They found me a match!

And my first thought was, that if you stood me at 18 next to this girl who is 18, you couldn't find two more different people!

The mentee is in university.  I found out about university at 18... and I'd already been working for a year.  Kids from my highschool didn't go to university.  Even if I knew... I couldn't afford the bus fare to get there let alone anything else.

The mentee can write.  I couldn't write at 18, and what would I say anyway?  I worked all week, and spent what I earned all weekend.  I was stuck in a town that was famous for its powersite, coalmine, underwear factory, marae and sinking houses.  You know that working town mentality... the one that drives teenagers wild?  Yep.  That was me.  Silly, giggly, overdrinking, wild driving... not a writer.

But surprsingly, our writing content has a lot in common, and her goals are goals I can help with.  Which is great.  I was expecting a more needy mentee but an 18 year old like I was, wouldn't be in the mentorship program, would they?  They be too busy knocking back beers with their mates on the bonnet of their vauxhall and having donut comps.

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