Working with Southland Girls’ High School on the 19th of May was a day stuffed full of unexpected delight.
I was made to feel welcome and cared for at multiple levels. That includes Buster Crabb in Dee St, all conversations shared, the sausage rolls at morning tea and the forced march up Bluff Hill in the drizzle and bluster on the way to the airport (I know this last trek is hard to imagine dear reader but I had established a degree of credibility across the day as a wannabe Southern woman and thus could not refuse to get out of the car at Bluff Hill as the Auckland woman inside me wanted to). All in all I had a fabulous day as the opening page for the parent community affirms
At lunchtime the school had arranged for me to have a phone interview with a journalist at the Invercargill Eye.
Talking to anyone over the phone is dangerous – there are so many nuances lost in a conversation where you can only hear the other person. Talking to a journalist over the phone offers an opportunity for even more precipitous conversation.
I was startled to see what Sarah McCarthy made of the interview – “Simple model supercharges learning” is a great SOLO headline. There are always going to be sentences that raise eyebrows but the interview captured many of the important ideas raised – it was a thoughtful piece of journalism. I suspect on balance that John Biggs would be pleased.
