The end of it all...

Even though this is a very happy moment because this is our last blogpost, it is also a very sad moment because that means my time of being a senior at Kamehameha is coming to an end. Well, enough with the waterworks, this project as a whole has taught me a lot of things about myself that I never knew and about my teammates as well. We did a lot together as a group; starve together, bleed together, sweat together and the most important, almost died together. Even though there were some close calls, it was really fun because we got to adventure into the valley where hardly anyone is allowed to enter. A lot of things went right with our project. We found a lot of support from teachers and administrators that helped to make our project what it was. It also helped us prolong our project for the future generations to continue and that is what would make me feel like we accomplished our project, if the future generations continued what we started. We did our blogposts, our mid-term peer reviews, and papers on time for the most part and that was due to leadership between all of us. What did not go so right was the fact that even though we all had a side of leadership, we had sides of us that we did not know before like laziness. This was a minor flaw within the whole project but it was there. We did not plan on being left without water and food when we ventured into the valley, that was a miscalculation on our part thinking that we could travel 5 to 6 miles through a forest and slippery rocks with a minimal amount of supply. Although we almost died because of this, it taught us a lot because we know now that in order to reach the back of the valley, proper planning has to be done to survive the treacherous trip. What I would like to see changed is not specifically based on the project guidelines itself, but on the people's ideas. I would like to see some uniqueness in their projects and not some boring thing that everyone thinks of, but to think outside of the box that hides us from seeing what really needs to be done. I believe that we were doing science because it dealt with water flow and how there wasn't a sufficient amount of pressure and gravity to push the water down the length of the stream. Overall, this project was a fun learning experience, we got to be with the 'āina and it taught us a lot about ourselves.