When a child is born

This is the reason for the season. This little girl is amazing, she touched my heart and hope she touches your too on this special day. The birthday of our Christ the king.

Merry Christmas - Mele Kalikimaka

Just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Although, the weather in Hawaii have been a little wet with occasional showers and sun shine Hawaii is still a great place to be during this winter season. The surf is good, the people is great, and the ALOHA spirit is awesome.

Therefore from our 'ohana to yours, may this holiday season bring you all lots of LOVE, HAPPINESS and PEACE. Aloha no kakou!

Winterball '08

Winterball was at Kualoa Ranch Banquet Hall. Kualoa Ranch is located in the town of Kaaawa Valley and has acres of beautiful valley and mountain peaks on the windward side of the island. The event was a blast. Students dressed up in their best attire and their best attitudes. The evening was full of great ocean & mountain view, great food, great music, great dancing, great fun, and much much more. The Winterball committee and support staff did an awesome job planning, decorating and hosting the event. They did a lot of work and it all paid off. Mahalo nui to the committee and staff for all your hard work. We all appreciated your time and really enjoyed the event.

An invitation is needed to view our photo gallery. Please email you request to maulelava_hlc@yahoo.com .

Math Courses

HLC has 3 different types of Math course taught to our student this year. We have live instructional classes and 2 types of online programs offered by a company called It's All About Kids (IAAK). One online math program is called e2020 and the other is called Compass math. This is our first year using the Compass program, but our second years using e2020 program. For more information on those online programs [click here].

HLC board members decided to analyze the online program operation for one more year to assess its operation and see if it is a good program or not. Sound like a great theory but from a technical point of view its a nightmare. Most of our computers are old donated pc's, therefore, we are using those pc's on our thin client system, which allows computers to be used as terminals without hard drives and it gets all its information from the linux servers. Unfortunately, those servers have been giving me problems. One day its working the next its not working, especially with the lecture videos sounding very choppy and hard to understand. So, I have a lot of students and staff voicing their concerns and the issue is really challenging my technical abilities. I am really hoping to be able to improve our linux thin client system over the Christmas break. I am one of the few staff that will be still working during the school break, so if students on our online math programs need tech assistance with their work I will be available during regular business hours.

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Christmas Party

Christmas Party for staff and special supporters was held today, Dec. 14 2008 at Buca di Beppo in Honolulu. It is a great Italian restaurant next to Dave & Busters & Ward Center. There was so much good food and great fellowship. It was my first time there and really enjoyed it. We had a wonderful time and really appreciated HLC treating us to a great dinner. Mahalo HLC.