I would like to thank Bob for being the only person who responded to my last tidbit. It is nice to know that someone still cares, even though he does it in a belligerent manner. The correct answer is females. Girls and women account for up to 70% of the world’s impoverished.
Now it is time for a fourth tidbit. Hopefully more people will answer.
Antigone Wanders’s Fourth Trivia Tidbit
Last night I watched the movie Gandhi. Mohandas K. Gandhi was concerned by British attempts to suppress Indian economic development. What type of resistance did Gandhi utilize? I’m looking for a specific word. You get bonus points if you can name an event that exemplifies this philosophy.
Now I would like to tell you all about my latest gap year idea.
My favorite thing about my gap year is the freedom. The world is my oyster. I can read, travel, farm, and do almost anything that strikes my fancy. I can throw my plans out of the window and create a new future from scratch. This weekend, I discovered Bike and Build (http://www.bikeandbuild.org), a potential twist for my whimsical gap year path. Bike and Build participants are college students who spend the summer biking from the East Coast to the West Coast. Along the way, they stop at Habitat for Humanity projects and lend a hand. I want to do Bike and Build. I have always had a secret dream of biking across the country, and I would not mind adding power tools to the adventure. The only catch is I would have to raise over $4000. Does anyone have creative fundraising ideas?
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- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Muhammad Yunus)
- Candide (Voltaire)
- Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
- Equus (Peter Shaffer)
- Full Circle: A South American Journey (Luis Sepúlveda) (also known as Patagonia Express)
- Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (J. Maarten Troost)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling)
- Hija de la Fortuna (Isabel Allende)
- Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
- Little Pink Slips (Sally Koslow)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
- Sexo en Nueva York (Spanish translation of Sex in the City) (Candace Bushnell)
- Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
- Symposium (Plato)
- The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
- The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson)
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin)
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
- The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Christopher Hitchens)
- The Witches of Eastwick (John Updike)
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time (David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson)
- Tunnel Vision (Sara Paretsky)
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16 comments:
I finally started reading your blog! This is far more efficient than late night phone calls.
Bike and build actually sounds fantastic. You'd have such a good time. As for fundraising, you could perhaps sell nitrogen-rich chicken poop to those seeking nitrogen? It's a thought. Assuming taking chicken poop from the farm wouldn't be a problem. Or that you wouldn't feel weird selling chicken poop on ebay or what have you.
(ditdequelle = missy, by the way)
1. Awww, we ALL love you Haley. I'm just the only one who loves you who has nothing better to do.
2. Ghandi: Passive resistance. Example: Sitting around all day with nothing better to do than post replies to blogs of wayward children.
3. Gap Year Idea: Awesome!
4. Fundraising ideas:
a. Steal chickens and sell them.
b. Take chicken heads, pose them on sticks, enact stop-motion video comedy sketches, record funny voice-overs, post videos on blog site, sell advertising.
c. When you stop at the various small towns on your bike & build cross country tour, rob the local liquor store. Bonus: get drunk on the white wine you steal with the cash.
d. Auction off my computers. Bonus: I can't bother you if I don't have a computer.
I'm looking for a one-word answer.
Satyagraha
Or,
Ahimsa
I love you Haley! I am busy hunting for Sophie's World, but I can't find it at the school library or the Chatham library. I am thinking of just buying a used copy.
Hi Haley!
I've just read your whole blog- and concluded that this is exactly what you should be doing this year! I'm so happy for you!!
I think Ghandi was known for passive resistance. Good movie.
Can people visit you? How long will you stay?
Love,
Jan
Nonviolence? Like...that time when...he encouraged people to take salt from the sea to boycott the British?
Yay Haley! Go Biking! Haha the chicken thing seems to be a popular option...but you could also look into borrowing the money from a financial institution and paying it off later. Or apply for more scholarships that will write you a check directly rather than to your school so you can use the money as you please. You won't be cheating the system if you consider your Gap Year to be a part of your human education.
But also I endorse Bob's suggestion (b). Everyone loves fringe productions!
Biking across the country has always seemed appealing, but the difficulty always seemed, to me anyways, in planning the route, but this seems to solve that problem. My father told me about when he biked out to Minnesota. Things are different these days though, seems like there are less back roads to take and drivers don't respect bikers as much.
bike and build sounds so sweet.
I want to do it!
Satyagraha
I think that's how it's spelled. It's been awhile since I've touched up on my Gandhi.
it's all about civil disobedience against evil governments but peacefully.
one example is when he walked some long distance to protest the salt tax on India from Britain. Because he wasn't actively recruiting people to join him the Big Brits couldn't actually stop him or say what he was doing wasn't allowed. because technically he was just walking down the road.
after arriving at the seashore he made his own salt (which WAS illegal)
the march and his salt making party basically started the whole country being disobedient.
pretty sweet (or salty I should say)
I just entered your blog world, Haley. I've decided that Leslie is catching on to this gap year idea from you and I wanted to read your stories, too! Thanks for sharing all this neat stuff. (And, by the way, I talk about nitrogen and phosphorus everyday because wetlands are natural nutrient processing plants, so we need more wetlands!) I think the biking across the country would be really hard mentally: too much time to think without much to DO! You'd have to fight the feeling that you need to go be "productive." So adding the HfH piece could really be the perfect combination, because, as you have probably noticed on the farm, real work is a good way to anchor your soul.
Passive resistance was a term he used but I think his first big popular effort was the salt march which was brilliant.
So Bob knows how to kill, bleed pluck and eviscerate a chicken. If he wants a job send him this way. What was the comment deleted?
Hi Haley!!!! Dad just showed me your blog. Sounds like your having a rock'n time!!! The biking thing sounds like SO much fun! I have no clue about the Ghandi thing, though I have seen the movie (dad made us watch it). I can't think of any ideas at the moment but we will brainstorm( Lillian could probably think of one!) Bug (sonora) says hi!
I only delete comments when people post the same thing twice.
Fund-raising for Bike & Build: I think that if you wrote a fund raising letter to various group and families in Chatham, they might bite -- especially if you focused on the Habitat for Humanity element. You could package it creatively. Some thoughts:
1. Create 3-4 levels of sponsorship (Top level gets one of those fancy photo albums that Bob knows how to make -- and their name in the album) -- Or you could promise to carve their initials in the beams of one of the houses you work on.
2. Equate a donation to $X per mile, $X per hour you will work or to $X per family you impact. While you find the journey part exciting, your donors will probably care most about the housing impact.
3. Promise a party at the end where you share the journey with everyone. Let Chatham see its connection to other communities.
4. Promise any sponsoring groups (over $X) that you will return and give them a lecture or that you will send them updates.
5. Emphasize that this is a 501-c-3 organization and that contributions are tax deductible. This isn't $4,000 to pay for your fun. [Is it?]
LQTM
Dad
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