A question we were sometimes
asked when we told people we home educated was "How will you teach your daughter
to get on in the real world?" I believe our day to day lives have answered that
question.
Recently we joined the "Friends of Rotoiti", a group of volunteers who go out on a fortnightly basis in the winter and a weekly basis in the summer, to trap mainly rats in the Nelson Lakes National Park.
Amber is very interested in birds and she enjoys this activity not only for the social contact but because it helps to protect something which she is passionate about. Through our involvement with the group we have met interesting people, local people, people of mixed age, people who work for DOC, and people from other related organisations. We have been to meetings (very grown up) and experienced how things are done in a "worky, real worldy" environment.
We love the freedom to spend our
time on this, Amber's delight lead interest.
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