Meeting a shoe designer

On Friday the 12th of March room 17 communicated with D'wayne Edwards the leading designer for Nike, through the computer. We asked hundreds of questions, Miss Davies fingers tirelessly typing on the computer.

"It's NewZealand again", we would hear every 5 minutes .

D'wayne Edwards said New Zealand was on fire. We invited him down and he even considered coming here.

Through the time we got to chat with him he talked about when he was young and how he became a top shoe designer, as well as questions in between and facts about shoes he designed.

He talked to us about never giving up and when you focus your mind on doing something you will get there one day. He told us his 2b pencil took him around the world. His mother gave him a note that said "There is no limit to what you can do. Believe in what tomorrow will bring". He told us how when he was 11 he decided that his dream was going to be designing shoes.

He had lots of perseverance and that's how he reached his goal.

So if you have a life long dream that you want to follow, if you put your mind to it, you will get there soon.