The speaker, thanks to Grace Fujiyoshi, for our April 8th meeting is Imelda Corpuz-Amano. She is originally from the northern Philippines and traveled to the islands in 1966 to settle in the peaceful plantation town of Waipahu. She is a product of Hawaii public schools: August Ahrens, Waipahu Middle and Waipahu HS. Imelda did her bachelor’s in Los Angeles and graduate work at UH Manoa, then retired as a secondary teacher and elementary school librarian (15 years upper ed and 15 years lower ed). She now enjoy traveling, food blogging, cooking, gardening, volunteering, reading and sharing children’s literature. She says "Kumusta! (Hi!) "