October 14, 2007 (Day 3)

The flight to Honolulu was about 6 ½ hours; it was a very long flight. While we were on the plane, I worked on memorizing my speech most of the time. Then Jacqueline came back and asked me if I could work on the script for FGM because Beverly Keever, the author of News Zero, wanted to look at it. I couldn’t find it saved anywhere, so I worked on it from scratch. It took up almost the rest of the entire flight. I couldn’t remember everything so I left a few blanks and asked Shelby to finish it up for me. We had to sit back down then because we were getting ready to land, so Shelby didn’t actually get to finish it. When we landed Mr. Fielding ran off to try to find us a taxi. He also called the people that we were supposed to be meeting with and Robert Barclay, author of Melal, actually offered to come and pick us up, which was really nice. He took us out to eat and then he showed us over to the beach. We stayed there for about 5 minutes or so, we took a few pictures and that was about it. Then he took us to our Hostel to drop us off. He was really nice and was pretty interesting to talk to. He told us about how someone is trying to make his book into a movie, but it’s in the early stages right now and he is going to go down with the director to the Marshall Islands to look around Ebeye and maybe see if there is anyone to cast in the movie. When we got to the hostel, it wasn’t actually open yet. We decided to just set our stuff there for the time being and go explore for a little bit. But before we left I spotted a little green gecko on the wall, it was so cool and I took pictures of it. Then we went out and walked around for a little bit. We came to this little bookstore that Mr. Fielding had been to before called Revolution Books. They had some really cool books in there. Most of the books in there were from opposing viewpoint of the US Government and President Bush’s administration. We bought a few books but then we had to hurry because we were supposed to meet with Daniel Kelin, author of Marhsall Islands Legends and Stories, at Volcano Joe’s, a small coffee shop. We got there and Dan was a really nice guy also. We started our interview with him. He told us a lot about Darlene and about Youth to Youth and he spoke very highly of them and told us about all of the performances they had done over the years. He took us over to a store do that we could stock up on video camera tapes and batteries. Then he took us over to his apartment for a minute so he could run upstairs and grab a copy of his other book and sold it to Mr. Fielding. Then he drove us back to our hostel so that we could check in. We got settled in to our rooms and we met a woman who had been staying there for several days waiting for her daughter to come in from Iraq. Mr. Fielding went and called Beverly Keever and she wanted us to video tape her and record her when we interviewed her. We went back to Volcano Joe’s to have some dinner before we met up with her. Beverly showed up and we went over to the library for the interview. She really knew a lot about the nuclear testing as well as other information of ‘nuclear testing’ else where in the USA. Her interview took up about an hour. She told us all about different events that had to do with nuclear testing all around the US, we could tell that she was very interested in the subject and was glad that young people, Shelby and I, were taking the time to research and become interested into the topic as well. When we were done we walked her back to her car and then we headed back to the hostel. We finished settling into our rooms and Shelby and I went up to take showers. We had to be up early to leave very early the next day so we went to bed pretty early.