Reflection week 2

This week was the most brutal of the week I had before. After all the work I had added up and kumu told us that the amount of knowledge we know no and the quiz we are going to have on Friday. It is a whole quarters worth. At first I was like no kumu you must be crazy, this has to be a joke, it can’t be true. The hard reality was all of it he said was very true. The day we came back we had a quiz. It’s not like a didn’t study or anything (which I didn’t) but I got an F. Of course I didn’t look on the bored cause it would have said what we were supposed to study. Then I tried studying the other days but it didn’t help. Finally I got to get average grades on my quizzes and it started to get easier, but the olelo Hawaii was not as easy. It felt like we learned I knew pepeke or something to do with a pepeke every day. It started off with the simple one right next to pepeke aike he. Which was pepeke aike o which was the next thing to a pepeke aike he. Instead of being a regular statement pepeke aike o was to describe what the noun was. Like instead of saying you are the teacher. Pepeke aike o steps up the sentence. By creating you are the Hawaiian language teacher, or that is a green pen. It didn’t make sense at first like everything else that was introduced to me. Again practice, practice, practice but this one was hard and I still have trouble doing this pepeke. Then during this week we learned a chant or oli how u say it in Hawaiian. Kumu told us the reason to oli wasn’t only for entering and exiting but it is also for historic purposes. You can oli when you are at the pali. Some of us forgot what the pali was about. The pali was the last war before Kamehameha the great joined all the islands. So now every day before we enter class and after the 20 minute break we have to oli. Our oli is called kunihi. He put this on the test as well just so we can remember it and says it louder than the other Hawaiian language classes. We have the words down but still need some help on projecting our voice. P.I.N.K is very important for the pepeke structure which is both two new things we learned this week. I know and this is only half of the information we still have some more pepeke sentences. P.I.N.K is an acronym for papani, ioa, nonoa, and kikino. Papani like you know is a pronoun. There are eleven papani which is au `oe `o ia. These are the singular pronouns which is I, you and, he or she. Kumu tells us there are problems always in the English and he is right. After two weeks I get more and more confused when I let go of my English mind little by little. Anyways and ioa is a proper name. There are two types i`oa paku and maoli. Maoli is a person’s name while paku is a place name. Not chuck e chesses or leonards but an actual region name. For example Las Vegas or pali. Nonoa is for possession and there are six of them. We call them the fab six. These six words are ko`u, ka`u, kou, kau, kona, and kana. The first two ko`u and ka`u is for mine or my. You use ko`u for your name, parents, grandparents, basically you generation and up, and anything you can get on top or in to. Ka`u is for possession basically everything else except for any word that starts with hoa. That is where u put ko’u. Your kids generation and down is not ko`u it’s ka`u. Last but not least is the kikino which is a common noun. We call it P.I.N.K for short. Wait there is still more. If I didn’t know this class would be so brutal I might have just stayed home. The pepeke structure is based on a he`e or octopus. This is the basic for any pepeke sentence it has a po`o (head) piko (body) and awe (leg). The pepeke structure is based on an octopus cause of how many legs an octopus so can a pepeke sentence. There has to be an `ami to every awe cause that is what makes it connect to the piko. The po`o is what contains the description, action, or verb. While the piko anything P.I.N.K can go into it and the awe is the add-on to what it describes the sentence. There are one more pepeke we reviewed for the very long test. It was pepeke `a`ano. This is a descriptive sentence. An example is he is a smart student. This is the pepeke I had no trouble at all. Only for the sentence structure I was completely fine with this. Also on the test we also had to ho`ole the pepeke we wrote. Ho`ole is to make the sentence a negative. To do that was what we call the golden rule. The golden rule means in order for the sentence to be a negative. We have to take any papani that stands alone and put by `a`ole which means no in Hawaiian. Other than some more counting that was our entire week with the quiz. After the quiz which took the whole half the day we went outside to make tea leaf leis, learn yet another pepeke. Which is a locational pepeke and we had to work in the tiny lo`i patch. Kumu was sorry for giving us all this work. It felt to me that I was getting pounded by waves and waves of olelo Hawaii. Again I didn’t know the next week will be sooooo much worse.