Chiara Collette, eighth grader at Jakarta International School, is on vacation on Kauai. She’s brought along Freddy the Frog, a stuffed, lime green animal that’s done more traveling around the world than most people do in a lifetime. Freddy’s journey
Chiara Collette, eighth grader at Jakarta International School, is on vacation on Kauai. She’s brought along Freddy the Frog, a stuffed, lime green animal that’s done more traveling around the world than most people do in a lifetime.
Freddy’s journey started in Linden, Michigan in early 2002, sent on his way by a student in Mrs. Towne’s class at Central Elementary School.
His first journey was to Edinburgh, Scotland, and then onto Auckland, New Zealand, with a look at the America’s Cup Race, and then back Scotland, this time to Dundee.
A traveler named Scott packed Freddy up and took him to Finland. Nicola Henressy, who was visiting Finland, tucked Freddy away and carried him on a flight to Swaziland, a nation near South Africa. He spent a day with the grade two class Nicola teaches at the Usutu Forest Primary School in Mhlamanyatsi (means a place where water buffalo drink).
He was passed on by mail to Karina Schultz, Nicola’s niece, who is lives in Jakarta, Indonesia. Freddy arrived in Indonesia on June 9, 2003. With Schultz, Freddy went to a horse riding competition, and attended her third grade class.
In what may be the last leg of Freddy’s global journey, the green cloth frog flew to Narita, Japan for an overnight stop, then onto Honolulu, arriving on Kauai last week.
Collette is sending Freddy in a Priority Mail box back to his faraway home in Michigan, completing the frog’s circle of the world.
