Autobiography
My name is Cullen Patrick Ahia Meyers. My first name Cullen comes from a famous rugby player named Christian Cullen from the All Blacks. My dad named me after him because Christian was one of his favorite rugby players. I have two middle names, Patrick comes from my moms side and Ahia comes from my dad side. My last name comes from my dad side and that name is Meyers. My dads name is William Meyers and my moms name is Kylie Barker. I am from a family of eight with two brothers, three sisters, and parents.
I am seventeen years old and currently a senior at Kamehameha Highschool. I was born in Kahuku and raised in Laie Hawaii for almost my whole life. I lived in California for about a year. Before I came to Kamehameha Schools in 6th grade, I went to Laie Elementary School. My favorite things to do are going to the beach, surfing, hiking, hanging out with friends and family, and playing video games. I have been on the Kamehameha Highschool Surf Team for about three years and cross country for one or two years.
I am from Laie but I couldn't find the name of the winds and rains of Laie. The name of the winds where I am from are Ahamanu and Lanakila. The name of the rain where I am from is Ua-Kani-koʻo. The mauna of my choice is the Koʻolau mountain range because I live on that side of the island. I pass by Koʻolau mountains every time I go to school on the bus and I am amazed about how majestic and beautiful it looks. About how green, steep, big, and tall it is.
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Some events in my life that has helped to shape a Mālama Honua mindset is service projects from school and in my community. For my Hawaiian Culture class, we had to do a certain amount of hours of just giving service so I went to the loʻi patches at UH Manoa to help clean and make a loi patch. I also had other feildtrips at Kamehameha Schools where we went to different loi patches and also the beach and all we did was clean it for us and younger generations. I was taught alot in many different classes about what I can do to care for the land and make it good for others in the future. I was taught many ways our land is dying and how we can make a difference and conserve the land. The land is a very important thing and if we dont use it carefully and malama the ʻāina, we wont have a good one in the future.
What I hope to get out of this Mālama Honua class is to learn the importance of keeping the land safe so it would help me to want to take care of it more. I hope that we can make a difference in the land by going outside, finding problems in the land, and doing something about it. Having activities that make to ʻaina clean again. I hope that I can find new and better ways of how I can keep the land clean. Aloha ʻāina means to love the land. To me, loving the land means the same thing as loving a person. If you love a person, you would do anything and you would take care of that person just like how you should love the land. If you Aloha ʻāina, then you must mālama honua and take care of the land.