Day #1

Hey everybody!

     My name is Dylan D'Andrea and I am currently a rising sophomore of Princess Anne High school in Virginia Beach, VA. This summer, I have to do a project for the Middle Years Program at my school and I thought that it would be fun to make a blog so people can keep up with my progress. For my project, I think I have decided to make an ukulele because I thought it would be really fun and I also lived in Hawaii for three years. The project had to be something that I was passionate about and Hawaii meant a lot to me during the time that I spent there. I learned numerous things about Hawaii and the Hawaiian culture and I felt that this blog would be a great way to share my piece of Hawaii with people all across the world.

The product which is the ukulele is supposed to relate to at least one of the five Areas of Interaction which are a big part of the Middle Years Program. They are Community and Service, Human Ingenuity, Health and Social Education, Approaches to Learning, and Environment. I decided that I would relate it to Human Ingenuity because I will be constructing my own ukulele and learn about the many techniques that the Hawaiians used to make these for hundreds of years. In order for other people to read about and see how to make an ukulele for yourself by a real person rather than just a book, I will be blogging almost every day about what I did on that day and I will do my best to take pictures of each activity. I will also teach things about the ukulele, its name, what wood is best to use, and many other things. I hope it will turn out good and play even better!

(Word of the day: Mahalo/Thank you)

Mahalo!