About Me
My name is Lexis Akeo and I am from the ahupuaʻa of Honouliuli in the ʻEwa moku. I donʻt really have a wai or kai that I go to often or is of great importance to me, so my wai is the Honouliuli stream that I pass over every day on my way to school. I “visit” it every day in the mornings on the way to school. ʻŌlauniu and Kūkalahale are my wind and rain. These are the wind and rain of Kapālama, Kamehameha, the school Iʻve grown up at since birth. My mauna is Kaʻala, near Honouliuli.
Mālama Honua to me means taking care of the Earth. In order to do that, we have to find ways to take care of our island and planet as a whole. We must work together and strategize multiple ways to keep our Earth clean and sustainable. Like our kupuna did, we want to preserve our land for future generations, so that they may experience the beautiful Earth that we still have today.
I think my whole schooling in general and my family have helped to shape a Mālama Honua mindset. Just being a student at Kamehameha Schools has taught me so much about Hawaiian culture. One important component of our culture is the ʻāina. All over school you always hear or see “take care of the ʻāina”. Learning about Hawaiian culture, and the importance the land was to our kupuna, further enforces the idea of preserving our culture, one of which is taking care of the land we live on. In one of the stories about the creation of the first Hawaiian, it is said that Kāne, Lono, and Kū made the first man from the earth. That just reinforces how important the earth and land was to our kupuna. Therefore, it is our kuleana as Hawaiians to take care of the land and help it prosper.
As a student of Mālama Honua, I have many aspirations. One of my aspirations is to learn more about Hawaiian plants so that I could one day have my own garden of Hawaiian plants. Another aspiration is to learn more in depth what I, myself, can do to help take care of the Earth, and put it into action. Lastly, I aspire to just learn more about my Hawaiian culture through the cultivation and preservation of Hawaiian land.
Aloha ʻāina is love of the land or love the land. To me aloha ʻāina means exactly that, love the land. Our kupuna thought of the ʻāina as living beings and entities. They took care of the land and it provided for them. Therefore, to me, aloha ʻāina means loving the land as if it was your own kupuna that you need to cherish and love.
Aloha ʻāina relates to Mālama Honua in many ways. Since aloha ʻāina means love the land and mālama honua means take care of the Earth, they relate because loving the land is taking care of the Earth. If you love the land, you would want to take care of the Earth. Loving the land does not mean destroying and killing it like we have been, that’s why we have to take care of it. If we aloha ‘āina, then we will mālama honua.
Mālama Honua to me means taking care of the Earth. In order to do that, we have to find ways to take care of our island and planet as a whole. We must work together and strategize multiple ways to keep our Earth clean and sustainable. Like our kupuna did, we want to preserve our land for future generations, so that they may experience the beautiful Earth that we still have today.
I think my whole schooling in general and my family have helped to shape a Mālama Honua mindset. Just being a student at Kamehameha Schools has taught me so much about Hawaiian culture. One important component of our culture is the ʻāina. All over school you always hear or see “take care of the ʻāina”. Learning about Hawaiian culture, and the importance the land was to our kupuna, further enforces the idea of preserving our culture, one of which is taking care of the land we live on. In one of the stories about the creation of the first Hawaiian, it is said that Kāne, Lono, and Kū made the first man from the earth. That just reinforces how important the earth and land was to our kupuna. Therefore, it is our kuleana as Hawaiians to take care of the land and help it prosper.
As a student of Mālama Honua, I have many aspirations. One of my aspirations is to learn more about Hawaiian plants so that I could one day have my own garden of Hawaiian plants. Another aspiration is to learn more in depth what I, myself, can do to help take care of the Earth, and put it into action. Lastly, I aspire to just learn more about my Hawaiian culture through the cultivation and preservation of Hawaiian land.
Aloha ʻāina is love of the land or love the land. To me aloha ʻāina means exactly that, love the land. Our kupuna thought of the ʻāina as living beings and entities. They took care of the land and it provided for them. Therefore, to me, aloha ʻāina means loving the land as if it was your own kupuna that you need to cherish and love.
Aloha ʻāina relates to Mālama Honua in many ways. Since aloha ʻāina means love the land and mālama honua means take care of the Earth, they relate because loving the land is taking care of the Earth. If you love the land, you would want to take care of the Earth. Loving the land does not mean destroying and killing it like we have been, that’s why we have to take care of it. If we aloha ‘āina, then we will mālama honua.