Jenny Knightley, a Totara College Year 11 student, makes a cappuccino for a customer.
If you can make good coffee you have a ticket to the world.
That's the view of Dave Clapperton, barista coffee teacher from Palmerston North.
He points out his niece from New Zealand living in Paris making coffee, not far from the Eiffel Tower, as an example.
He was on
a two-day visit to Dannevirke's Totara College to teach junior students how to make top coffee. He came with two machines, lots of milk, bags of coffee beans and heaps of enthusiasm.
Dave has a lot of experience making top coffee. Last year he was a judge at the World Barista Championships in Melbourne.