I am tutor to a group of people who want to gain skills in the hospitality sector, as well as foundation life skills. The programme is designed for 'disengaged youth'. These are people between the ages of 16 and 19 who are not engaged with education or employment. The range of the programme has been expanded to allow people older than 19 to participate. In some ways this role is a good fit for my skills and attributes. In particular it allows me to apply my innovative and activity orientated teaching approaches. It also draws on my knowledge of foundation skills, including communication and number skills. The match is not good in that my skills and knowledge in hospitality are not strong. I am creating strategies to manage and improve this area of my enactment of the role.

I am still an employee with this very excellent organisation, even though a move to a different locality, and other events, has led to my being inactive with the organisation at present. This is still valid: I have moved over to a company where the general ethos and approach to care of people with substantial barriers to achieving what they want in life is more in line with my own philosophy. Community Connections are a non-profit providing a range of care services. I am engaged with both residential care and assistance to people living independently and needing support with aspects of the management of their lives.

My time is now mostly taken up with my salaried work.I am undertaking a planned process to find more project work, in protection of the environment, in development of alternatives to the current economic authodoxies, in alternative approaches to education and in development of people through providing experiences which deepen self-knowledge and build confidence. I plan to again put to good use my technical skills and my exceptional teaching and facilitation and project management abilities. I am keen to stay engaged, as far as possible, in all my work, with my immediate community.

This now not an area of activity for me. I remain grateful for the activity I was able to undertake prompted by chalkle. chalkle brought me together with people who are interested in astronomy, especially in finding out about how big and beautiful is our Cosmos. I ran some classes with my friend and contact Frank Andrews, who is a professional astronomer. I have the knowledge to bring forward some of the technical information we share, and in our teaching together I used my innovative approach to teaching to make sure that learning was 'memorable', in every sense. I now live in Central Hawke's Bay.