Morocco - Week One

I feel both ambitious as well as ready after the first week. We have talked about many fundraising ideas and how we would do them, where we would do them and the logistics of fundraising, but I am ready to actually go out and start fundraising, I am ready to raise money and start the hard part of the expedition. I would say that my excitement level has decreased in the past week because I am now realizing that the trip is a long way away and it will just be a lot of hard work, time, and dedication leading up to it. I am excited that we are going to be able to start fundraising very soon, but I want to be able to organize all of the ideas we have about what we are going to and sort everything out.
I think that as a whole, the group came up with many great ideas that will generate a lot of money for us and will cut the cost down of the trip. I believe that the ideas we came up with for fundraising are very creative and out of the ordinary of most fundraisers. I will be able to contribute a great amount of dedication and hard work. I am ready for everything and anything and my goal is to raise as much money as we can, weather it be from a Student-teacher softball game to pay money to hear Mr. Fetzer's pilgrim voice. I have talents of speaking well in front of others and I have connections with golf courses that will benefit the golf tournament. I have been working with a peer in arranging ways that we could set up a golf tournament and i think it is a perfect way to get a lot of money quickly.
In the small group meeting today I contributed what I thought of the fundraisers and I gave my opinions on which ones I thought would work and which ones I thought would generate the most money. I would definitely say that my favorite fundraising idea that I have heard is the golf tournament. Golf is my favorite sport and having been working on a golf course for some years, I have seen many fundraisers go on, and now that I have a chance to create one is incredible. I believe that a golf tournament could get a substantial amount of money and that is why I am so interested in it.
I am participating in the media group and I believe the media group is very interesting. I want to write about the group and the things that we do as this long journey progresses. So far we have found ways to advertise the trip but we are holding off to contact businesses and parents about fundraising until we have a detailed summary of what the trip is about and what we are going to be doing on the trip.