My first visit was to Heaton Normal Intermediate School. This was a shared talk with Eileen to a "self-selected group" of about 30 students who were super attentive and had some great questions. I told them that I also went to a Normal Intermediate School for one year in Auckland, and that we had separate playgrounds for boys and girls. They looked astonished at such a quaint idea!
Next for me was Darfield High School and then Ashburton Netherby School, while the others visited St Alban's Primary, Elmwood Normal School, Darfield Primary School, Ashburton College and Ashburton Christian School. The time spent in the van was great for debriefing each other about our sessions and what went well or especially well (or sometimes not quite so well!)
We also enjoyed our coffee stops - thanks to teachers and librarians who gave us recommendations for good places to try, and we even managed to fit in a stop at the Temuka shop on the way to Timaru.
One of my favourite parts of Thursday was an early morning, pre-breakfast walk around Christchurch. I've seen the 185 Chairs memorial before, but it is always very moving.
I also found these rabbits nibbling concernedly on the other side of a fence in an empty lot, and then hopping along the pavement in front of me. Apparently other people have spotted them too!
Going for an afternoon walk in Timaru around Caroline Bay was another treat, even if we were too tired to come back later to watch the penguins returning home.
Questions of the day:
- Have you convinced anyone in your family to be a writer?
- Have you ever thought of doing anything different?
- Would you rather be an author or an illustrator?
- Do you wait for inspiration?
- Have you written any Christmas stories? Or any stories set in Germany in World War Two? Any books set overseas? Any books with you or your family in them? (very precise requests)
- How many schools have you been to?
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