{"id":115,"date":"2018-03-15T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:31:59","slug":"social-author-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elizabethirenebaitie.com\/?page_id=115","title":{"rendered":"Social & Author Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author Visit to Ngleshie Amanfro Senior High School<\/strong><\/p>

A lively 45-minute “Read with Me<\/em>” event recently with the 3000-strong student body of Ngleshie Amanfro Senior High School.
First was to read an excerpt from The Twelfth Heart. It was a delight to discover most students were familiar with the St Felice series.
My core message was next.\u00a0 Why do I read?\u00a0 And why do I ask the students of Ngleshie Amanfro SHS\u00a0 to “read with me”?
I could give a hundred reasons but we didn’t have the whole day so I focused on one: Encouragement<\/strong><\/em>.
Nothing quite lifts the spirits and empowers one to keep on keeping on than to read another earthly soul’s tale\u00a0 of triumph over trial.<\/p>

In the world between the covers,\u00a0 I’ve simulated the characters’ experiences,\u00a0 cheered and cried with them, processed my thoughts in fertile solitude – and have stepped out encouraged and better equipped\u00a0 to encourage others.<\/p>

Question time – and\u00a0 the students wanted to know –
Where I get my ideas?<\/strong> Ans: Everywhere, everything and everyone! Even a heap of gathered dust can seed the idea for a story
What inspired me to write?<\/strong>\u00a0 Ans: As a child I thought good books were better than ice cream.
What\u00a0 sacrifices do I need to make to write? Ans: My favorite pastimes – (phone conversation and whatsapp)<\/p>

Finally came autograph time – the perfect opportunity to take pictures. Then it was back to class for them and off to work for me.<\/p>

A great author’s visit with a great group of students! Thanks to teacher Mr Denice Pomari (a fellow writer and reader!) of \u00a0Ngleshie Amanfro Senior High,\u00a0 to Code, Bill Burt and the Ghana Book Trust for their efforts to support reading and writing, and to my assistant Akua for these pictures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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