It’s true—Black Friday alone attracts more people than a year’s worth of visitors to Disneyland. According to Tom Risen in The U.S News and World Report, Black Friday attracts an average of approximately 133 million people to shop for the cheapest deals annually. This year, a record number of people—171 million— hit the stores and …
During the first quarter of the 2017-18 school year, many students teams competed in HBA's annual dodgeball intramural tournament. The student council hosted the intramural in the gym during lunch, where many teams battled for first place. In a surprising turn of events, the sophomore team NaCl (the chemical formula for salt) beat out all …
If you’re reading this, it's pretty likely that you own either an Apple or Samsung mobile phone. These two companies have painstakingly cultivated namebrands that have contributed to the explosive growth of phone sales worldwide. However, there are many hidden mobile phone gems on the market that offer comparable or better features than Apple or …
On Thursday, August 30, the seventh grade class went on their first middle school camp held at the Pu’u Kahea Baptist Conference Center in Waianae, Hawaii. “Good news, bad news, good news” was the theme of 2017's three-day, two-night seventh grade camp. Because there are usually a significant number of new students entering seventh grade …
I’m a junior, but I still remember my first day of high school as if it was yesterday. My life was incredibly different back then, but at the same time, I have remained the same person. My mindset hasn’t changed much; I still find myself questioning what I will be doing, how will I be …
The familiar ding of a cooking timer accompanied by the evocative aroma of freshly-made baked goods awakens everyone’s inner five-year-old instinct to frantically run to the radiating oven to see what kind of sweet treat awaits them. Since the dawn of time, while cooking methods and diets have evolved, the appeal and comfort of good …
On February 8, HBA started off the first day of the Chinese New Year with the banging of a gong. During lunch, the Gee Yung International Martial Arts Dragon and Lion Dance Association gave a lion dance performance for teachers, students, and faculty of the middle and high school. Among the lion dancers were four …
For most students at HBA, winter break served as a reprieve from school work and an excuse to sleep in. However, on December 28 to 29, sophomore Jalen Sur managed to complete 24 consecutive hours of the online vocabulary enhancement program, Membean, and raised over two-hundred dollars for Hawaii Literacy. Under the hashtags #waterthebean and …
