First Milestone Reached!!!!!

Hi again, today I went to a mini-market at my local church. We did a mini car boot sale stall selling cakes and junk that we (my parents!) didn’t really want. It started at nine thirty and finished at one thirty. The stall had a really slow start making about five pounds in the first hour and by half ten I think we all thought we would be lucky to leave with thirty pounds between us - I was doing it with my good friend Andy, so we would have ended up with fifteen pounds each.

But with a bit of imagination, persuasion and smiling we started selling items around the car park away from the stall. After all the hard work and persuasion we managed to raise a staggering £99.22 which (when Dad made it up to £100) gave us £50 each! Andy's sister had made some candles so we had to give her £2.25, leaving us each with just a bit less than £50.

We were really pleased with the amount we raised and want to do more of this stuff in the future but on a bigger scale. Also when we sold something we would give a business card to everyone that bought something. The business card advertises our services as "Odd Job Boys". We think that the handing out of the business cards will overall bring in more than the stall did because a lot of people were asking about our ranges and prices! So we hope that we have done enough to help raise the money needed for Tanzania!

So why is the title of this posting "First Milestone Reached!!!!!" Well the first payment installment is due in a couple of weeks time. The £50 raised on saturday means that I will have raised enough to pay the bill, which is £350. Well done me!

Not Much To Report

Hey I’m back again, the exams finished and we now how our journals and t-shirts. I really like them. The paper round is getting harder because I not used to the early mornings. Also dad has now paid me for the very important job and I got £50 - he never told me it would be this much! It's now in the account. Mums friends have more jobs so I’ve got more to do when I have the chance, and grandma is keeping all the money I earn and giving it in a cheque at the end.

In our group we have decided to do the Three Peaks which could be a challenge and also we are going bag packing soon. The places we are going are Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s, Tesco’s, ASDA’s and Marks and Spencer’s. For this to happen we just need all the addresses and contact details of one of the group members but he has been off ill for a while so we don’t know when we will get to go bag packing now.

Not much to say really. I guess that means that I ned to work a bit harder to raise the money. My Dad certainly thinks so!!!