for all my Dancing friends

single ladies

ha

Ha, Look how huge this avocado my co-worker gave me is. its like eating a cantelope compared to utah avocados

workin man

This morning i got up at 4:15 like usual, put on my trashbag rain poncho and braved the 4 inch an hour rain to get to my bus stop. I got to work at 6 and worked till about 2pm when my co worker called in and said she was stranded in honolulu and couldnt come in to work. I stayed for her for the next 4 hours till 6, then Delphine my co-worker told me i could go home and that she would just close the store. You've never seen people angry like the ones that come knocking on a closed 7-elevens doors. My sweet grandma turns 80 tomorrow so i'm gonna go to the beach in the morning and take some pictures and give her a call. happy birthday grandma

This is what i did today

Merry Christmas

It's a very small world

Tonight i missed the bus by 5 minutes so i had to wait an hour for the last bus. Thirty minutes into my sitting around drinking coke a lady in a truck pulled up and said, "Hey brudda, where you go?" I told her kahuku and she said hop in, so i did. She introduced herself as mrs Jenkins and i said, "cool, my name is Tyler Jenkins". She had 5 children and im oldest of 5 children. After a nice 30 minute ride she dropped me off in kahuku and that's my night.

NERD

how do you guys like the gotee. i got back from the beach and was kinda bored so i took a shower and shaved out a curt cobain gotee.

My Hana

For anybody that is curious this is my address

56-240 Leleuli street
Kahuku, Hawaii 96731

Thompsons... a gift from the gods

Just as i am scraping the last out of the jar of peanut butter that has been sustaining me for the last week my roomate zondre knocks on my door and say; "Tyler, you've got a package." here is what i find.

Thanks Dad

a lotta sittin around

Tonight i got off work at 10pm missed the bus by like 3 minutes so i sat around and talked to a phillipino lady that runs a little hygenic shop across the street from 7-eleven. we talked till about 11, then i took the bus up to kahuku. On the bus i talked to a crazy man that didnt know where he was going and didnt have any shoes or shirt, that took about an hour. now im home and check out the beard!!!!111

also: I dont care how amazing Led Zeppelin is, its not Led Zeppelin if the band doesnt have Robert Plant. Bringing a new singer on for some concerts would be heresy!

Friday cant come soon enough for me lol

edit: had to bum bus fare off of the flower dealers that hang out under the banyon tree today. nice guys but i think im in their debt now lol.

KAHUKU BEACH

well my mom woke me up this morning asking me if my friend brauc was in the hospital for a drug overdose. i said i didnt know but would call and find out. i called him and he was fine, kinda pissed that i had woken him up on his day off but as supprised as i was to hear he was supposed to be in the hospital lol. who knows how crazy rumors like this get started.
so there i was, awake too early. i had 3 hours till work and i thought, "ive never been to the kahuku beach". so after i had jumped 3 fences and walked through a little jungle and a golf course i arrived... the kahuku beach is nothing to write home about. there's a slow shallow reef so the waves are small and turbulant, not good for swimming at all. the shore is kinda rocky and odd looking and the beach is kinda covered in shrubbery. here's some pictures from my journey. notice my picture of the amazing fairway at the golfcourse and of Kahuku's one and only stop light.

pictures some

oh my what a handsome beard you've got

here's my house, check out the spooky halloween decorations

here's my street

here's a field by my house that i walk through every day

here's a fly on a bench at the bus stop

here's my view from the bus stop

here's the banyan tree across the street from 7-eleven

(you can see some drug dealers on the left pretending to sell birds of paradise)

here's my 7-eleven

UPDATE

well i just got off a swing shift, got home at midnight and im headed out for the morning shift at 4am so im just gonna pull an all nighter but i found out today that adobo the dog is just a freakishly big doberman. his ears arent clipped which i like. my dad just fed-ex'ed my charger to me so as soon as i get it i'll take some pictures of this rain and the beach.

