Who are the students you are helping?

The Polynesian Cultural Center has a very special Sprit to it too.  In fact, the whole Laie area has a very special Spirit to it.  It is due partly to the Temple being here and everything pointing to it; the BYU Hawaii and the Polynesian Cultural Center.  When you walk the area, you feel it.

This is the view walking outside my office on a daily basis and what I see.  Beautiful.  This is a beautiful place.

The students are beautiful too.  Most of the students working at the PCC are iWorks.  As you look at the Canoe Pageant shown below, keep in mind that most of the students are ours.  They work three years to obtain their degree, and then return home to their country and invest at least three years to the building of their homeland with their newly acquired talents.  As a result of going back; their education is paid.  Not to say it is easy.  They don't return home in the three years there and they continually go to school until finished.  Probably the biggest shock is coming to Hawaii after growing up on an island for most of them.  You have to admire them. They are a determined, focused, studious group, that also like to have fun and show off their talents at the Polynesian Cultural Center.