Archive for February, 2011

Life goes on

Life has to go on as normal – or as near to normal as possible in a country where there has been a national disaster declared! On Friday at school we had a ‘teachers-only’ open mic session to encourage kids to take part in the fortnightly sessions.  The theory being that if teachers are willing [...]


Random Acts of Kindness

In times of disaster stories of random acts of kindness and bravery emerge from the rubble (literally in the case of Tuesday’s earthquake in Christchurch). Here’s my story about kindness. We found out yesterday that my Aunty Lee was living in central Christchurch and not further out away from quake damage. We had some anxious [...]