Across
- 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
- 6. My cousin was an All Black!
- 10. I got in trouble with my friends in Standard 2 for using our wooden class sliding door for a game of ‘Blind Date’
- 11. I had a cat named Donkey as a kid
- 12. I spotted Valerie Adams doing bench presses at the gym
- 13. I worked for an Engineering firm for 2 years while completing my honours degree in Environmental Management
- 16. My great uncle is Fred Hollows
- 17. In an early life, I managed strip clubs to make ends meet (no stripping myself!)
- 18. I have never broken a bone
- 20. I once was a hand and foot model for Zierra shoes
- 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. I don’t eat any type of seafood
- 2. I was a whiz at shorthand at secretarial school
- 4. I was once on a TV ad back in 2005 (it used to play just before the 6pm news)
- 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
- 7. I still hold the best time records in swimming at my primary school
- 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’
- 9. I’m kangaroo obsessed
- 12. I used to play the drums in my teens and was in a garage band
- 14. I have bought a pottery wheel to learn how to make my own plates and bowls
- 15. I hold a NZ Legal Executives Certificate
- 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….
- 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
- 22. My Chinese Zodiac animal is a ‘Fire Snake’
