My initial reactions to meeting the author whose writing had gripped, mystified and bewitched me over the summer were apprehension and slight bewilderment. The thing that had surprised her the most when touring England was the uniforms in the USA, she said, ‘Kids just wear whatever they want’. You have to walk outdoors to the gymnasium or to a different lesson’. She answered, ‘No, well, it has the same feeling of beautiful buildings and a campus in between. To break the ice, we first talked about my school, and whether it was similar to her high school in America. I’m in year 7, but because of my review I was given the opportunity to interview her afterwards. The coincidence was that she was visiting my school to give a talk to Year 8 and 9s.
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