Throughout my life, I have only moved twice. Although I have lived in the mokupuni of Kalihi for a longer period of time, I grew up in Ewa Beach. I moved to Kalihi when I was in Kindergarten. We had to move because with our expanding family, the town home that we lived in could not sustain us. I feel a connection with Ewa Beach because it is the place where I spent part of my childhood in.