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When Verona Holder moved to Hawaii in 2015 due to her husband’s placement in the military, she soon found a job as a fifth grade teacher at a public school in central Oahu.
Even when her husband’s active duty posting ended, she stayed in Hawaii with their children since she had grown so attached to her school and the students at Mililani Waena Elementary, where she still teaches today.
But the Florida native, who moved to Hawaii from California, remembers the early days when she was a newcomer and not knowing much about the islands’ unique culture and geography.
