MAC Dinner

Every year, HBA's Mainland Advisory Council (MAC) visits Hawaii for a week. The MAC members are supporters of HBA and they spend the week visiting the campus to see what their generous donations have funded. To cap off the week, HBA hosts a big banquet and showcase to thank the members for their support. It features a fabulous buffet at the Hilton complete with entertainment from some of our most talented kids.

Luckily for us, they invite all of the faculty to attend the event, and we spent the evening chatting with other teachers at our table. It came up last night that all of the teachers seated at our table had actually taught Matt when he was a student at HBA! Mr. Herder, Mrs. Ustare, and Mr. and Mrs. Hayashi. Now we all work together - weird and very cool. We had a wonderful time reflecting on the vision of HBA and enjoying some ono grinds!

The program featured performances by the Soldiers of Light, the various choirs, and HBA's student hula halau. These lovely Middle School Choir girls are all eighth graders that I teach. Mr. Hom and I comparing our bellies - I win!