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Nov. 16th, 2003 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
How many times does everyone want to read about how much pain I'm in and how happy I am? Probably not many.
Long story short, the party moved from the Governmental suite on the 3rd floor (lots of veggies and fruit and chocolate! I played my mystery song for a lot of people and no one knew who did it or what it was....) to the ballroom, where we had a presentation from the former mayor of the Big Island and representative of the Office of Hawaiian affairs all about Nationhood of Hawai'i. (More on that later.)
Then after that, more dancing. This is just dancing for fun to live music, and if you know the Hula to it you just get up and dance. If you have a CD and you want to do a Hula to a song they don't know, you play your CD and do your Hula. So I had promised myself that I would just watch because my legs were screaming enough (which is normal and sort of feels good, but my back really doesn't feel right.) But then of course, they had to go and play all these songs to which I knew the Hula. One of them was Maunaleo by Keali'i Reichel. I couldn't remember the whole dance so I followed along some from a coupla girls who knew it really well. Thing about it is that it's Hula noho, which means basically, "on your knees, bitch." LOL! No, it doesn't mean that, but it seemed like that tonight. Hula noho is done on your knees, with your butt right above your heels but not touching them, and often you ka'o during this, which is swaying your hips constantly. So, duh, I wonder what made me think I could do that.
Then we did some Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu and then they went and played the song "Hopoe" live and I went to learn that, then this and that, and then we did Hawaiian Santa, and we each seemed to know a different version, and I could hardly remember the one that I learned. Then the musicians tend to think it's funny to throw in extra music and verses and all of this, so I really messed that one up, but I had to laugh about it. Afterwards, the former mayor and current rep of OHA told me that I was a very joyful dancer. ^_^
Ahhh, good aloha. :D
Long story short, the party moved from the Governmental suite on the 3rd floor (lots of veggies and fruit and chocolate! I played my mystery song for a lot of people and no one knew who did it or what it was....) to the ballroom, where we had a presentation from the former mayor of the Big Island and representative of the Office of Hawaiian affairs all about Nationhood of Hawai'i. (More on that later.)
Then after that, more dancing. This is just dancing for fun to live music, and if you know the Hula to it you just get up and dance. If you have a CD and you want to do a Hula to a song they don't know, you play your CD and do your Hula. So I had promised myself that I would just watch because my legs were screaming enough (which is normal and sort of feels good, but my back really doesn't feel right.) But then of course, they had to go and play all these songs to which I knew the Hula. One of them was Maunaleo by Keali'i Reichel. I couldn't remember the whole dance so I followed along some from a coupla girls who knew it really well. Thing about it is that it's Hula noho, which means basically, "on your knees, bitch." LOL! No, it doesn't mean that, but it seemed like that tonight. Hula noho is done on your knees, with your butt right above your heels but not touching them, and often you ka'o during this, which is swaying your hips constantly. So, duh, I wonder what made me think I could do that.
Then we did some Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu and then they went and played the song "Hopoe" live and I went to learn that, then this and that, and then we did Hawaiian Santa, and we each seemed to know a different version, and I could hardly remember the one that I learned. Then the musicians tend to think it's funny to throw in extra music and verses and all of this, so I really messed that one up, but I had to laugh about it. Afterwards, the former mayor and current rep of OHA told me that I was a very joyful dancer. ^_^
Ahhh, good aloha. :D