Film Clip of Emily Emu Chick

                      Film Clip of Emily Emu Chick

On Friday March the 4th I visited the Orbost Primary School and had a great time with all the students.  We illustrated, composed poems, made up stories and acted out our stories.

After lunch a new program of activities kicked off and I found myself in the midst of an art class - Helen my illustrator will be laughing loudly. We sketched Emus using her beautiful pastel drawings as inspiration. 

My emu was very basic - just shapes really - then the students and teacher created beautiful art works in their brand-spanking-new sketch pads while I gave them a run down on emu facts.

Enjoy this reading of the first two pages of Emily Emu Chick by Shara - one of the talented students in the art class - her school friends are with her to give moral support - she reads very well!  Her school is very proud of her efforts.

If you would like to purchase a copy of Emily Emu Chick just email me at susiesarah@hotmail.com.au and I will send you a list of your local outlets.

 

Channel 9 TV - my 5 minutes of fame!

Vanessa Milton ABC Open Producer - PS I only just discovered that your story was featured on the main page of The Drum - this is a high profile part of the ABC News site, they only pick one of the Open Drum stories to feature, and you’re it!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-25/sarah-open-drum-keeping-busy-is-the-key-to-%27retirement%27/7199318

 

It all happened last week after a phone call from Channel 9 to appear on their morning program with David and Sonja - Annabelle the producer found my article for ABC Open on The Drum - I didn't realise until Vanessa contacted me that it had been on the front page of their website - amazing.

So off to Canberra, after a morning at the Wyndham market, to stay in a swanky hotel not far from Parliament House where channel 9 have a studio.

 

I wish I had photographed that studio - it was a blackened room filled with cameras - the backdrop behind me was superimposed and all I saw was a grotty desk with a red button "push it love if you can't hear well enough" - a hairy hair brush which I thought must have been used for their dogs and in front of me a square screen of light - which I stared at like a rabbit in the spotlight - that's where the camera is.  Hundreds of miles away in Sydney were the rest of the people I was talking to - I couldn't see them which was rather disconcerting. 

 

So hours of travel to Canberra, hours of travel home and all for this short segment which was wonderful and all scripted - I still have that script to prove to students in schools I visit that everything is set out - it was certainly a great help and my words were taken from the ABC story and a phone call I'd had with Annabelle - all very professional and set out to help me relax.

 

I left Canberra for home then headed off to Buchan for my first school with 30 students to visit followed by a day with students at Orbost Primary School and calls to Paynesville and my bookstores in Bairnsdale and Lakes Entrance.  Next week I'm on the road again visiting schools at Paynesville, Omeo and Swifts Creek!