How Well Do We Know Each Other?

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Across
  1. 3. I used to work as a checkout operator at Countdown. They started a checkout operator of the year competition and I entered and won it. I got to wear a shiny little badge with my uniform under my name badge
  2. 6. My cousin was an All Black!
  3. 10. I got in trouble with my friends in Standard 2 for using our wooden class sliding door for a game of ‘Blind Date’
  4. 11. I had a cat named Donkey as a kid
  5. 12. I spotted Valerie Adams doing bench presses at the gym
  6. 13. I worked for an Engineering firm for 2 years while completing my honours degree in Environmental Management
  7. 16. My great uncle is Fred Hollows
  8. 17. In an early life, I managed strip clubs to make ends meet (no stripping myself!)
  9. 18. I have never broken a bone
  10. 20. I once was a hand and foot model for Zierra shoes
  11. 22. I used to have a horse called Amigo (not as friendly as his name made out, he used to bolt through the paddock, come to a screaming halt at the fence, which I’d go flying over)
Down
  1. 1. I don’t eat any type of seafood
  2. 2. I was a whiz at shorthand at secretarial school
  3. 4. I was once on a TV ad back in 2005 (it used to play just before the 6pm news)
  4. 5. In high school I was chosen to fly to Wellington to meet the prime minister due to my efforts organising the school and raising money for the 40hr famine
  5. 7. I still hold the best time records in swimming at my primary school
  6. 8. I once convinced my 3 friends to hitchhike in a strangers car because I looked in his backseat and said to them ‘I’ll be alright he has silverbeet in his groceries’
  7. 9. I’m kangaroo obsessed
  8. 12. I used to play the drums in my teens and was in a garage band
  9. 14. I have bought a pottery wheel to learn how to make my own plates and bowls
  10. 15. I hold a NZ Legal Executives Certificate
  11. 19. I was so excited to change my last name when I got married because I got teased a lot at school as my first and last name together sounded like a really bad swear word….
  12. 21. I lived on an island in the Hauraki Gulf for 14 years after my parents retired there and even had to ride the QuickCat to the city in labour in 1989
  13. 22. My Chinese Zodiac animal is a ‘Fire Snake’