Return To Kamehameha Ukulele

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​Return To Kamehameha Ukulele

...Continued from 4/21/2024:
      The day Tom and I  arrived in Honolulu, Saturday, March 23,  we took a walk along the beach, then headed towards downtown Waikiki (see post from 4/15/2024, https://www.ailantha.com/blog/if-you-wanna-be-where-the-people-are-come-to-honolulu-during-spring-break). 

      Along our way we passed the Kamehameha Ukulele store,

....where last year I began my journey to becoming a ukulele player, thanks to Ron, 
a college student whose evening job was sales clerking and teaching lessons for Kamehameha Ukulele, 

...and who agreed to give me an immersive ukulele lesson each day for my five remaining days in Honolulu (see post from 5/9/2023 https://www.ailantha.com/blog/i-ukulelist).

      Now I wanted to go inside and see if my teacher was still there. I wanted to thank him and let him know how much I loved playing my ukulele, both solo and with my two Ohio ukulele groups, the Licking County Ukulele Club,

...and the Buckeye Ukulele Society.

        And also, if possible, I wanted to play for my teacher my favorite ukulele song, "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire," an old tune from the 1930's sung by a golden-voiced African American group of that time called The Ink Spots, 

...that I love playing on my ukulele.

        We went into the ukulele store and Ron wasn't there, but the young sales clerk who was informed us that Ron would be working the following night at the Kamehameha store at the Waikiki Marriott.
         And so the next evening Tom and I walked - and I toted my ukulele - the mile from our Hotel, the Hale Koa, through downtown Waikiki along Kalakaua Avenue, 

...to the Marriott Resort &Spa.

     When we found the Kamehameha Ukulele Store inside the hotel we could see through the glass front that Ron was teaching a group class, and so we sat in the lobby for a while where we enjoyed listening to a singer performing Hawaiian songs.

        "I knew it was you!" Ron laughed when we entered the store. His friend from the other store had texted him and told him that a couple of folks were looking for him, apparently giving him a pretty good description of us.  
        As Ron was agreeable to hearing me play, I pulled out my uke and played "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire."  To my surprise, he said he'd like to learn the song. And so I told him I'd send him the music and we made an appointment for me to meet him at the Kamehameha store at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, which happens to be next door to the Hale Koa, 

...and where Ron would be working the following Tuesday evening, at which time I'd teach him to play the song.
​       I showed up on Tuesday at the store with my ukulele and, wonder of wonder, I who was the student one year ago,

...was this time the teacher.

       It was so neat.