Maui Me
For the past few months my sister has been living in Maui with a family as an au pair. Basically, she cleans around the house, takes care of the kids, and helps out wherever needed. In return, she gets room, board, a stipend and the chance to live in Maui with a few days off a week to explore and venture out into the beautiful island. The family she is staying with owns a few condos and the husband is a professional kiteboarder. They have generously offered our family a week's stay in one of their condos in September. In the course of our planning, we found out that our cousins will be vacationing in Maui as well so we coordinated our trips. Beginning the third week of September, I will be flying out with my Mom and Dad to spend a week in Maui!
Now, this is absolutely amazing because my lifelong non-spiritual goal is to learn to surf. I've even mentioned it in my Interests, though I've failed to actually accomplished such a feat. For some reason I've always been attracted to surfing and its culture. It could be in part that I have a "Type A" personality, which is a way of saying I'm impatient, aggressive, and competitive, or in other words, prideful. Supposedly, Type A's can't relax. They're always on the go, looking for a new task to accomplish, or in my case, something to fix. So all that I am naturally is the very opposite of the surf mood. It's laidback, carefree, and easy-going, and I think I'm strangely attracted to these qualitites. But really, the thought of spending the day on a beautiful beach with crystal clear water and waves slowly rolling in one after another seems like a dream. Add a long board for me to learn on and I'm set. Anyways, it's taken me an hour to write this post as I'm researching everything related to surfing/Maui/shorelines/surf cams/magazines/etc so I'm just going to say that I am super pumped to go. Only 78 more days...
Now, this is absolutely amazing because my lifelong non-spiritual goal is to learn to surf. I've even mentioned it in my Interests, though I've failed to actually accomplished such a feat. For some reason I've always been attracted to surfing and its culture. It could be in part that I have a "Type A" personality, which is a way of saying I'm impatient, aggressive, and competitive, or in other words, prideful. Supposedly, Type A's can't relax. They're always on the go, looking for a new task to accomplish, or in my case, something to fix. So all that I am naturally is the very opposite of the surf mood. It's laidback, carefree, and easy-going, and I think I'm strangely attracted to these qualitites. But really, the thought of spending the day on a beautiful beach with crystal clear water and waves slowly rolling in one after another seems like a dream. Add a long board for me to learn on and I'm set. Anyways, it's taken me an hour to write this post as I'm researching everything related to surfing/Maui/shorelines/surf cams/magazines/etc so I'm just going to say that I am super pumped to go. Only 78 more days...
