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It has been a while since we last updated our official blog. Recently, I have been away for a week to have a holiday in Hawaii. The weather was great while I was there; it was sunny during the day, and got comfortably cool in the morning and in the evening. I truly enjoyed staying in Hawaii and I feel like I spent more than a week there.

On the day after I arrived in Hawaii, I took a taxi to see a statue of Gandhi, which was recommended to me by Mr. Antonio. Not many locals know about this statue, so I had to locate it on the map. The taxi drove along Waikiki Beach towards Diamond Head, and I found a small, quiet park and the statue next to it on the side of the road.

I got out of the car and went closer to the statue. It was indeed a statue of Gandhi, wearing a red lei around his neck. On the base stone, there were words carved from which I learned that the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation erected this statue in 1990. I was very happy to find what I was looking for, and I took photographs of it.

I don’t know the reason why the statue of Gandhi, who was Indian, was in Hawaii. It seemed that the reason was explained on the base stone, but it was too dark to read. Still, I understand that people, not only in India, but also around the world love and respect him. It is also understandable that Gandhi is one of the people whom Mr. Ríos respects.

Apart from that, I also got to see a statue of Akebono, who is an ex-sumo wrestler from Hawaii. It was located in an indigenous Hawaiian village on the outskirts of Honolulu. To be honest, it didn’t look much like him; the statue was smaller and thinner than the real Akebono. In the village, people said that they respect him as a hero.

I have been to Hawaii many times, but this time, I still enjoyed experiences that I had never done before.

Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born in 1869 and died in 1948.

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