I lived in a sleeping bag in a room with 3 other med students - we paid 10 bucks a night in rent & we almost didm't need blankets it was so perfect in temperature. The windsurfing in Kailua Bay is considered one of the best spots in the world, but not the best place for a beginner like me to learn. My only complaint with it was that it was always cloudy. But, a 25 minute drive over to Waikiki was all it took to find the sun.
We subsisted on Mai Tai's and the pineapples that came form them as the main part of our diet. The bars didn't close until 3AM, and a couple of hours sleep before going off to be trained by the cream of the Army medical crop. My first day there, I encountered my old RA from ND who was my chief resident. I was doing a radiology rotation, and the teaching went on from 8 until noon and it was fabulous.
We were in the library at about 1 PM studying after our first morning, and he came in and asked me what I was doing there. When I told him, he said,"don't worry, we'll train you to know everything you need to know in the AM, but the beaches are filling up, so you better get going".
We ended up sleeping in the sun until evening, Mai Tai's for dinner, bars until 3AM short nap, off to work - rinse lather repeat.
The most fun time of my single life.