First night out in a while. Excited for a night with the girls at West Side & festivities after!

Cool I have no date & no one to ask. Nor do I know anyone that would ask me…love my life.

Its almost 8 and I’ve got a few very huge things to do before calling it a night. With the end of the quarter approaching rapidly tomorrow I’ve got stress piling down on me. Math homework to start off so I don’t fail my pivotal quiz tomorrow, satire 60 point parody song, I have yet to make up and sing the lyrics, but I’ll make it happen, and then find a bible verse for my ekalesia. It seems like so little but its really a lot of work but gotta get it done and make sure my grades don’t dramatically drop tomorrow after I’ve worked so hard this quarter to keep them up while indulging in hardcore slacking. Woke up this morning and it was a race to beat the time, I had to be at school by 7 to do a lab with my friend, unfortunately our teacher didn’t come till about 730 so we missed out on half an hour. Luckily we got one and a half labs done before class. Put on the panel to explain surface waves and made myself look pretty clueless but clueless i was. Learned some more things about tsunamis and waves while enjoying Natasha’s banana bread that she made for me, OISHI DES NEI! That’s probably not how you spell that lol. Rehearsals with everyone and our co-ed sounds nice. Kaiponohea, the man who wrote our song came to shed some light on us. We are now motivated to make each other, Kama, Kamehameha, Pauahi and Kaka’ako proud, yeehee! One week till Song Contest, LEHGO! Didn’t have time to go to lunch today, stayed in midkiff to study my psychology. Good thing I did because when I went into that test I was so confident, I ripped that thing in half, 63/70 with 18 points of extra credit, youknowdis. Finished after about 45 minutes and checked & rechecked a billion times. Found my way to Satire afterwards, I had been stressing over my Dr.Science satires when I shouldn’t have since they’re due tomorrow, good thing I already did them though, weehaw. Popcorn, Vitamin C & Red vines with some satires. Graded other people’s projects. Some of them were really good, Battle of Nu’uanu and Pet Rock, Evolution of Music! Let us out early so I made my way to Kaahumanu. Study help with Cup-Choy. Took a while to get started but he bribed us with pizza so what was supposed to be a leave by 4 turned into a leave at 610. He had us doing all sorts of weird methods of memorization. He’s a pretty cool teacher and I love his class. He’s hilarious, 1819 to the tune of Imua Kamehameha, having Pua scream “IMUA E NA POKII, A INU I KA WAI AWAAWA!” Reviews after every big chunk and I know now that I’m going to remember things for the test because of all the little jokes. Well worth it study period. Home & now its time to get down to business! Last last day of 3rd quater in high school tomorrow…EEP!

Sitting here with 45 minutes till this special day ends and I’m overcome with emotion. Today has been one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had. I turned 18 today and aged into legal adulthood. I’ve kissed my childhood goodbye with unwilling and quivering lips. I’ve grown up…and I’m old…EW. As I stood between my mom & my aunty today as we prayed over the birthday kids and food, I squeezed their hands tight. My mom got choked up and started to cry and I don’t yet understand her emotions but I appreciate everything she’s done for me, not only today, but for the past 18 years of my life. I embraced her for a long time after, not saying anything but just enjoying the moment with her, we had made it to 18, we made it. And like she had said, I had been raised by more than just my two parents, but my whole neighborhood, my Ulahea family. They had surprised me on this special day and I didn’t know what was waiting at home for me when I arrived. It all started with a busy afternoon, rushing to Paul Brown’s for a hair appointment that went almost till 6, but I’m more than happy with it. They cut off a few inches and it still looks the same, but it feels lighter and healthier. Got the eyebrows waxed too. Dolled up for the party, yet I didn’t even know it yet. I knew something was up though when my Aunty wouldn’t let me go home to get ready and she told me to follow her home to my own house…SKEtCH. As she took me by my hand to my uncle’s garage and it started to roll up, I saw dozens of feet and chairs with table cloths. There screaming surprise with balloons, signs and noisemakers was my family. My neighbors that turned into brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. I embraced each of them and was happy to see faces that I’d been missing. I had no idea that my mom had been planning this. She had me thinking we were going to CPK tonight. I was completely surprised and oh so grateful. It all clicked, thats why so many people had texted me happy birthday that I hadn’t expected that they’d remember. It all made sense now. Songs from my childhood played in the background, Gullah Gullah Island, Barney’s I Love You, Yoho yoho a pirate’s life for me, hakuna matata, and more. As we played a basketball game I was thrown back to memories. To the days when we used to do this all the time, when Kai was my height and we’d compete till the death. I miss those days, I feel so old. Just sitting down and eating dinner, reminiscing and talking about life. Giving my little brother’s advice and just enjoying their company. Enjoying my favorite furikake salmon made by my favorite uncle. Uncontrollably smiling while they sang me happy birthday and I blew out my candles. I almost had nothing to wish for as I blew out those candles because in those moments everything was right in the world. It didn’t matter that I’d had my heart broken a day ago, or that my grades are crap, or that I have no idea what the future holds for me, in those moments I felt so at home and like nothing could go wrong. The night continued with talking story and eating. Until, just like I was turning 10 or 12, as I had basically looked, we played birthday games. Starting from popping balloons with my booty, to musical chairs and even a pinata. Didn’t win the $20 but it didn’t matter. It had been the first birthday party that I’d been thrown on the street and though it’d taken them long enough to do it, it was worth it. This was by far the best birthday party that I ever could have had. I wouldn’t have wanted to spend my birthday with anyone other than them, than my family. I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful life. People who truly care about me. Answered and thanked the facebook birthday wishers and now I’ve got to get to the homework I’ve put off. Days like these make me wish I’d never grown up, where has the time gone, where has little Kahea gone. Days like these make me wish I could go back to the simpler days, to my childhood, to being a kid. Days like these make me wish it was my birthday everyday, because today…today was perfect. Thank you Ke Akua for everything <3