When a 9 a.m.-5 p.m. curfew goes into effect each night for the Hawaiian county of Kauai, Mayor Derek Kawakami gets bored – and posts videos on social media.
And his constituents? They’re entertained.
The videos, the 42-year-old mayor explains on Facebook, are meant to break the boredom together as a community. And they seem to have succeeded.
In the videos, which Kawakami posts to his personal Facebook and Instagram accounts, he demonstrates card tricks, how to make a face mask from a t-shirt and how to create a lava lamp.
The videos are a way for Kawakami to engage with his community and show them a side of himself he generally reserves for his friends and family, “I get to be who I am. I get to still be a mayor and hold the line and be stern and conduct business. But I get to release all of that and be my true self and it makes my heart smile that people accept me for who I am. And I think that’s the message I’m getting out to people that feel comfortable in your own skin. Don’t try to fit anybody’s mold and follow your own arrow.”
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