This Kahiau Project made me understand that being an important person in the world is so hard. It is hard to make a difference and it is hard to make a change when you are doing it by yourself. I realized that if you have people that are diligent and are willing to help you with all of your struggles, then it is so much easier to be a Global Citizen. For our Kahiau project, we were able to clean 3 beaches and we told each other that we would constantly look on the ground and pick up trash. Now that our project is over, I am noticing that I am still looking at the ground and picking up the trash I see around me.I think that this project was able to make me a cleaner, which is so weird to me.
During research, we were able to see that humans waste a lot of food every day. After this project, Kaylee, Hau, and I were able to agree with this research. We decided that even after cleaning the beach so much, we only made such a small difference in the world. There is SO MUCH RUBBISH. I expected this project to be super easy (which was the reason Hauhere, Kaylee and I picked this project in the first place), but it turns out that it is hard to plan things when we live far apart from each other and that we are all very busy people. I’d hate to tell you that we did this last minute, but it indeed was: last minute. We were so prepared the first month. We were ready to help the world with anything it needed, but our spirit for helping somehow died. The last month of working on this project was so stressful because we needed to present something. We wanted to be able to show our hard work. I wish we cleared our schedules or did a cleanup during spring break, so helping the world didn’t feel so much like a burden.
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We have great news. Last weekend we finally got together and did one of our beach clean ups. We are hoping to be able to some how get the word out that we are going to do a beach clean up this Saturday as well because we believe that we need to do more for our project to really make a difference. We finally received a response from BYU Hawaii, who is helping us with our project. The college students know about our beach clean up this Saturday and hopefully they will want to make as much as a difference as we do. Hopefully, this beach clean up we will be able to get more photos of us then we did last weekend and maybe a video too. I want others to see this project and see the difference we made and how much fun we are having.
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Cloe Paet
I am a student at Kamehameha Schools. I am in the class of 2019. I was born and raised on Oahu. I enjoy music and I am a part of the band program. Why is this project important?
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