I’ve been a Youthline helpline counsellor now for about two years. This year I joined the mentors’ team and for the past six months I’ve taken on my own trainees, listening to their calls and mentoring them through their training to become solo phone counsellors themselves. It’s been an incredible amount of fun. The type…
I recently needed to go to the CBD in Auckland City and I noticed Santa and his reindeer are up on the Whitcoulls building, on Queen Street. I’d like to point out that this was on 12th November. A few weekends earlier, on Saturday 3 November, I went to a mall which was fully decked…
Emma Rogan, a New Zealand designer, read about the “100 Days of Design” project on the Design Observer Blog and instantly wanted to go to the Yale School of Art to take part. After finding out the fees were $US 55,000 and remembering her family and many other commitments at home, she decided to run…
They say you can’t choose your family, and I think in most cases you can’t choose your colleagues either. I’ve had a year of strange family behaviour and a feeling of being disowned, but amongst all of it I’ve found stability and solitude in my colleagues. Or friends who are colleagues = frolleagues!
