Hawaii

Hawaii

Senators: CSIDOTI F7 (I), NSOTKA D4 (R)

Representatives: KBROBERG F4 (D)

Interesting facts about Hawaii:

- The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters: (CSIDOTI) Vowels - A, E, I, O, U (CSIDOTI) Consonants - H, K, L, M, N, P, W (CSIDOTI) - From east to west, hawaii is the widest state in the United States. (CISODTI) - The time runs two hours behind Pacific Standard Time and five hours behind Eastern Standard Time. (CSIDOTI) - The first settlers of Hawaii were seafares frm the Marquesas Islands, who arrived between the fith and eith centries AD. (CSIDOTI)

- Hawaii consists of 8 main islands: Nihhau, Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, and Big Island. (NSOTKA) - Hawaii was the 50th state admitted to the union on August 20th, 1959, and is nicknamed the "Alohah State." (NSOTKA) - Hawaii was formed thousands of years ago from under-sea volcanoes. (NSOTKA) - Hawaii has a land area of 6,423 square miles and a population of 1,262,840. (NSOTKA) -Major lake is the Salt Lake. Major rivers are the Wailuku River and the Anahulu River. (NSOTKA)

- Hawaii's economy builds mostly on coffe, macadamia nuts, bananas, papyas, fishing, defense industry and tourism. (KBROBERG) - The culture of the islands are a mix of Pacific islander, Asian and New Englang heritage (KBROBERG) - The cost of living on Hawaii could be between 30% to 60% higher than on the mainland (KBROBERG) - Over 1.2 million people live on Hawaii, around 1 million lives on Ohau. (KBROBERG) - 90% of the people living on Hawaii has health insurance. (KBROBERG)
 * 30% of the people work within tourism, almost 25% are in trade, 20% work for the government (mainly in the military), 3% work with manufacturing.
 * They celebrat the native Hawaiian culture by storytelling, dances (such as the hula) and costumes.(KBROBERG)