I haven’t done a photo spread in a few entries here, so I thought I’d post some photos from a work event I helped coordinate this past week: the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i’s first ever Pau Hana. In the literal translation of the Hawaiian, pau means done/finished, and hana means work, so pau hana means done with work – but, more loosely translated, it means happy hour/party time.

The Pau Hana was the brain child of my former CIS co-worker, Paula, who now works part-time as a community liaison for CRCH. She drafted a couple of us (Anne from Epidemiology, and me) to help out with the planning/implementation, and we drafted some other people from CRCH to play some live music, and somehow, through weeks of planning and bargaining and Pricebuster-ing, it all came together with lots of food, wine, beer and entertainment – and, oh, yeah, more than two dozen door prizes. Here’s how it looked:

Healthy pupu? Why, yes, of course. ;o)

Our Center director reads the name of a door prize winner.

Happy partygoers!

The planning committee.

From all accounts so far, everyone had a great time! Now if only everyone was scrambling to be on the next planning committee . . . ;o)