Last night, Laura and I finally managed to beat the 24/7 lighting and actually slept in our relatively dark tent last night. Not only did we have our extra sleeping bag and blanket draped over and attached to our tent, we added out towels. This people, is the key to a pretty dark tent.
I don’t know about you guys, but about once a day we get someone who comes up and rants to us. Most of which are related to the area where the funds are going “India has enough money” etc. however this particular guy was crazy mad at us personally. If he swings buy again we’re calling security ASAP.
Money making strategies for the day
1) Laura works at the daycare so we recruited some of the kids to sit and read by our tent and collect donations.
2) Had a student wearing one of the LiL shirts stand by one of the entrances to the school with one of our many buckets collection donations.
3) We bought 80 Timbits in the morning which people could have if they donated.
4) Really emphasizing the tax deductions and how much people will get back.
5) I took one of the buckets to my afternoon lab and class, which added a decent amount to our fund-age.
Other aspects of the day included one of our first donors of the day telling us that we were in the free newspaper The Metro today. One of our volunteers who is actually from India attempted to teach us how to pronounce the regions where Room to Read is present. Her attempt was futile. Our friend bringing us dinner and Norm, if you read this, I pretty much love you. One of our friends was reading the website “www.likealittle.com” today and told us that someone posted about us, which is too funny.
Our total for the day goes as follow: 20 pence, 1 rupee, 20 sen, 25 sentimo, 161 yen and another “10″ coin which we have yet to identify… And according to the Google images we compared it to, it is not from, China, Thailand, Japan, or Taiwan.
Finally, our total for the day was (drum roll please……..) $837.21!!!! Bringing our cumulative total to $2563.21!
We’re about to fall asleep in our soup, we will report back tomorrow.
Sincerely, Team Vadar Bear
AKA Kym and Laura
