Around Campus

Before the Easter vacation I just wrote about, I was working at the Luke Center, in which the Luke aunties wanted me to put Sustainability Fair notices in all the teacher's boxes. I had to walk from office to office in four different buildings and deliver all of those notices. I actually enjoyed doing this because there were so much of the campus to see. It seemed as though it has been so long ever since I have been an Elementary/Middle School student going to classes in Winnie, Castle, and Bishop. I don't remember too much about Winnie since I only spent one year as a student there. But I do remember the little swinging door to the Winnie office that was once up to chest and is now to my hips. It's kind of weird because when I was in fourth grade, I remember thinking that everyone in Castle were old smart giants. And when I think of the sixth graders now, I only think of them as one of those little kids. As a little kid, I remember thinking the world was just a big place, with big people walking around, rather than realizing that I was just a small kid against a bunch of average sized people.
The next stop on my list was Castle and Case. Castle looked exactly the same as I remembered it, it didn't seem to have had any renovations or anything like that. The only thing is that everything looked smaller because I am now bigger. There was also an unfamiliar face behind the office desk, instead of that haole lady with the bob haircut. As I entered Case, I was reminded of the time of when I first had to deliver something to the teachers boxes. I was amazed with the size and cleanliness of the place, and had gotten lost, going around in circles trying to find the office. I remember passing by the mural of Punahou. There was a bench along a wall with a tile mural of the whole school, with every single building on that tile map of Punahou. As I was wandering around, becoming more lost, I decided to go to the bathroom. And inside the girls bathroom was so nice, it looked like it could be in some nice restraunt. There were extra sanitary pads along with body spray, lotion, and flowers in a pretty basket by the sinks and a note that said 'use whatever you need' or something like that. I was just blown away by this bathroom and wondered why the academy, the rulers of the campus, didn't get such nice treatment. After that I wandered some more, looking into the different classrooms, and every single one of the classrooms were doing something high tech. In one classroom, I saw all of the students with their laptops open working so diligently, none of them were even talking to each other. In another classroom, I saw the students with their laptops open, starring at a screen in which the teacher was using the elmo to do some sort of math problem. I know we have elmos in academy, but still. I couldn't believe that there wasn't one classroom that wasn't doing somehing high tech; it was pretty crazy. I'm not sure if it's coincidence or what, but I could really understand what Mr. Watson was telling us in class that the students in Case are the start of a whole new learning style. Hm, that just gave me another idea for my public interest paper.