First Donations! Say Whaa?? =D

I know this trip is just under a year away but I'm so excited!! x] I got my first donations thanks to Gráinne, Mark H and Andy and my neighbour Mark (because I gave him a homebaked scone) so my total today adds up to €3.90!! Its a start anyway =D Here's my empty passata jar with the progress so far, it'll be full to the brim in notes in no time ^_^





Woohoo! I'm getting loads of good fun ideas to raise money, I don't want to just be doing the usual table quizes and bag packing to raise money, like if I was doing those, everyone one have to dress in onesies or monkey suits! So far I'm thinking of busking with fire poi, selling jelly vodka shots, painting faces in the middle of college, putting scars on people, performing some artsy fartsy movement/acting piece @ €1 entry or something, and bake sales where each thing is only 50c! - And of course I'll be wearing my onesie and butterfly wings while selling them, just because I can get away with it! I'm gonna make this more fun than stressful, more ideas to come and I'll let you know what's going on :) If you're interested that is :P
    On another exciting note, I was youtubing videos of vervet monkeys to show you guys and I found one from a girl who went to the same place I'm going to which I think is deadly! Here it is anyway, it's pretty simple but the monkey is so cute :3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTLrD7EbGIQ
Feeding them every 20mins at night is going to be tough but so worth it :)
  Now, to more boring matters, I need to pay a deposit of €530 to the project to get a form of proof of reason behind funraising so I think I'll take a loan out of the credit union to pay for that so I can get onto asking businesses for sponsorship and asking Tesco if I can bagpack in one of their stores dressed as a giraffe or something ! So that's what's cracking, if any of ye own businesses and would like to sponsor me with a product or voucher or sum of sorts I'll put your logo/copmpany name on my sponsorship cards and display links to your company on this page and in every e-mail/letter I send to anybody in regards to raising funds or thanking people, just let me know =]
    Ok, there's more I want to ramble on about out of excitement but I'll save that for another day, I've spent the whole night researching this stuff instead of college work (yet again), thanks for reading, that itself is support! Love y'all :)
(: <3

Gosh, there really is a lot to plan!

OK, it's been a month since I've updated the blog which is just not good enough! I was really busy moving house and then went abroad for my Godson's christening but now I'm back in Dundalk and settled in and ready for action!
  Now, one main fundraising activity I plan on doing is bag packing in Tesco in Drogheda for a day hopefully. I'm going to e-mail them tomorrow or Thursday asking permission to do so. However I AM slightly worried that they'll ask for a copy of the EnkosinI Voluntary Contribution Form (from the sanctuary saying it's a genuine cause etc). Now the problem with that is I won't receive that form until I officially book the program by paying a 50% which will be $647.50/€503. So I need to raise €503 to get the form and I need the form to raise the €503! It's a silly system we live in these days! But anyway, I'll contact Tesco and Supervalu and whoever will have me to work out exactly what I need to bag-pack and let you guys know what the story is :)
  I'm also going to get in touch with some businesses to see if they'll kindly donate a product or voucher for their company or anything of the sorts for me to raffle off (or use as prizes at a table quiz if I get the time to organize one).
  In the meantime I'm working on printing out basic sponsorship cards but I need to get ink for my printer so once I get my hands on some then that'll be that sorted! In the meantime, if anyone would like to sponsor me now you still can by clicking the link up there on the top right which goes straight into my paypal/Africa account which I'm using only for this program, any donation at all, big or small I will be eternally thankful for! Thanks for reading too! =] And I promise, I won't leave the next post for too long this time, I'm a student procrastinating from work now! =P
Peace (: <3