Today the school had Duffy assembly in the hall. We had 3 guests introduced to us, their names were Tayla Hodson Tomokino and Matt Johnson and a lady from the Mainfreight team. Tayla and Matt introduced themselves on the stage and talked about what they do. They talked about how reading got them to where they are now. Tayla used to be a famous national champion BMX rider and international famous competitor as well. She started when she was only 6. Her highest accomplishment was second place. She stopped competing when she was in high school. Tayla is also a interviewer/commentator. Matt is a blues rugby team player, and matt also played league for Melbourne Storms. Matt plans on becoming a PE teacher so he has to reads a lot of sports book and rule books even while he was still a rugby player. Tayla plans on becoming a lawyer but she is an accountant right now. She doesn't always want to be a lawyer though, she also want to be a sports person and is planning to become a lawyer for sports reasons too so she had to read a lot of lawyer books and biography books get where she is at. After talking about themselves we got to ask them a few questions before the Duffy book boxes were handed out to the classes. They would be visiting classes as well. Tayla and the lady from the Mainfreight company came to our class and answered a few more of our questions. I think her story is a real inspiration to everyone and goes to show that reading is an important thing in life. Then the two ladies helped hand out the Duffy books to all the kids in the class.
