Monday, April 26, 2010
Team Fundraising
After the Relay for Life
Last weekend was the Relay for life 2010. Here are some of the events that happened on the night/day:
- It was freezing cold at night
- I got about three hours sleep
- It rained pretty much all night
- We had a Trivia Challenge and my team won!
- A friend and I walked around the campsites at night
- A friend and I walked around and put business related items into each teams 'mail box'
-There was heaps of food to eat such as hot dogs, muffins, brownies, chips, lollies and practically anything and everything
- There was a camping tent set up for people to sleep in
- There was another tent (the type that we use at carnivals) that was set up as sort of like a living room where there were couches, chairs, tables, radio, where the food was kept etc)
- At 7.40pm there was an aeroplane challenge where you had to create an aeroplane out of nothing but paper
- I made a pledge to help prevent me and others around me to not get diagnosed with cancer
- There was a big screen with the footie and Austar TV all night
- Candle Lit Ceremony
- My team played a fun oldies radio game
- And heaps of other things!
Trivia Challenge: Some of the questions were really hard for example, 'What is the colour of the most outer ring on an archery board?' and 'What type of creature is a Grunt?'
For the Paper Plane Challenge, you had to create the ultimate paper plane. The rules were that you could only use paper.
At the Candlelight Ceremony, we were given paper bags and if you wanted to, you could write on them saying who you were walking for and just a message and anything else you wanted to write about. After that, sand was put into the bag and a candle was placed in the sand to be lit and blaze all night (until the rain put it out!)
- It was freezing cold at night
- I got about three hours sleep
- It rained pretty much all night
- We had a Trivia Challenge and my team won!
- A friend and I walked around the campsites at night
- A friend and I walked around and put business related items into each teams 'mail box'
-There was heaps of food to eat such as hot dogs, muffins, brownies, chips, lollies and practically anything and everything
- There was a camping tent set up for people to sleep in
- There was another tent (the type that we use at carnivals) that was set up as sort of like a living room where there were couches, chairs, tables, radio, where the food was kept etc)
- At 7.40pm there was an aeroplane challenge where you had to create an aeroplane out of nothing but paper
- I made a pledge to help prevent me and others around me to not get diagnosed with cancer
- There was a big screen with the footie and Austar TV all night
- Candle Lit Ceremony
- My team played a fun oldies radio game
- And heaps of other things!
Trivia Challenge: Some of the questions were really hard for example, 'What is the colour of the most outer ring on an archery board?' and 'What type of creature is a Grunt?'
For the Paper Plane Challenge, you had to create the ultimate paper plane. The rules were that you could only use paper.
At the Candlelight Ceremony, we were given paper bags and if you wanted to, you could write on them saying who you were walking for and just a message and anything else you wanted to write about. After that, sand was put into the bag and a candle was placed in the sand to be lit and blaze all night (until the rain put it out!)
Before the Relay for Life
The Saturday morning and afternoon before I left, I didnt know what to expect for this years Relay for life and what to pack. This is what I was thinking about and what I ended up packing:
- a warm jacket
- warm long pants
- extra warm socks
- torch
- water
- food (to share)
- fun stuff to do such as music (headphones)
- extra hairties and bobbby pins just in case
- a camera to take pictuers (I didnt take many because everything was so dark that nothing came out in the photo
- all the money had been counted and given to the team captain, so we would find out how much we raised that night
- I was pretty tired because I had already played sport that day and I dont know if I am able to stay up all night (which is my plan)
- a warm jacket
- warm long pants
- extra warm socks
- torch
- water
- food (to share)
- fun stuff to do such as music (headphones)
- extra hairties and bobbby pins just in case
- a camera to take pictuers (I didnt take many because everything was so dark that nothing came out in the photo
- all the money had been counted and given to the team captain, so we would find out how much we raised that night
- I was pretty tired because I had already played sport that day and I dont know if I am able to stay up all night (which is my plan)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Fundraising
For fundraising, I helped the cancer council sell raffle tickets. To sell the raffle tickets, I went around the street, around a friends street, asking people at netball, and asked family and friends if they wanted to buy raffle tickets. In the end I ended up raising just under $200. This is really good and I nearly got to my goal of $200. I was really proud and I was surprised at how generous some people were. Also, I bought some of the tickets to add my own contribution and found it really fun to ask people and explain to them what the Relay for life was all about. All up I think that I spent about 6 hours selling raffle tickets to people. I didn't just go around the street by myself, to make it fun, I two different friends to come walking and door knocking with me the two times that I went. I was astounded at how fast time flied because we were having so much fun. The days that we went walking, it was really hot, and we had to go back to the house to get some water. While walking we experienced heaps of funny memories that we will keep for life and some of the people we met were either really nice, annoyed, mean or really funny. But I guess that is just all part of the experience.
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