This view of Diamond Head is from the third floor of Sakamaki outside the room where I have class on Tuesday afternoons. All Tuesday afternoon. For six and a half hours. In a row. In the same room. It seemed like such a good idea when I was trying to fit a job around my class schedule.OK, back to the time. Hawaii has its own time zone (in more ways than one). Hawaiian Standard Time is the official time that is four hours behind Colorado right now. When it is noon in Boulder, it's 8 am here. The state does not observe daylight savings, so the time here will not change next month. But it is getting dark earlier. You can see the setting sun reflecting off the building at the bus stop tonight after class.
The other kind of time here is referred to as "Hawaiian time." It pretty much means "We'll start when everyone is ready." It could also be referred to as "Island time" since it is common across populations. When you refer to "Hawaiian" here it means the ethnic group indigenous to the islands, not all the people who live in the state. Those people are "locals" or "kamaaina".
This is the view of downtown Honolulu from campus. It's about three miles from the UH campus in Manoa to downtown. On Tuesdays, I catch the bus from campus to downtown and then change to the Kailua bus. It takes about an hour to get from campus to home, which is close to the time it took to get from CU to Gunbarrel by bus except here I'm going across the island and through the mountains.
