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Friday Jun 02, 2006

Money makes the world go round!

Well this week I have been deep in revision for my A-level exams that start next week! fun!, if anyone needs any useless info on Lord Byrons "Don Juan", shakespeare, psychology, sociology or world war one let me know! On top of that my volunteering preperation is hotting up. Ive got 7 months now until I head of for Tanzania for 8 months, but the fundraising is struggeling. I need £3600, and so far have £200! so im doing well. (catch the sarcasm?) Im writing letters to all my friends and family to ask for money on justgiving.com and then I'm hoping to target buisness for sponsorship, the only problem with that is that unfortunatly I have to get in the public eye to get sponsorship, so anyone in sussex and hampshire look out for embarrassing newspaper articles about me! everyone else I talk to volunteering in their gap year are paying £1000, or £1500 but no, I had to follow my morals and go with a charity that I believe truely works and helps the people in the "target" countries and so I have loaded myself with a heck of a fundraising task. The only type of fundraising I have done so far was my UMBONGO-ing. For 27 hours I had to finish every sentence with UMBONGO. It was going quite well until I arrived at English literature, and had to give a presentation on the horrors of the first world war as shown through wilfred Owen's poetry! I must say my english teacher wasn't best pleased when all the students insisted if I wanted my money it had to also count within poetry. By the end of it i had lost all of my friends, and didnt blame them...try it for just an hour and you will get an idea....I think I pleased some friends and family though because I quickly realsised if i didnt speak too much I didnt have to say UMBONGO too much!

No matter how much people have to raise, fundraising for a trip is hard, and many people I have talked to agree that it is in fact harder than fundraising directly for a charity. As a gap year student I have noticed a lot of reactions arguing that we are just trying to raise money for a holiday, it's hard to over come this without spending hours with each person repeating yourself. I can understand the reaction completly, but it is just frustrating when you know that its not true.

 

Posted by Emily ( 3:57 PM )
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