KDEN FOA (pau sum moa)
worked as a student help for mel sakaguchi (dean of ed services) one summer and was the mostest nutses job as i didn't really do anything and was bored out of my mind...had an office in eckhardt (alaka‘i) in the now vcaa office all to myself...neal joseph, charles whitten and sandy toporcer had the offices next to me...had to read a few things from him and he had the worstest handwriting ever seen...was just straight lines going across the page with a few small kine bumps...couldn't make out anything in the beginning butt got betta by end of summer and had to keep going next door for try ask his secretary, cheryl de mello foa try tell me...at one point there was nothing to do so was playing with the rubber cement and made a boogers by putting some on ur thumb and rolling it with your pointer til it dried and u had won booger – at least it looked like one...anyways, then made a little more and then a little more and then got braver and coated part of the desk and then most of the desk and then the floor behind the desk and den pretty much the whole floor in da office...by da end, had this massive booger ball about the size of a soft ball...bestest is nobody said anything...figure they had to smell the fumes...oh well, now dat i think about it, mayb it bin a walter set up (see next person)...
the semester i started, walter ps chun was the director of community college services, chancellor, university of hawaii at manoa (i neva know til recently cuz he no was like that), was my pool hall friend's dad and bin teach me da loads on how to work the system while i was in school and more so when i came back work in uh system...i started at wcc then went to manoa continuing ed and then to hcc to work for walter den when he bailed out, i went to med school, imi hoʻola and then back to wcc in 2005...get sew many stories and lessons from him talking about "fudge" (uh president matsuda) while stay recording won project for psy class, getting osu alumni to write me letters of rec for osu, getting million dollar anonymous donation for fujio matsuda technology training and education center at each hcc and wcc, getting me in with da welding, carpentry, apprenticeship, auto body, automotive, mason, and ac shops sew could play with all da tools and make all kine projects, or sending me to all the neighbor islands for ase motor vehicle grant…was supposed to write a report for motor vehicle board, but he said no worries, nobody gonna read or kare so no need write um cuz they just like look like they helping train mechanics and he was right...he got me experience as an administrator (director of cont ed at hcc) and seeing the workings of hcc admin team (pete kessinger, ramsey pederson, don bourassa, valerie evans) and he also made it so could work half time and still get full credit for retirement system...there's just so much funny stories...even while he stay lay on his bed in hospice, his walter mannerisms came out as he would touch his ear lobes or pinch his nose or raise his hands and shrug and say "as how it goes, nothing u can do"...anyways, walter died last year june so guess he pau real live life mentoring me for now and only gonna ghost mentor...
dis one pau…tu b continued anada time bumbi…
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Sounds great!! Illuminating my passion fo learn plenty moa….mahalo
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