Tanya Heaslip

There was, I'm desperate to see what's on the other side of that wall.

I'm desperate to go any way I can.

But this was the early 90s and I didn't know any way of doing that.

So the plan, to the extent there was a plan, was that I just kept telling people I wanted to go and eventually somebody knew somebody in this barrister in Darwin, Peter Barr, by chance had been to Czechoslovakia and taught in a little town called Sedlčani.

And he arranged for me to go there.

So I went for three months to teach English at this high school in a country, Czech town, knowing nothing.

I wasn't a teacher.

I didn't know how to teach second language.

I couldn't speak Czech.

I knew nothing.

I just said, thanks, Peter.

Got a ticket, got my visa.

The visa arrived two days before I left.

I just jumped on a plane and went.

It was all I wanted to do.

I did not think how I would land.

Right.

So you might have seen pictures of Prague, which is, I think, the most beautiful city in the world.

Did you think Settelcani was going to be like that?

And what was the reality of Settelcani when you got there?