Remember YOUR "small keed time"?
Those were the good old days! YOU were young, innocent, naive and maybe even a little bit "kolohe" (rascal). When you look back, I bet you cannot help but grin, yeah? I bet you can just feel a longing oozing up inside of you for a time when life was much simpler. Wherever you live now, if you grew up in Hawaii, you must remember your "hanabuddah days". Eh, no shame ... we all had "hanabuddah".
Eh … right now get choke stories already online written by Hawaiians and Hawaiians at heart. Most all writers had the unique life experience of growing up in Hawaii. That’s why the site is called ”Hanabuddah Days”.
Enjoy these personal stories.
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Written by Sharon Iwasa Perkins
Dese days I teach kindergarten keikis on da mainland. I live in Pittsburg, California, so I get plenny pilipino, Chinee, popolo an haole students, an everybody in my school know I da Hawaiian teachah. (Dey say I Hawaiian, even though I Japanee, because I ack like I from Hawaii. An wen ouah school have da luau at the end of every year, I always da one cook da food an bring da music. Mos of dem have been to Hawaii an dey bring me back stuff, so I real lucky live heah, I tink. An actually, da
Read more: Bambucha Bugs
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Written by Izzie Kikue
You know... Keiki (children) stay always learning lessons, yeah? We watch dem learn life's lessons and sometimes so funny dat you goddah buss out laughing. And den, uddah times, dey go thru' hahd times and all you can do is geeve dem one big, long
Read more: Da Red Sea
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Written by Kamaka Brown
I think maybe ten. Yeah, ten years old I was at the time. No can remember really good cuz', I was, um ... TEN I told you!! Eh, you gotta pay attention! We was living Lusitana Street, Punchbowl side above the Board of Water Supply. We was
Read more: The Lusitana Sax
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Written by Greg Librando
I was born in Hana, Maui-October 18, 1932. When I was 5 years old my family moved to Kaupo, Maui.
I attended Kaupo School, the first and second grades. It was a large one-room schoolhouse, divided by a partition. There was one teacher whose name
Read more: My Childhood Life in Kaupo
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Written by Byron Bader
I guess I must have been about 8 and my brother 11 when we got into this adventure. The Honolulu zoo didn't have a fence around it in the late 1940's and where the current parking lot is located, there was just a long open red dirt area lined
Read more: The Storm Drain Voyagers
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Written by Mokihana White
On dis day, my friend Judy wen invite me to go wit her 'ohana to dis cabin dey had in Kahuku. I had go wit dem befoah foah da weekend, an we alla time had good fun. Dis weekend stay so hot. Da sun stay beating down on us, so me an Judy wen decide
Read more: Da Watahmelon Kakaroach Keikis
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Written by George K. Cabral
We wuz jus' da local kine keeds from Uleawa. I guess we wuz about 10 or 11 yea's old. I shua you seen us in da evenin' going home wit our homemade kine paipfo boards out of plywood, on da top of the rise by Uleawa beach park near da bathhouse.
Our
Read more: Uleawa Days
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Written by Wayne Yoshida
One time, I was just sitting inside da house, noting to do. Just staring outside da window. I saw da kine big black an yellow wasp flying agains da window screen. Back an fort da wasp was flying, and hitting agains da screen to get outside. Den, da
Read more: Da Spider an Da Wasp
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Written by Izzie Kikue
One time one bunch of us wen go beach (what else get fo do? Go library and study?? I no teenk so) and while all da ress of my friends was having fun bodysurfing, I wen go busy myself catching as much small baby ghost crabs as I could... You know da
Read more: You Like See Crabs?