| | Man... I really miss all of you... the friends from choir, from high school...
Quite admittedly, it gets stifling here sometimes and the whole "unique" culture here can make a free-spirited, open-minded performer and individual a rather sad one. Sure I get my chances to be crazy and wild sometimes, but there are men with tranquilizer guns aimed at your carotid arteries ready to squeeze the trigger if you get out of hand. Oh well... it's a price to pay I guess.
That being said, my professor pulled me out of PCC and gave me a job in school working under him, which is truly a great privilege since my hours have become really flexible this way and I get to learn stuff related to my major while I'm at it. I took a few pics of PCC before I left and here they are!
The "backdrop" of the stage is a waterfall across a lake. That covered thing at the lower center is the imu, an underground oven where porous volcanic rocks cook whatever you put inside - the pua'a (pig) for example.
This is the waterfall near the front entrance of the luau, where the workers wait in a line beside the low rock wall to seat the guests.
And this is how a third of the interior of the restaurant looks like. It seats up to about 600+ people and as a team, we ensure that everyone's fed and happy.
This is a pretty bad pic of the hot line. It was hard to take a pic of it since guests while filing in and I didn't want to look odd trying to take a snapshot of the food. From bottom to top we have: Island Fish (mahi-mahi), Teriyaki Chicken, Kalua Pig (shredded pig from the imu), Chicken Long Rice, Sweet Potatoes (which are purple for some reason) and Steamed Rice.
And here are a couple of Korean workers and a local worker who I got to pose beside the pig. About fifteen minutes into the show, we have to lug the pig across the stage using the imu board (the board on which the pig is placed). It's quite heavy so the guys usually carry the board while the girls carry the table underneath it.
And that's me on my last day with Marya (left) and Pritika (right) - both of whom love teasing, and pestering me. Girl on the left is carrying my bag and they are in fact holding me hostage since it was my last day. Weird smile on my face can be read as oh-crap-they-are-going-to-get-me-now, as it is customary to be splashed with a variety of things, from ice water to salad dressing. Fortunately, the two boys who did it only hurled a rather large pail of freezing cold water - as I had a rehearsal as Jack fifteen minutes later. It's kinda sad to have to leave actually... I might return to work there after May's China/Mongolia trip.
Okay then, I've gotta go back to finishing up quite a few articles of homework due tomorrow. Hope to see some of you guys online someday perhaps!
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| | Posted 1/29/2007 4:57 AM - 60 Views - 2 eProps - 2 comments
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