☃️My Icy Adventure to Austria☃️

Okay! So this is the LAST week of my blogging as my time in Austria is coming to an end very soon 🤩.  This week I have decided to record my every day movement until I fly out from Vienna Airport.  The recording will be edited and published sometime later when I get home.  I cannot believe it is almost time to go home.  This past week has been another full on funfil week. My adventure has involved a trip to Salzburg the home of Mozart and a stop over in Linz to catch up with other family members.  My host sister Ingrid invited me on semester break trip to Linz with her children so that was awesome. So because it was semester break we had a week off school and Ingrid's children came and stayed.   I spent the entire weekend with two of my host sisters children which was fun because they kept me occupied and they are very talkative even though there is the language barrier.  I must admit it has been hard and I get frustrated because they spea...

Kaifofo & Sisimata Tuhega.   17 days and I leave for Austria and as I am about to leave I discover my ancestral roots to Germany.  I have known from my Nena that her grandfather had German roots however I have never been told to great detail about this.  Apparently very few family members were told the story.  So here goes the version I have stumbled upon. My Nena Evo's biological mother is Kelenamata also known as Pisa . Her parents were Kaifofo Tuhega of Tuapa and Sisimata Ikitogia of Makefu.  Very recently I have discovered that Great Great Grandad Kaifofo Tuhega's father was either a Missionary or a German sailor by the name of Keeling.  There were two stories of how he came into contact with our Nena Fakatohesifa.  This piece of the puzzle was said to have been written by the late Afele Paea who married one of Kaifofo's daughters and we thank him for doing that with Kaifofo because that is how I have stumbled across this piece of preci...