Just recently I was on the phone with my cousin (because of our age difference I call her Aunty) Siutu. She shared with me of our namesake. The story starts off like this...
The time period is during World War Two it was a time when the South Pacific was flooded with Germans and Europeans in general. Siutu's father was a German solider aiding the U.S. via Samoa. Born in Satapuala a village situated on the north west coast of Upolu island in Samoa, Siutu adorns the world with her beauty as an afakasi and it doesn't stop there she is born as an albino child.
During this time to be afakasi was not openly accepted and she felt it and heard it growing up. Not being accepted by the very blood that ran in her veins, she left her village to seek out a place where she would be happy and allowed to live without rude comments or gestures from family members. Siutu sets out for Upolu the captial of Western Samoa there she will take a leap of faith.
Thinking to herself not just in her mind but in her heart of the things she had been through and not wanting to go back home... her mind is set to find a place and a people who will accept her as she is and allow her to call that place home. Siutu leaves Upolu with her Bible strapped to her head in a single man canoe and paddles hoping to land somewhere... anywhere...
Neiafu, Vava'u Tonga is where she finds herself...
To be continued =)
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