The Tarawera Trail

This 15km trail took us ~4 hours one way (from the Te Wairoa carpark to Hot Water Beach). Our friend Teresa joined us and we were lucky enough to get picked up by boat at Hot Water Beach from her partner Jodie (thanks!!)

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Samantha Berryman
Welcome to journalism. Everything you thought you knew about writing is wrong.

Want to know what it’s like entering into a career you didn’t study in school? Here’s my experience taking a journalism job with no experience in journalism what-so-ever. Kiss whatever writing rules you thought you knew out the door and say goodbye to sleep while you’re at it. You’ll be up until 11 p.m. and question every sentence, quotation, and period you write.

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Return to Coaching

While deciding where to train post-collegiately to work towards my half-hearted dream of becoming a professional pole vaulter, I emailed Coach Dave to ask him simply: Do you believe in me? He answered me this:

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Samantha Berryman