Remember YOUR "small keed time"?
Those were the good old days! YOU were young, innocent, naive and maybe even a little bit "kolohe" (rascal). When you look back, I bet you cannot help but grin, yeah? I bet you can just feel a longing oozing up inside of you for a time when life was much simpler. Wherever you live now, if you grew up in Hawaii, you must remember your "hanabuddah days". Eh, no shame ... we all had "hanabuddah".
Eh … right now get choke stories already online written by Hawaiians and Hawaiians at heart. Most all writers had the unique life experience of growing up in Hawaii. That’s why the site is called ”Hanabuddah Days”.
Enjoy these personal stories.
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Written by George K. Cabral
As a small keed, every season brings a different thing to do wen u live in Hawaii. It was fall. The sun was still up and fairly strong but a cool breeze would always be blowing with a crisp wind in the air. Now that I think about this, it wasn't cold at all compared to what I've gone through now. But eh, I no like go into the "how tough wuz wen we wuz keeds yah"?
So as keeds it was what we called Kite season. You could buy a kite at B&K owah go git da betta selection ones down at Nakatani
Read more: Kite Season
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Written by Sharon Iwasa Perkins
Dese days I teach kindergarten keikis on da mainland. I live in Pittsburg, California, so I get plenny pilipino, Chinee, popolo an haole students, an everybody in my school know I da Hawaiian teachah. (Dey say I Hawaiian, even though I Japanee
Read more: Bambucha Bugs
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Written by Wayne Yoshida
One time, I was just sitting inside da house, noting to do. Just staring outside da window. I saw da kine big black an yellow wasp flying agains da window screen. Back an fort da wasp was flying, and hitting agains da screen to get outside. Den, da
Read more: Da Spider an Da Wasp
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Written by Izzie Kikue
You know... Keiki (children) stay always learning lessons, yeah? We watch dem learn life's lessons and sometimes so funny dat you goddah buss out laughing. And den, uddah times, dey go thru' hahd times and all you can do is geeve dem one big, long
Read more: Da Red Sea
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Written by Kamaka Brown
I think maybe ten. Yeah, ten years old I was at the time. No can remember really good cuz', I was, um ... TEN I told you!! Eh, you gotta pay attention! We was living Lusitana Street, Punchbowl side above the Board of Water Supply. We was
Read more: The Lusitana Sax
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Written by Greg Librando
I was born in Hana, Maui-October 18, 1932. When I was 5 years old my family moved to Kaupo, Maui.
I attended Kaupo School, the first and second grades. It was a large one-room schoolhouse, divided by a partition. There was one teacher whose name
Read more: My Childhood Life in Kaupo
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Written by Byron Bader
I guess I must have been about 8 and my brother 11 when we got into this adventure. The Honolulu zoo didn't have a fence around it in the late 1940's and where the current parking lot is located, there was just a long open red dirt area lined
Read more: The Storm Drain Voyagers
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Written by Mokihana White
On dis day, my friend Judy wen invite me to go wit her 'ohana to dis cabin dey had in Kahuku. I had go wit dem befoah foah da weekend, an we alla time had good fun. Dis weekend stay so hot. Da sun stay beating down on us, so me an Judy wen decide
Read more: Da Watahmelon Kakaroach Keikis
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Written by George K. Cabral
We wuz jus' da local kine keeds from Uleawa. I guess we wuz about 10 or 11 yea's old. I shua you seen us in da evenin' going home wit our homemade kine paipfo boards out of plywood, on da top of the rise by Uleawa beach park near da bathhouse.
Our
Read more: Uleawa Days