My First Work Day

"Hello and welcome 7-Eleven", is what came out of my mouth about 500 times today. wow I never realized how busy a 7-eleven could be. the sevenelevn i work at is the Kahaluu location if you want to google it. all in all it went pretty good, lots of customers and not too many mistakes, and most importantly... a laid back, steady job. as for right now im headed up to pipeline to do some body surfing in some 9 footers woot!

ya like dags?

hey everybody, today i got up, walked down to the local shrimp farm and had a breakfast of grilled shrimp and mahimahi. then i went to pipeline beach and watched some surfing and did some body surfing myself. i gotta tell ya, these waves are crazy!!!!111 today they were breaking at about 8 feet so it was kinda scary. here's a picuture of one of my roomates, his name is Adobo.

MY NEW PLACE

Hey everybody I just wanted to jump on and tell you all i moved into my new place! I'm living in Kahuku, a small town on the north eastern shore about 15 minutes from pipeline beach. My roomates are 2 guys who i presume are gay but not together, who knows cause im not asking. they have a huge dog which kinda looks like a doberman pincer but i think its too big to be on, who knows. I think i left my camera charger in Utah so i wont be able to post pictures for a while. I went swimming for the first time 2 days ago, yeah yeah i know its unbelieveable that ive been here for a month and 2 days ago was my first swim but i wanted to stay on task until i had a place to stay and a job. more updates soon

a few pictures

the flowerpatch people that i saw last

hey look!!!! my last pie experiance

me and my bro ther

my stuff as i head out on a great journey

hey look, a bus in hawaii going to salt lake, woohoo

more picturalas commin soon

"we could use a little more color up here"

If you're confused by the title of this post well so was i when the manager at Turtle Bay spoke it to me. I gave him a weird look and he said "not to sound racist but with all the hawaiians working up here it might be good to get a couple Haoles working here too". the guys was hawaiian himself so i just kinda laughed and he said he'd call me.

I just thought i should start posting before i start forgetting whats happened so far in hawaii. The weather is wonderful, 80 degrees every day. There's always a light breeze so even though its crazy humid, its wonderful. Not as much mean spirited Raceism like a few people warned me but its deffinately there. The job search is horrible though, in Honolulu everybody wants you to speak japanese, in Laie getting a job is impossible if you're not a BYU student and everywhere else they want you to be Hawaiian.

I'm not discouraged at all though, i knew it would be hard so I'll just keep at it full steam ahead.

honalulu

I have arrived...

"Maybe Just Once"

I can't believe that what I feel is finally happening to me.make it hurt.and point the finger at my insecurities.well I guess I just don't understand about those complexities in your mind.and I guess I just don't understand why this world seems so unkind.

maybe. maybe just once. I get what's coming.maybe. maybe just once. I get what's coming to me.so once again the way you feel will never ever stay the same.and I'm to blame.I wonder just who made the rules up for this game.well I guess I just don't understand about what you want and what you need.and I guess I just don't understand about why this is how it has to be.

you sat down on this bed and you said"Christ, what the hell do you think this place is?"you know.he just couldn't believe it!and I said"I don't know but it sure is something different"so go ahead.you say those thousand things you think you have to say.look at me.and tell me love's not such a hard word anyway.well how can you count on me I thought you realized for sure.and how can you just believe.I thought I deserved a little more.

oh God.oh what's coming to me.

such an amazing song

Anatomy of a Heart Attack

They call it a Zappi

ooo that's creepy i love it

ooo that's creepy i love it

Monster Face

Durka-Dur Viewmont

my 5 year reunion happened a friday or so ago. it made me feel good about not being married and chillined like most were. I got a sweet shirt for showing up. Apparently whoever made the shirt didnt pass engrish.

Death By a B.S.E.

Hunger took me in the dark of the night.

Stumbling off of the couch i headed for the fridgidare

The Creation that took place that night was deadly...

Bacon, Steak, Egg and cheese all on a Buttery Croissant

I admit, it took me...

Some Powell

Green shoots of new life emerge from the scorched earth.
They stake their claim in the same earth their ancestors once did.
The fire was only a short intermission of death between two acts of life.