Posted by Shandra.
This is one of those stories designed to provide a link back to our earlier stories. In this case, we are looking at the places where Story 43 – Shanti was Painfully Shy, took place. The places in this story were sort of based on real places so one day when we all went to visit Allan’s father we decided to show the younger girls where this was.
The first stop was our old High School. We visited during the week and actually did meet one of our old teachers. He remembered the four of us too. It was fun catching up with him and telling him what we were doing now. He explained that the place where the flagpole was had been removed years before and a new build stood there. This was a disappointment for us and gave us the idea to put this disappointment into the story. In our story we wanted Katrina to sit in the place where Shanti had sat so we said the pole was about to be pulled down.
Next was a large pine forest in Waitakere. Yes, we already knew this had been milled years before but still we could show the girls roughly where the place was we used in the story. As for the location of the two houses. Shanti’s house was completely made up so we placed it near the village of Waitakere. Mike’s house is based on where Allan grew up and his Dad still lives. For privacy reasons we have not given an exact location of this house although I think anyone familiar with the area would be able to pinpoint the place fairly closely.
Oh so there were real places in that story? That is interesting. We also like how you've changed these places in this story match how those real places have changed.
ReplyDeleteBrian & Julie.