Today I was joined by two women who I greatly admire: Jacinta Were, and Kay Raseroka. They are incredibly powerful and well connected libraries and I was honoured to be working with them. They were here to help facilitate the workshop and learn a new workshop facilitation method…from me! After the day was over we had dinner together, and it was a lovely time with stories about how we became librarians, and all the funny things that had happened to us on our trips to where we are now.
With dinner we had a drink that is made with lemon, ginger and honey, and served hot. It is a wonderful energizing drink. I picked up my glass and there was a wasp swimming in my drink. He looked like a pretty good swimmer, but after a few minutes I decided that I didn’t want to see him drown, so I took my spoon and flipped him out. The next time I looked at my drink, there he was again, doing the back stroke this time. There are some people/wasps you apparently just can’t save. All in all, a great day.