It is March 26th and it seems like a normal day in Hawaii on this beautiful morning. You see the sun rising, the people walking along the streets of Waikiki. It seems to be a normal morning in Hawaii. Well, looking on the screen of my phone tells me something else. 50 new notifications in facebook, a whole bunch of text messages and the date: March 26th 2013. "Happy Birthday"... "Alles Gute"... or "tabalodeht Mobarak". All that means the same, it doesn't matter if it is in English, German or Farsi, because it means that it's my birthday! And not just some random 17th or 34th birthday. I turned 18 and not on an random place. It is in Hawaii!
We sat in the bus and we drove along the streets of Waikiki. The weather was awesome. I really mean it! Blue sky, no singel cloud in the sky, a nice breeze of wind and warm 80°F. Our destination was the Pali Lookout. On the way to the look out, the peeple sang Happy Birthday in English and after that in their own native language. The second one was seriously my favorite! Yeah, I didn't get any single word, but it sounded very awesome and cool. At the look out you had the possibilty to look over Waikiki and since the weather was clear and sunny, the view was incredibely good!
Shooting some pictures and enjoying the view over Waikiki and then hop on the bus to drive to Whole Foods to get some sandwiches. We bought some sandwiches, salalds and drinks to get ready for our picknic at the (name of the beach?)-beach.
The beach was awesome!!!
Why awesome?
Well ... there are couple reasons for that:
The beach is mostly just known by locals, so there are not a whole bunch of tourists around the beach. Since I am live in Michigan, another reason is that a beach which is not covered by snow, is a good beach!
We all arrived there with wide open eyes, open mouths and this special "Oh my god face", which probably all of us had, when we were 4 years old and we saw Santa Clause in our houses, eating the cookies and drinking the milk we put out there. Our Santa Clause consists of white sand, blue warm water and much space for all of us exchange students and staff members!
With our sandwiches, towels and our happy mood, we were more than ready for the water and the beach. Some sunscreen here and some sunscreen there and then running to the ocean as fast as you can! The waves were huge and enjoyable and the weather, was awesome as usual in Hawaii.
We had a wonderful day at the beach and a great picknic. Everybody enjoyed being in the water as a group. We really stuck together, had much fun and I really could tell that we are a sort of an internatinal family. We really like each other and there is not really somebody, who is the outside or something like that. We all just have a good time.
We continute our journey through the island. Stopping at another look out, where you have an amazing view over the ocean, was an awesome idea and we all enjoyed it, while we took pictures and chit chatted around.
On the way back home, to our hotel, we passed the Beverly Hills of Hawaii, with houses with prices not less than a million dollars. Party in one of those houses would be really cool. Since nobody of us as a million on our bank accounts and since we are not allowed to go on private property, we just started doing our own party in the bus. The words happiness and fun were written in in huge and invisible letters in the air of the bus. We had fun and we did it the international way, because we all know how to freak out and just have a good time. Foreigns and americans in one bus. - What did you expect? Sleeping and earbuds in the ears?! ;)
We arrived and had an hour to get ready for our diner. Hard Rock Cafe was our destination while we walked on the streets of Waikiki and the weather was just awesome. I mean, what else, it's Hawaii.
We had diner and some awesome conversations about differences between our countries and how similar we are in some ways. All of the sudden everybody told me to get up and while I did what I was told to do so, standing between tables, I was wondering what was going on. I thought I might have to dance or something. Although I was pretty sure that nobody wanted to see that. Have you seen me dancing lately? - Not a good idea. :D
I stood on the stage of the Hard Rock Cafe with our other birthday boy, Daniel! Sudenly everybody started to sing Happy Birthday. I really mean everybody. The entire Hard Rock Cafe was singing Happy Birthday for me and Daniel. On top of that, we got a huge Sundae Ice Cream cup and a little key chain thingy! It was awesome!
Literally awesome! I mean it! It was one of the best days in my entire live! No kidding, I really enjoyed it and I turned 18 in Hawaii. - The earth's paradise.
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