Simon Angelo: Undervalued Situations

Simon Angelo: Undervalued Situations

‘Is there a situation you have completely regretted?’ It was my first year at high school. Our English teacher was a young woman that some of the boys had a crush on. She was discussing a situation in a novel we were studying. I don’t remember the book exactly. But I do remember asking her that same question. She hesitated, wondering whether to tell us the story or not. Then she took us to the back blocks of Taranaki, where she’d grown up on a f…