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I've never heard that before.

The way that's occurring is that basically we're getting a whole lot of internationals.

Otago Polytechnic has now employed a couple of new people to sort of drum, go tout for trade in places like India where we've got a new free trade agreement which is going on to try and get students into into our classes.

And I don't want to sound rude, but I mean, international students, when you sell them the goose that lay the golden egg, there's no subsidies that go on for it.

I mean, I don't imagine they plucked you out of thin air.

Yeah, well, it sort of started a bit with the education side of it, Dom, and just doing some work with the Otago Polytech down in Otopodi, Dunedin.

And, yeah, I got invited to an international food design conference in 2015. and was able to speak at that conference.

Met a lot of top New Zealand chefs at that conference, as well as international chefs.

And so what I did was one summer I randomly had like a break.

So I was contracting to Otago Polytechnic teaching electrical and I had this like random two month break between contracts and I was like what am I going to do like I'm someone who always needs something to do I'm going to be so bored and a friend recommended signing up to volunteer for DOC so if anyone wants to do this I highly recommend you can go on the DOC website and you can just see all of the volunteering opportunities coming up especially in summer So they're all over New Zealand.

You can do like a whole rainbow of different things.

And one of them was volunteering with the doctoral team on Stewart Island.

Like, I do not want to do this on my own.

I was the first ever woman to teach an electrical program.

Like, I was the first ever electrician, female electrician, to be hired at Otago Polytechnic.

Isn't that crazy? Like you think that it's still so new in these spaces.

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All those tertiary education did not start in America.

But if you take like

a job that we have at Otago Polytechnic, the Kaitahutoku office.

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