/in the water
Country: Timor-Leste Major: Communication
Major: Communication Plans after graduation: Have a job that I can meet
Plans after graduation: Working in the Publication people from different places/countries
Hobby: Traveling and Taking Pictures Favorite quote: “One day at a time”
Favorite quote: “Dream, Believe and Make it happen.’’ Most memorable experience: probably being
Favorite place in the Big Island: Polulu Valley a global ambassador. I loved visiting schools,
Most Memorable Experience: MC at UH Hilo interacting with kids and sharing my culture with
International Night them.
Favorite place in the Big Island: Honoli’i



By Alan L In Hawaiian mythology, Poli’ahu is one of the four goddesses By Footwarrior
of snow, all enemies of Pele. She was thought to reside on
Mauna Kea (traditional Hawaiian name: Mauna Kea, which if measured from the seafloor is the world's Hāpuna Beach State Recreation Area is a large park and sandy beach on the Big
tallest mountain.
Mauna a Wākea) is a dormant volcano on the Island of Hawaii. The Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel is also located adjacent to the beach. Hāpuna
island of Hawaii. Standing 4,205 m (13,796 ft) The summits of the five volcanoes of Hawaii are (literally, “spring” or “pool” in Hawaiian) is popular with residents and visitors. This is one of a few other
above sea level, its peak is the highest point revered as sacred mountains; and Mauna Kea’s white sand beaches on the west coast of the Big Island. The few others include Kua Bay (Manini’owali
in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Further, because summit, the highest, is the most sacred. For this Beach), Kauna’oa Bay, known as Mauna Kea Beach, and Samuel M. Spencer Beach Park. It was named
the Hawaiian Islands slope so deep into the reason, a kapu (ancient Hawaiian law) restricted the Best Beach in America by Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman, known
sea, Mauna Kea is exceptionally prominent, visitor rights to high-ranking tribal chiefs. as “Dr Beach”, in 1993.
with a dry prominence calculated at 9,330 m Hawaiians associated elements of their
(30,610 ft). It is cupped by the deep Hawaiian natural environment with particular deities. In Kua Bay - Manini’owali Beach
Trough, which has led some Hawaiian mythology, the sky father Wākea
authorities to call it the tallest (as opposed to marries the earth mother Papa, giving birth to Manini’owali Beach at Kua Bay, part of Kekaha
highest) mountain in the world, as measured the Hawaiian Islands. In many of these Kai State Park, is another of the very pretty
from base to peak. genealogical myths, Mauna Kea is portrayed as Hawaii Big Island beaches, with fine white
Ancient Hawaiians living on the slopes of the pair’s first-born son. The summit of Mauna sand that slopes gently to the beautiful clear
Mauna Kea relied on its extensive forests for Kea was seen as the “region of the gods”, a place turquoise water. The swimming here is
food, and quarried the dense volcano-glacial where benevolent spirits reside. Poli’ahu, deity awesome when the ocean is calm, and there
basalts on its flanks for tool production. of snow, also resides there. In Hawaiian, Mauna can be some decent snorkeling along the
With its high altitude, dry environment, and Kea means “white mountain”, a reference to its rocky outcroppings at either end of the beach.
stable airflow, Mauna Kea’s summit is one of summit, which is usually snow-capped in winter.
the best sites in the world for astronomical The mountain’s name has been shortened from © 2012 BigIslandVacation.com
observation, and one of the most it’s original, traditional Hawaiian name: Mauna a
controversial. Wākea (“Mountain of Wākea”). Kaloko-Honokōhau National

Historical Park is a United States National His-
torical Park located in the Kona District on the
Big island of Hawai’i in the U.S. state of Hawai’i.
Kaloko (meaning “the pond” in the Hawaiian
language) is a site of fishponds used in an-
cient Hawaii is on the North end of the park.
Honokōhau means “bay drawing dew” and
refers to the ancient settlement on the south
part of the park.

By W Nowicki

Hina Kīlauea is a currently hyperactive shield volcano in the Hawaiian
Islands, and the most active of the five volcanoes that together
Hina is mostly form the island of Hawai’i, and, perhaps, the most active volcano
described as a very on earth. Kīlauea means “spewing” or “much spreading” in the
attractive, smart, Hawaiian language, referring to its frequent outpouring of lava.
beautiful, determined Historically, the five volcanoes on the island were considered s
young woman pursued by acred by the Hawaiian people, and in Hawaiian mythology
men and other creatures. Kīlauea’s Halemaumau Crater served as the body and home of Pele,
Hina becomes tired of goddess of fire, lightning, wind, and volcanoes.
living in the crowd, flees
to the moon, and eventu-
ally becomes goddess of
it.

By Kyle Hawton

Waiānuenue

Rainbow (Waiānuenue) Falls is a waterfall located in Hilo, Hawaii. It is 80 ft (24 m) tall and almost 100
ft (30 m) in diameter. The falls are part of the Hawai’i State Parks.
Known in the Hawaiian language as Waiānuenue (literally “rainbow water”),the falls flows over a
natural lava cave, the mythological home to Hina, an ancient Hawaiian goddess. Rainbow Falls
derives its name from the fact that, on sunny mornings around 10AM, rainbows can be seen in the
mist thrown up by the waterfall.

Akaka Falls, a 422 feet (129 m) tall waterfall. Akaka in the

Hawaiian language means “A rent, split, chink, separation; to
crack, split, scale”. Local folklore describes a stone here called
Pōhaku a Pele that, when struck by a branch of lehua āpane,
will call the sky to darken and rain to fall. Lehua āpane or ōhia
āpane is an ōhia tree (Metrosideros polymorpha) with dark red
blossoms. Akaka Falls is located on Kolekole Stream. A large
stone in the stream about 70 feet (21 m) upstream of the falls
is called Pōhaku o Kāloa.

Kealakekua Bay is located on the Kona coast of the island

of Hawai’i about 12 miles (19 km) south of Kailua-Kona. Settled
over a thousand years ago, the surrounding area contains many
archeological and historical sites such as religious temples, and
was listed in the National Register of Historic Places listings on the
island of Hawaii in 1973 as the Kealakekua Bay Historical District.
The bay is a marine life conservation district, a popular destination
for kayaking, scuba diving, and snorkeling.

Laura Martinez Steele

Waipio Valley is a valley located in the Hamakua District of the Big
Island of Hawaii. "Waipio" means "curved water" in the Hawaiian
language. It was the capital and permanent residence of many
early Hawaiian ali’i (kings) up until the time of King Umi.

SPECTACULAR SCENERY ON
THE WHITE ROAD HIKE

WHITE ROAD WATER BIG ISLAND WATERFALLS

POLOLU VALLEY





Important Contacts Hali’a Aloha

http://hilo.hawaii.edu University of Hawaii at Hilo
Center for Global Education and Exchange
Center For Global Education and
Exchange

http://hilo.hawaii.edu/exchange
200 West Kawili Street
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Tel. 808.932.7488
Fax. 808.932.7487

E-mail: [email protected]

Hali’a Aloha Edited by Helio Miguel