Today I cycled out to South Invercargill to answer the call for:
"Dads, Step-Dads,Uncles, Grandfathers, Brothers and Family Friends"
to read to the kids of Fernworth School.
There were plenty of us there, us Dads etc, all ages and all slightly nervous about what they'd volunteered for - reading stories in front of an audience. I met some good men there - I know they were good because they were there! I read 'How Tom Beat Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen" and the class I read to, my son Terry's crew, seemed to really enjoy it!
It was great to see the response from the blokes of South Invercargill and I applaud the staff of Fernworth for their great idea.
On the way home, fighting a moderately strong headwind that made hauling my bike trailer-with-billboards a bit more of a challenge than usual, I was hailed by Bev Winiata, who hosts a Community Radio programme and we made plans for an on-air chat sometime soon. She was on her way to interview Tim Shadbolt and promised to do a promo for me during the afternoon - thanks Bev!
There was lots of tooting as I made my way around the city and I'm going to take it all as positive in a thumbs-up sort of way but it may well have been a get-off-the-road message, who knows. Certainly there were lots of waves.
At least I think they were waving!
4 comments:
Thanks Dad, I had to work hard to remind myself wether I was a teacher or one of the kids :)
It was a great day and one I'll remember for a long time. I was most impressed!
What are you gonna say now, when one of your students is mucking around with a paper clip and a rubber band :-)
I'll say "Just one today? must be a bug going around"
Heh!
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