[GH85Carrera]

TheWhen we lived in Hawaii I went to school from 8th to 10 grade there. I first year was horrid, as I was 50% of the Haole students. Yep, just one other unfortunate Haole kid. Every day was some fighting, and on Fridays even the girls would hit me. And they all had huge Samoan boyfriends, so no fighting back with a girl. The last Friday of the year, I just stayed home.

Then we moved on base to Hickam AFB and I went to Radford HS and it was about 50-50 Haole and locals so no more fighting.

I was proficient in understand and speaking pidgin English after three years.

Then we moved to Alabama to a school that was 60% black. I was clueless to what they were saying for the first year. I completely lost my ability to speak pidgin after two years.

Tattoo and Aloha are about the only two Hawaiian words in common use in the rest of the world. Even 50 years later at my parents house they had a peg board on the garage we all called it a puka board.