by Samantha Frearson-Tubito | Apr 10, 2018 | Europe
Sam was looking at one of her four children playing soccer in the pouring rain. It was 7.30am. Pitch dark. Freezing cold. She was wondering to herself who in their right mind would make a bunch of five year olds play a soccer game at this time of the morning…and when...
by Samantha Frearson-Tubito | Mar 16, 2018 | Africa
I remember. Cecile, our nanny. Her full embrace. Her kindness. Her infectious bright laugh. I wondered where she lived. Did she have her own family, her own children? The musty smell of the clapped out non-descript colored, noisy, Renault 4. It felt safe. The Sabena...
by Samantha Frearson-Tubito | Mar 14, 2018 | Africa
We were unpacking boxes. We had just moved to Lusaka. From Hong Kong. The rain pelted down. Dad and I sat together at the outside bar of our new home. The bar was nestled in the corner of the terrace overlooking a kidney-shaped swimming pool. Wellie was nuzzling at...
by Samantha Frearson-Tubito | Feb 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
I have been a traveler all my life. Day one started off on a small West Indian island; St. Kitts & Nevis. My parents then moved me around to Bordeaux, France, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly known as Zaire,) and Abidjan in...
by Samantha Frearson-Tubito | Feb 17, 2018 | Asia
Gaien-Nishi-Dori is it’s usual hustle and bustle. One of the main arteries weaving it’s way around down-town Tokyo. Green, yellow, and black taxis stopping and starting, picking up and dropping off at every corner. Two airport limousine buses are parked outside the...
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