Club member present to hear the two girls from Rotorua Girls High’s leadership team talk to us about their hopes, plans and dreams for the future, their experiences of growing up in Rotorua, and what might be needed to make this place their forever home were given a real treat.
Keely, the eldest in a family of 4 (I think) is keen ultimately to set up her own business but wants to travel to Australia first.
Maddox has a goal of becoming a marine biologist and next year she’ll most likely be off to Otago University. (I don’t know that Rotorua is quite the ideal ‘forever’ home for a marine biologist – even if home for the bulk of one’s family - but I do know that with our lakes, rivers and streams there’s a need for fresh-water biologists). use it is a tourist town, young people can get part time work.
It was great hear from Keely, (and Maddox too), that one of the good things about Rotorua was its friendliness and the ease with which, because it is a tourist town, young people can get part time work.
However, as I think Keely said, one of the things that Rotorua does need to do if it is to attract people back to the area after they’ve been trained, and seen the world, is develop a greater depth to the types of (high value) sectors/industries associated with the town. I agree and I’m certain I speak for everyone in the Club when I wish Keely & Maddox the very best for their futures and say that we’re liking forward to hearing from them both again at the end of a year of leadership at Rotorua Girls.
(And yes, we’ll make certain to arrange there will be ice-cream for desert again).