Fun Facts

*Random Hawaii Pidgin Phrase of the Day*
kanack attack = food coma

*Random Fact*
Tonga is a group of islands in the South Pacific. The motto of Tonga is "Ko e ?Otua mo Tonga ko hoku tofi?a", meaning God and Tonga are my inheritance.

*Haunted Hawaii Facts of the day*
Oahu - Laie - Polynesian Cultural Center - Each village here seems to have its own specialty. The Fiji village drums play by themselves and the Marquesas village has a ghostly crying baby. People have also reported seeing a woman floating face in the main lagoon.

Honolulu - The Pali Highway - There is an old belief that if you are traveling on the Pali Highway, in the day or night, that you must not have pork in your car. It is believed that your car will stall and will not start again until the pork is taken out of your car. Some locals believe that is the menehune (meh-neh-hoo-neh), mischievous, elflike creatures, that stops you. Others believe it is because Kamapuaa(kah-mah-po-ah-ah), the giant, nine-eyed boar god who lives in the forests of Kaneohe, wont allow you to pass until the pork is taken out of your car. And this means going in either direction- from Honolulu to Kaneohe or Kaneohe to Honolulu. Many locals, to this day, practice this custom whether they believe or not.

*Haunted Hawaii Fact of the Day*
Manoa Chinese Cemetery: Home of Fireballs and Spirits
The cemetery has a reputation of being haunted. Over many years, tales have spread about the glowing fires and swirling little balls of light that fly over the graves here. The Hawaiians refer to fireballs as akua lele, or Flying Gods. Some say that the appearance of such a ball of light is an omen of impending death.

*Fact for the Day*
There are over 362 villages in Samoa owned by extended family units called "aiga" with a total of 18,000 chiefs called "matai".

*Random Fact of the Day*
Hawaii's nickname is "The Aloha State"

**'Aikane O Hawai'i Fact of the Day**
‘Aikane means “friend”, translating our name to “Friend(s) of Hawai'i”.

**Luau Food of the Day**
Kalua Pig---Pork cooked in a pit oven (imu). A whole dressed pig (pua‘a) is salted, wrapped, lowered into the ground oven, and covered. Kâlua is the earth-oven cooking method.

**Random Fact**
Easter Island is known as Rapa Nui in the native Pacific Islander language, meaning "Big Rapa".

*Fact of the Day*
The first macadamia tree was planted in 1946 on the Big Island of Hawaii.

**Fact of the Day**
The Native Hawaiian language has 12 letters.
a e h i k l m n o p u w

**Fact of the Day**
In Maori, the Polynesian language spoken in New Zealand, "Tena Koe" means Hello. "Hei konei" means Bye.

**Hawaii Fact of the Day**
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, people from all over the world started showing up on Hawaii's shores. They brought with them instruments such as the violin, guitar, ukulele, piano, accordion and flute. Missionaries introduced hymns with multi-part harmony. The ukulele and guitar arrived with cowboys from Portugal, Spain and Mexico. Ukulele means 'jumping flea' because of the quick way the instruments were played. Local folks liked guitars and started to play them as well. Soon they developed their own tuning and 'slack key' was born.**

**Pacific Fact of the Day**
The Pacific Ocean covers a third of the worlds surface - it is a massive 64,500,000 sq. miles which is more than the earths total land mass. Most of this is ocean - just 500,000 sq. miles is land. Over 90% of this land is on the relatively large islands of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Hawaii.

**Hawaii Haunted Fact of the Day**
Maui--On the way to Pukalani there is a park that has a huge hill in the middle of it. It is said that American soldiers from WWII would bring their girls here to neck. At night you can sometimes hear the giggles of young women.

**Aikane Fact of the Day**
Aikane O Hawai'i is a student organization committed to promoting and perpetuating the Pacific Islander Culture at the University of San Diego and the San Diego community.Our membership is open to all undergraduate students at USD, of all races, nationalities, ethnicities, and cultures. Our members strive to learn from and teach one another about our different cultures by sharing our traditions and life experiences.