Jarrah Podesta : 'I knew I could cope going back to school because I knew Mathilde was still my friend.'I first met Mathilde at school [Campbells Creek Primary School in central Victoria]. She wanted me to come over to her house but I had a hospital appointment. But then we started to hang out a bit more and we kind of became more friends and we started to go to each other’s houses. I got to know her animals, like her sheep, which stamp their feet at me.
When I got my second eye out, I just braced myself. Before I went to sleep with the gas I said, “Goodbye eyeball!” It’s normal to say goodbye to an eyeball before you are about to lose it! I don’t know where it is now. I like to think it’s in a Holiday Inn in Mallorca or something. I have to memorise everything now: myself, my mum, the house, the world, the clouds, the trees, the animals, the dog.
We have similar hair colour and both like to read. We love asking questions and finding stuff out. We pretend we have a mystery and try to solve it. We also love teaching each other different skills. He teaches me Braille and I’ve taught him how to get out of a locked room with an old-fashioned key. You get a bit of wire and push out the key onto the newspaper you’ve slipped under the door, and then you pull the newspaper in and unlock the door.
I gave it to him the day he returned to school, completely blind. I am getting really good at directing Jarrah, like left, right and straight ahead. It took me to break my left arm to actually learn my left and right. We came up with a game: every time I do a certain number of directions correct, I get, like, a badge.
GoodWeekendMag I've had at least two attempts to get through reading Mathilde & Jarrah's Two of Us. Inspiring
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