Harry Scott

You know, whether that, you know, you go around and see how much rainwater you can catch or you make bush potions or you, you know, use them for stacking things and you, you know, make a mud ball and roll down like it's bowling or...

whatever there's just you know diving through your recycle bin sometimes you find some really cool stuff that you're like okay and the best bit is you don't care about it you know like it's not like anything's gonna if it gets broken it's in the recycle anyway yeah yeah yeah if you know it gets muddy whatever you hose it off and chuck it back in the bin it's it's yeah yeah

Funny you say that.

I actually got to meet Erica Stanford at a school by chance one day.

I just happened to be there on the same day.

And she was coming out of a classroom and I was sort of delivering a class back.

Yeah.

and it was kind of right at the height of when they were looking at changing the the outdoor programs for high schools um and so i don't know yeah i just said to her when she asked who i was and what i did it was like well you know i'm this guy that works in the outdoors and i've made a career out of

being out here and teaching this in schools.

And so my thing was like, this is who we are.

This is part of our culture here in Aotearoa.

This is part of our identity.

Like, we can't take that from our tamariki.

We can't

Let them go through life without having these experiences that make us who we are.

And I think that's such an important thing.

Like, I'm sure if you go around and talk to people in other countries about what they think a Kiwi kid would be up to and what they think us as Kiwis can do, you know, in terms of being in the outdoors and surviving off the bush and...

we're becoming a minority of, of, of actually that way inclined.

I think there's definitely a push back against that massively now, but yeah, I think for schools, for the, for the ministry, for the, it's like, don't rob our tamariki of our identity.

Don't rob them of the favorite parts of my childhood, you know, and, and,