I am a student that attends Ashburton College, and I attended the Biology trip to Dunedin on the 29th of May.
On that trip, we used Pearsons Coachlines as our transport to and around Dunedin. The driver with us was a young man named Josh. I wish to bring to your attention how amazing Josh was on the trip. The first thing that amazed me was how kind he was. He greeted us with the biggest smile I have ever seen someone have at 5am. Then he allowed us to sleep while he drove for 4 hours to Dunedin, where he drove skillfully around the dodgiest looking path I have ever seen anyone successfully drive a bus around. He is a very talented driver. This wasn’t the best part about what Josh did though. We had 2 members of staff with us, but Josh stepped up and helped lead us. He volunteered to help with the cooking and cleaning and even got his hands wet with the dishes. This was never asked of him but he decided to do it anyway and I respect him heavily for it. He made life a lot easier for the teaching staff with us and I feel like the trip would not have run as smoothly as it did without Josh helping out.
I felt like I needed to share how one of your drivers amazed us all with his kind heart, warming smile, friendly character, culinary skills and above all, his willingness to do much more than what was required of him. He is an amazing person and I am glad he came on the trip with us. The trip would not have been the same and it would have been much more difficult if he did not volunteer when he did not need to.
Yours sincerely,
Jacob Greaney