Floor Is Lava!

SPOILER ALERT - In today's episode of Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities, Su Mo & Bai Ying enter the Monument of Fallen Tears where the Splitting Sword is housed. And the floor is lava! I am wondering, is that a thing with children in China? Or was it just something that the show runners thought would be cool? In Hawaiʻi, Floor is Lava is a game that children play; or at least we did in my family. So is it a thing in places that have active volcanoes? Or perhaps a US thing because of volcanoes in Hawaiʻi? Wondering how widespread it might be & if it might be multinational? Did you play Floor Is Lava? Let me know in the comments, yes or no, & where. Coincidentally, Episode 49 of the eruption of Kīlauea started this morning about 9:30. So the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu crater really is lava!

Floor is lava!

Episode 49.

I met up with nā hoa hānau Beryl, Galen, & Alisha at Motek Bakery for lunch. The breakfast special was lox & bagels, that's what Beryl & Galen had. Alisha & I opted for the mushroom & Gruyere panini; the sandwich kind, not the cactus kind... After lunch they went to the Pololū Valley viewpoint. Then we met up again at Our Founding Farmers for ice cream! Beryl had My Neighbor's Lemons, Alisha had Surinam Cherry, Galen had Pralines & Cream, & I had Mango. 

(L-R) Beryl, Galen, & Alisha having lunch at Motek Bakery.

Lox & bagels.

Mushroom panini.

Since I figured out how to turn on the microphone, I started the speaking practice. Their attaboys seem to be given out quite freely. I even get them when I am mispronouncing half the words! I'm not sure why they don't tell me to try harder. Or maybe that's just my expectation of what they should be telling me based on growing up in an Asian household? (Duolingo is an American company whose founders have a European background.) At any rate, I have now reached Level 9 in Mandarin!

The blue ones are the correct ones.

Still getting most words right.

It still thinks I'm awesome when I get half wrong?

I still managed to get up to Level 9.

 

The microphone does not seem to do as well on the ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi though. I know I pronounced this sentence correctly, but it sure messed up what it thought I said. Kinda reminds me of how Google Maps mispronounces Hawaiian street names! Perhaps it is listening for Mandarin words & is getting confused when it hears ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi?

Episode 49 of the eruption of Kīlauea started this morning at 9:32; it ended about 5:05 pm after about 7.5 hours. The last dozen or so episodes have generally been lasting for 12 hours or less.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Mary Kay & Brian!