Enjoy the area where we live

The area where I grew up is located on the hill, and was land even in 5000 years ago when sea level was 0 or 3.0 m higher than now. In that era, therefore, there were many villages around current my parents’ home town. So once we dug the backyard of elementary school, we could easily found earthenware and shells dumped in over 2500 or 3000 years ago. We used to go down the hill by bike to go to swimming pool in next town. It meant that we went down into “ancient ocean” by bike. What a romantic events we had there. Even in Tokyo city, there are many vestige; landform made through Holocene, slopes and bridges depicted in popular novels published in 150 or 200 years ago, and a part of buildings constructed over 300 years ago. So knowledge about the history of hometown makes us more enjoyable.
The 400-page reference book with many photos, which depicted history, culture and nature of my town, Moiliili, was published in last February (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Feb/17/il/FP602170318.html). I purchased this book soon. This book really encourages me to walk around this area thinking about the people’s life of 100 years ago. But I’m sorry that I have another 2 weeks to stay here.