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Jacie Umemoto <br />8th grade <br />Volcano School of Arts & Sciences <br />Volcano, Hawaii 96785 <br />February 7, 2019 <br />Charter Commission <br />Hilo , HI 96720 <br />Regarding 2 % land funds program <br />Aloha Commission. My name is Jacie and I live in Pahala. I play softball, <br />baseball, basketball, and I swim. Kawa means so much to me as bad as the <br />wind blows sand in my eyes. Kawa is still fun even though we don't go as <br />much, we enjoy every single moment at Kawa. We chant before we walk in <br />and hold hands when we leave and sing oli mahalo for thanking the 'aina <br />and help out the little kids. Working on clearing out some of the plants we <br />don't need, we lop it down and fly it in one big pile and Uncle Kaui or Uncle <br />Duane throws it away later at the rubbish dump. When we're finished, <br />some people water the plants so we can plant them again inside the <br />ground so we can keep the plants and not lose them. <br />At Kawa we are really lucky to find animals we've never seen. For <br />example, we've seen about 5 scorpions. We didn't kill it because it was a <br />living thing and didn't do anything to bother us. Kawa has a really cool <br />breeze and the sun is out most of the time we work on gathering rocks and <br />pulling out the trees we don't need. We always work by the ocean, <br />normally for about an hour. We eat lunch and go have our free time, then, <br />when we finish, we change our clothes and sing oli mahalo in a circle. Then <br />we have the really bad walk back 'cause it's very hot walking back. When <br />you don't think about how far you are, the better the walk is and it seems <br />to take less time. It would be so amazing if we could do that for the next <br />generation and the next, so we can teach the new ones what we did when <br />Comm. No. 21.152 <br />