Fetu's Cottage

When you begin walking up to Fetu’s cottage you would begin to think you are walking into another world. To better accommodate his pet sea turtle the ground around his house and yard is almost completely composed of soft white sand, and tall palm trees as well as other native Hawaiian plants which are planted both around the house and in the backyard. Fetu decided to keep his home more traditional, at least on the outside, to help himself stay more intune with his homeland and his traditional life back at his family home. In doing so, Fetu’s house is built with the outside design of the tradition fale afolau, or longhouse, but it is built in the more modern sense that is seen in the Samoan culture now, and is rectangular, rather than the old oval shape. The porch of the house wraps around to the side where there are a few chairs situated around a small wooden coffee table, and a sandy walkway into the Hawaiian foliage and away from the house. Behind the chairs is a sliding glass door, which opens up into the open style living room and kitchen, the living room has another sliding glass door that leads to the backyard as well. The inside of the house is more modern and has the modern architecture that Fetu is more accustomed to after years of living in Toronto. The living room has a huge off-white, L-shaped couch with a coffee table in front of it and two separate tan leather chairs that have an end table situated between them. On the wall facing the couch and two chairs is an wall mounted flat screen TV, and beneath the flat screen TV is a fireplace that sits on a raised black granite shelf. The living room is connected to the kitchen with just a small step up, Fetu likes the open design so he decided to keep it, and the kitchen is nestled nicely behind the couch. Cabinets are situated wherever Fetu could find a place for them, above the fridge, below and above the oven and microwave, which are stacked on top of one another and wall mounted. Next to the oven and microwave is the stainless steel fridge, separated by a bit of granite counter space and more cabinets. The table top stove and all the cabinets that surround it sit opposite the table top sink, and a dishwasher nestled in between some of the other cabinets. A dark door leads to a home office space that Fetu put in so students could come to his cottage for tutoring and have a private, quiet place to study and learn what they couldn’t quite grasp in class. There is loads of counter space and cabinets as well, but most of the cabinets contain books that Fetu has collected over the years. There is a desktop computer that Fetu uses to plan out his lessons and his own other work, as well as a laptop that he allows students to use in order to do assignments if they wish to do so. The office is mainly for when Fetu can’t be at the main campus because of his requirements to keep Trident healthy and spend time with the sea turtle so he doesn’t get lonely. If you go back to the kitchen there is an open hallway that leads to Fetu’s bedroom, it has one beautifully designed black wall, and a low platform King size bed, with two end tables on each side. The door beside the bed leads to the bathroom, a white tiled floor, and impossibly dark green tiles are stuck to the wall, and there’s a wooden counter with bronze sinks and a mirror hanging on the wall. A sliding glass door opens to the outside where a bathtub sits outside with an outside shower head as well as an inside one. When you go back to the bedroom there is another sliding glass door that leads to the backyard, with its all white sand and natural Hawaiian foliage, with a beach entry pool that is in a lagoon style. The pool is saltwater, and the exact formula needed for marine animals. It is 10 feet by 20 feet and goes down 30 feet deep, holding approximately 45,000 gallons of water and is where Trident the three-flippered, rescued, Green Sea Turtle lives. This is also where Fetu uses most of his aquatic powers, spending almost all of his free time with Trident in his pool enclosure.