Summer of 2000 on the island of Oahu

What and interesting summer!

Back in May, I was approached by Jon Parise, a fellow house member, about the possibility of going with him and Joe Sunday to Hawaii to work for some guy. As the title of this post suggests, I accepted. The summer job would count as a co-op (sort of like an internship) for Jon, Joe, and I. To graduate, we all needed at least one co-op. In fact, I still needed 3 quarters worth.

The job was simple enough. We'd be living and working from the boss's house up on a mountain (actually, I think it was a crater) near Honolulu. In retrospect the summer was great. The only unfortunate things were the living and work arrangements. The boss had two kids who were a bit bratty, we basically slept in the hallway (Joe more than Jon and I), and there were like 12 other people in the house. Getting to live in Hawaii for 3 months though, that's a once in a lifetime experience, so I can't speak too negatively about the whole thing.

We basically worked for nothing except that we didn't have to pay for rent or food, and our round-trip airfare was paid too. Let me tell you, I carried that ticket on me at all times...just in case things got a bit too weird at the house. :)

As I said before, living arrangements were a bit odd. We knew going in that it would be "dorm style living" to quote the boss. You'll see what that means and more by checking out the pics from Oahu in my photo gallery. You might also want to use the map of the island below for reference.