Last Day of Preparations YAY!

Hi everbody!

It’s been a VERY busy weekend to say  the least! We have been at Carolyn’s house for 10+ hours working away.  Here’s a little picture of what happened:

Thursday: Carolyn and Ms. Prince talk on the phone to discuss last minute details of the project (the clues, the tables, the food, etc).

Friday: Kelly has been battling illness but she comes to school in order to help Carolyn (isn't she just sooo generous with her time even tho it is her senior project :p).  We picked up a megaphone from our school’s athletic director (really excited to use it…!). We also pick up 100+ cookies from our cafeteria for our event. Our school kindly donated these cookies to us and we are very grateful!

Friday night: Kelly goes to Carolyn’s house and the work begins! We begin by cutting all the paper in the paper cutter to make it fit in the printer. That’s 80 sheets of paper that we cut! After that, we printed all the clues, in 8 different colors. Then, we had to cut all those clues out too. Luckily our friend Kristy and Carolyn’s cousin were there to help us with all this work. While this was happening, we perfected all of our activities (charades, the song game, trivia, and the ice breaker). Carolyn’s mom went out and did some shopping buying the jump ropes and chopsticks. Not to mention, while all of this was happening, Carolyn’s family was preparing for a party at their house on Saturday where over 200 people are coming! Crazy!

Here are some pictures from our night!

Well now it is Saturday morning and we are still working! We put all the clues in separate enveloped and organized them by team and in chronological order.

Things still on our to-do list:

Inquire about the tables at the event

Make the poster for the sponsors

Make sure all the food is coming to the event

Print the instructions for the activities for the volunteers

Right now it is go, go, go!  The event is actually tomorrow!!!! It’s so crazy! We are unbelievably excited and hope the kids like our event.

Well that’s all for now!

Kelly and Carolyn

Clue

Hello all :)

After taking the math test of death (honestly I don't understand why we have to learn this stuff, it's not like we will ever use it again!), Carolyn and I drove to the mall area after school and shopped till we dropped! Just kidding... Although, we did write all of our clues!! I personally feel much less stressed because now we have all of the clues down on paper and will be printing them out this weekend. We then went to Carolyn's house and tested out the clues on Carolyn's family to see if they could guess them... "One of our clues was: "Why do you build me up, build me up ______ baby, just to let me down..." however no one in her family has heard that song so they did not know that the answer was buttercup :( (really? that song is a CLASSIC...people just don't know good music anymore...*sigh* what is this world coming to?)

Right now we are still trying to negotiate the food issue and next week we'll make our way to costco in order to make our purchases for the big day! (Let's hope we make it out alive because it is soooo crowded)

We honestly can't believe it's in a week...time flies by! (but we can pull it off)



And now we will leave you with the cutest comic we have ever seen that is related to scavenger hunts:




~Kelly and Carolyn

Please Do Not Take Care of the Children....?

Hola amigos,

Carolyn and I are sitting in our school library currently and devoting only free block to our senior project (we are such good little students). We called a sandwich shop that is located in the mall where we are doing our event and are interested in having them cater our event. The lady that we talked to was so sweet and she even read our blog which is so exciting! (soon we shall become famous...just kidding, but we do hope to raise more awareness for our cause) Hopefully we can get an estimate tomorrow and continue our budgeting with our limited knowledge. Hey you have to learn somehow right?

Furthermore, Carolyn and I created a cram schedule for all the things we have left to do (though we are making great progess the list never seems to end....hmmm sounds a lot like homework). We are planning on going to the mall area and writing/printing all of the clues on Thursday, so wish us luck (Carolyn's the creative one in our dynamic duo, so i'll be running around finding our location, fun!) We are so thankful to all the stores that are willing to host the clues and we really couldn't do it without them. Also, we thought of some activities to do during the race. Our ideas include, "Finish that Lyric," Charades, Jump-rope, and picking up M&Ms with chopsticks (inspired by our recent China trip!). We also thought of some great ice-breakers to do at the beginning of the event where we have a bag filled with candy and then a legend on the bag that says what each candy signifies, so if you pull out a nerds then you have to tell your group your favorite book. Doesn't that sound fun? I mean who doesn't like candy?

Keep you in touch with our ideas!

A funny sign we saw in China :-)

 

Kelly and Carolyn

Budgets Can Be Fun!

Hello everyone!!!

A short update!

Carolyn and I met up today after school to create a budget. It was the first time I have done a budget before (this was Carolyn's thousandth time... ms. business-woman...aka show off) so it was a good learning experience for me. We figured out the materials we would need to run the event, like paper, food, table cloths, nametags etc and how much they would cost. Let's just say it's not cheap, but luckily we have some corporations that we are planning on turning to for a donation. And with our dashing good looks, I'm sure they will give us some money....or we will just have to resort to begging on the street.... Just kidding! :)

Right now, we're feeling a bit stressed but, nonetheless, are excited to see how things come together! We are currently waiting for the final list of stores that will be participating in the event and once we get that together we'll go back to the mall area and start working on our clues.

For now, we will leave you with a picture that represents our situation:




Just kidding! Although that's what we wish was happening to us....


~Kelly and Carolyn

Day 4....5, 6, 7, 8....

Hey everybody!

Sorry it took us so long to blog. We have been working hard on our project and have recently come back from  our Interim trip to China. Here's the update on what we've done.

We encountered a couple of hardships regarding the fundraising. First of all, our school refused to let us hold a small bake sale because apparently foster kids aren't worth the cause. But, raising money for debate sweatshirts is more important... We sure LOVE our school. We tried to negotiate, however, we were lectured and were told it was against school rules to raise money for our senior project at school. They told us that if we wanted money from our school, we would have to get it from the school itself from the board of trustees. That's WAY easier than a simple bake sale... (guess no one will ever try my brownie recipe :( )

We also attempted to hold a fundraising night at an ice cream store in town and after repeated visits, emails, and phone calls, we have not received a response. They should pay for our gas money considering how many times we've driven over there! But who's complaining...??

Carolyn is now contacting specific companies who are willing to donate. Yay! We are also depending upon food and other necessities being donated.

We have some good news as well: Our location has been secured which is great! We also met multiple times with the general manager and things are working out just as planned. We have been doing lots of emailing with their Marketing Director trying to figure out the specifics.

Lastly, we met with a professional event coordinator who told us what to do regarding getting stuff donated and how the layout of the day would work.

Well, we're off to make a gazillion phone calls to get donations!!

<3,

Kelly and Carolyn