Raffle Time!

      I'm finally writing a journal entry after almost 3 weeks! Time is flying and it's not good! The second trimester is almost over and I still don't have enough money even cover for the camp, I'm with negative numbers right now. I'm very worried that I won't be able to make enough money! I just had this realization today I now I'm freaking out! 

      I've been working a lot on my CAS project these past few weeks that I didn't realize that there was so little time left. On the week of the 10-16 I got the raffle tickets done, I created a design, printed it and I also cut them (it was a very long and tedious process because I printed enough for 320 tickets). Also I decorated the bullitin borad with help of Miss Amy. Then in the Land and Sea show case I also had a stop where I had information about the project. I felt like that week I got a lot of things done I felt very proud of myself.

      Then the week of the 17-23, we didn't have class because Monday was off and I was sick and I barley got my school work done. I have to be honest that I didn't do anything related to CAS.

     Then this week I went to the coffee house to sell my raffle tickets. I sold 16 tickets so far and hopefully I sell more tickets. At the coffee house I was only going to sell my raffle tickets, but a the food sale Vivian (Pedro's wife) was all alone and there were no students from the music group helping her. I love to help, that is my weakness, if someone needs help with and event or bake sale I will help them without thinking twice, so on Thursday I helped at the food sale. It was fun, I hadn't done a bake sale since last school year when we were fundraising for our CAS field trip. I had forget the craziness and adrenaline that one feels when there is a lot of people waiting to pay or get their food. After all I was happy for helping because $140 dollars where raise, but I was also disappointed that nobody was going to help Vivian with the sale. I know that the music group is always very busy during the coffee house, so I don't blame them, put there are so many students that were just there watching and that they will also benefit from the money raise and nobody help. I feel like more students need to get the initiative to just step up and help without having someone to ask them.

      My goal is to sell of the tickets because that way I will be raise $1280, but then I need to pay back the IPad, which was missing $150. Right now I have sold 16 tickets ($64 dollars), it's good but it's not enough. I want to sell more, so I posted information about the raffle in the Tamarindo Garage Sale, Potrero Garage Sale, Families of La Paz and Student of La Paz Facebook group. Hopefully this will help me sale more! I really hope that I can sale more raffle tickets and I'll do the adult dinner next trimester so I can raise the right amount of money. 

Wish me luck! I really need it!

Quick Update

So this will be just a quick update of what I did last week regarding CAS.

  On saturday before the yearbook mini golf event I meet with Mauro, the owner of Bamboo Sushi, he is a La Paz parent that wants to help out with my CAS project. We talked about the project and my experience in it which was my motivation to start the schoolarship fund. We agreed that Bamboo was a better option because it was open for longer time and it had more space for people. He said that the date that worked the best for him was the week of the 22nd of February and there isn't any events that weekend which is good.  He said he would give a 10% but not from all the proceeds, only from the people that mentioned that they are from La Paz or show their student ID. The good thing is that it is opened from 11am-10pm, 11 hours for La Paz members to show up.

   I wanted to ask him if the proceeds from all that day and maybe a lower percentage like 5% but I felt like I was asking to much. This is something that would go under the category of ethical implications and working with others. It's ethical because I ask myself where I should as for more or not because they are already helping a lot just by accept to give a percentage. Before the meeting I was asking myself if I should just ask for 10% or 5% of all the proceeds of the night, but I just didn't feel it was right, I felt it was better when the parent proposed it because it's coming from their good will and not from a student that is demanding for help. In the meeting I decide to just tell him how it works, some restaurants have it only members of La Paz, other have it all night and the different % ranges. I think it¿'s also good this way because it changes in each restaurant and it's not always the same percentage and the same "rules".

    I hope that turns out well, I have a week and a half to announce it, I need to make a flyer some time this week but I feel a little overwhelm because there are a lot of this that I need to do this week because I way a day and a half on our San Jose field trip. 

This week I need to finish the raffle templates, I have two versions and I need to see which one will be better. I also need to set up the prices and think of different places to sell the tickets that way more people buy it. For example maybe ask Papaya con Leche is they are interested in having some tickets there for the people that live in Tamarindo. Then have both campuses and I need to find other places to sell tickets in flamingo and Potrero.

I also need to decide ASAP if I will be selling food during the Poetry Night, it would be a good chance too raise more money if nobody has already taken it. I would take Sonia's offer of donating food and sell it during the event. I was think about the coffee house but I didn't think it would have been ethical to take it away from the art/music department because they also need to raise money. I will speak with Miss Amy and Yoann about the idea to see if it's fisable and get in touch with Sonia to ask her for the food donations. 

So much to do!!!