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Hilo
I spent the first day in Hilo feeling like a tourist but had fun. A bunch of us--Kareem, Sheila, Jason, Cameron etc. etc.--spent the day doing a van tour of Hilo. First, we had lunch at Verna’s Diner, which was all of us pretty much helping Jason eat his order of poco moco, a traditional Hawaiian dish of egg, rice, gravy, and chicken. We then made our way to National Volcano Park where we watched hot springs from the ground and walked through a lava tube, formed from hardened volcanic clasts and lava. Just when I thought Geology was the most useless course I’d taken at Penn so far, a lot of the information I crammed proved to be helpful during the tour. We then went to Rainbow Falls. The precipitation had been low so there weren’t any smaller waterfalls that we could jump off of L, but I’m planning to do that in Mauritius. Finally, we went to Richardson’s black sand beach, which was really cool. The ‘black sand’ was actually eroded mafic (igneous and metamorphic) rocks that were expelled by volcanoes. Later that night, we went to the “Luau Experience” held at the University of Hawai’i Hilo camp ground. The food was alright. I had pork, mac salad, and rice. I tried traditional Hawai’ian poi (made from mashed tero root) and salmon/tomato salad. Not a big fan of either but it was cool to try it. We thought that there would be professional entertainers/hula dancers, but the entertainment was by UH-H students and family members. The best part was Samoan chanting at the end. The call and response chanting reminded me of Nigerian chants (Igbo kwenu etc. etc). We had fun because we always do lol, but overall I would advise future Semester at Sea-er’s to not sign up for it—extremely overpriced for what you get. Neha and I spent the afternoon at a Hilo Thai restaurant and stocking up on essentials at Walmart w. Kareem and Sheila.
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Hilo
I spent the first day in Hilo feeling like a tourist but had fun. A bunch of us--Kareem, Sheila, Jason, Cameron etc. etc.--spent the day doing a van tour of Hilo. First, we had lunch at Verna’s Diner, which was all of us pretty much helping Jason eat his order of poco moco, a traditional Hawaiian dish of egg, rice, gravy, and chicken. We then made our way to National Volcano Park where we watched hot springs from the ground and walked through a lava tube, formed from hardened volcanic clasts and lava. Just when I thought Geology was the most useless course I’d taken at Penn so far, a lot of the information I crammed proved to be helpful during the tour. We then went to Rainbow Falls. The precipitation had been low so there weren’t any smaller waterfalls that we could jump off of L, but I’m planning to do that in Mauritius. Finally, we went to Richardson’s black sand beach, which was really cool. The ‘black sand’ was actually eroded mafic (igneous and metamorphic) rocks that were expelled by volcanoes. Later that night, we went to the “Luau Experience” held at the University of Hawai’i Hilo camp ground. The food was alright. I had pork, mac salad, and rice. I tried traditional Hawai’ian poi (made from mashed tero root) and salmon/tomato salad. Not a big fan of either but it was cool to try it. We thought that there would be professional entertainers/hula dancers, but the entertainment was by UH-H students and family members. The best part was Samoan chanting at the end. The call and response chanting reminded me of Nigerian chants (Igbo kwenu etc. etc). We had fun because we always do lol, but overall I would advise future Semester at Sea-er’s to not sign up for it—extremely overpriced for what you get. Neha and I spent the afternoon at a Hilo Thai restaurant and stocking up on essentials at Walmart w. Kareem and Sheila.
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