My Self
About Me

Aloha ka kou.

Welcome to my website, my name is Ihilani.  What’s your name?  I see, I see.   Nice to meet you.  I hope you enjoy your stay.  If you have any questions or comments, let me know.  I’ll do my best to provide whatever help I can give you.

Perhaps by now you have undergone many neurological simulations and have arrived at the inference that I must be from Hawai’i.  If you have, maikai’i, very good.  If I could put a gold star next to a public display of your name, I would.  Unfortunately, I can’t do this, seeing we have just met.  Next time, perhaps.  If you had not made the aforementioned conclusion, you probably have yet to be exposed to the wonders of Hawai’i.  If the latter is true, read on for a bit of information about the place where I grew up.

Hawai’i is the fiftieth state of the United States of America.  This is not surprising, considering that it is the most far removed state in America.  Hawai’i is even removed from itself, in one way or another.  This is because it is comprised of eight main islands in addition to numerous manini, small, islands.  As a local to Hawai’i—born and raised—Hawai’i is very important to me. 

One interesting characteristic of Hawai’i is its diversity.  Many ethnicities are present on the islands and it is not uncommon for children to be an ethnically “mixed plate”.  For example, I am ethnically Okinawan (Japanese), Hawai’ian, Chinese, English, Irish, and French.  The cultural diversity in Hawai’i is also evident in the colloquial dialect of Hawaii termed “pidgin”.  Pidgin incorporates various modified ethnic terms and a unique grammar, accent, and other terminology. 

                                                                                 Mahalo for you kokua,  
                                                                                 Ihilani 平川

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