06/18/2012-06/22/2012

Okay, so this week was the hardest week of my life. We had to do so much work and learned like a million new things. We had to do so much stuff to do. Vocab, new sentence patterns, counting, new meles, and P.I.N.K. I could barely understand what was going on. Like there was so much stuff to learn. Words cannot explain. Everyday was a new thing to learn and I was still stuck on what we went over the day before. We had a test everyday. Even right now while i'm typing this. So, yeah, there's so much we had to go over. Vocab. We had to study and memorize like a million words a day. Just joking. Only like twenty-five. But it was still hard. And the next day we would have a test on the words. For me, it's more easier to translate the words from hawaiian to english. Everyday, our kumu would give us twenty-five words to study. We had to study words for things you find around your home, your school, in your family, verbs, and adjectives. Learning these new vocabulary words made it easier to create sentences. It was pretty easy trynna memorize the words. I studied by making notecards. I also practooced with my friends in the morning. So, that made things easier. We even learned new sentence patterns. Pepeke Aike He, Pepeke Aike 'A'ano. Weadded onto the Pepeke Aike He to make more harder by adding descriptive words to the sentences. So, instead of putting "I am a student" we added a descriptive word like "smart". "I am the smart student". This means more rules. And here comes the tricky one. Pepeke Aike 'O. I would always get this one and Pepeke Aike He mixed up. This one was probably the most difficult one to learn. But I could understand it better after we got to make posters for this. For this one we would have to make two 'ōkenas equal eachother. For the ho'ole we would have to take out the 'o part because it'll just be saying the same thing. Pepeke Aike 'A'ano is a descriptive sentence. You start it off by using an 'a'ano to describe an 'ōkena. To do this one you have to think about Yoda or pidgeon. So instead of saying "he is tall", you would say "Tall him" and the. Translate it into 'olelo Hawai'i. To me, this was the easiest one to learn. We evenlearned a way to construct these sentences by thinking of a he'e and their body parts. The po'o representing the What, adjective, or action. The piko represents anything P.I.N.K. The 'awe is the outcome. And between the 'awe and the piko, there has to be an 'ami that attaches them. We use i As the 'ami which means to or at. And you can have as much 'awes as you want. So I understood real fast. Another thing we learned was how to count up to one thousand. It's kinda easy to count now compared to last week. It's really easy because I practiced and we had alot of worksheets where we had to write the numbers out in 'ōlelo Hawai'i. If you know up to one hundred, then you can pretty much easily count up to one thousand and even pass that. Throughout this week we've been studying a new oli kahea. Kunihi. At first, it was really hard to memorize and all that. But everyday, I studied and memorized line after line. Then it became easier and I can say it without the words. It wasn't that long and didn't take a long time to remember. Now, like sometimes I just randomly start singing this oli in my head. I don't know. Now it's lust stuck in there. This oli is about the legend of Hi'iaka and Lohi'au. Lohi'au was Pele's lover. So this MELE talks about the journey of Hi'iaka went to go fetch Lohi'au. And finally, we learned about P.I.N.K. and what each letter stands for. The P stands for Papani, a pronoun. I stands for I'oa, a proper name. There are two types of I'oas. I'oa Paku which is a place. And the other one, I'oa Ma'uli which is a proper name. N stands for Nonoa, a posessive noun. K stands for Ka'i+Kikino. So, for papanis we learned eleven different papanis. Au, oe, and 'o ia means I, you, and him/her. The rest were groups of two and three. I'oa is a proper name like Ikaika, Kaleo, Waimea, or Nanakuli. A name or a place. For nonoa, we went over Kino 'o and Kino 'A. Kino 'O was possessive and you would use it for describing things that you had when you were born, things you could wear, get into, or like get on. There were words like ko'u, kou, and Kona. Kino 'A is used for thongs you acquired. I could memorize the difference because kino 'a, I would think a for acquire. You would three words: ka'u, kau, and kana. For Ka'i+Kikino. A Kikino is a common noun like animals and stuff. And one rule is that if there is a kikino, there has to be a ka'i. A Ka'i leads the sentence at the end. But this rule doesn't apply to keia, kena, and kela. These will act as a Papani whenever their alone in a sentence. So umm yeah. That's alot of stuff. But i'm still looking forward to next week. But hopefully, it'll be more easier.