The Mighty Month Of May

This month, as the title suggests has been awesome!

I was allowed to hold a non uniform day and sell cakes in my high school in return for doing two assemblies explaining to the students in school what I was doing, where I was going and why we were having a non uniform day! Everyone had to wear an element of blue and/or white to symbolise the Honduras flag, and it was a great success! I am yet to receive the money from this fundrasing event but it was about £500 which is an enormous help. Thank you especially to one teacher, Dr Neal Jones who wrote me a check for £54.00 1% of the money that I have to raise in total, it was a very kind gesture and proved that he had listened to my assembly as well!

We then had the Zumbathon last sunday! I had been worrying about the event all week, fearing that nobody would actually come and we would have 100's of cakes to split between me and my family! This however was not the case, and everyone had a wonderful if not exhausting day and helped me raise £854 which is amazing!

I have just received two cheques in the post, one from my auntie Wendy, so thank you auntie wendy and uncle steve, and another from my dentist's practice donating £50 to my cause! I wrote him a letter months ago, so it's nice to have some unexpected money through the post! Thank you Clifton Dental Practice Newtown

April

This month has been spent publicising the Zumbathon, getting posters out to people, selling tickets, Zumbathon team meetings and the gathering of raffle prizes!

We had a Zumbathon meeting in Newtown's Exchange, and got the tickets and posters to instructors, and sorted out the playlist and schedule for the event, it was all very exciting to meet everyone who would be helping, and it's humbling to think they are willing to give up their sunday to help me raise money!

My school have finally given me a date for the non-uniform day that I am allowed to hold, 3rd of May, provided that I do two assemblies to explain what it is I'm doing and why we are having a non-uniform day for me..this will be very scary but I need to man up and accept that I will need to get used to talking to large groups of people, even my peers. I will also be holding a cake sale, some of my friends have volunteered to make cakes which is always helpful!


School work and revision is starting to pile up now, and it doesn't help that Ive managed to lose my memory stick but it will hopefully be returned to me soon. Fund-raising is still a major priority although I am happy to have reached £2,000!

Feb/March

February and March brought the beginning of my vaccination timetable, which obviously I wasn't looking forward too, but it made going away seem more real somehow!

My school have allowed me to hold a non uniform day sometime next term which is wonderful because it's a chance for me to publicise what it is I'm actually doing within my school, and raise (hopefully) a fair bit of money as well!

Zumbathon preparations are going well so far, with tickets being printed and sold very quickly!

On Easter sunday my family and I travelled down to Tenby where we met the rest of my family (all 24 of us) (minus one cousin) to celebrate my Aunty's 60th birthday! Apart from the food being lovely and it being wonderful to see everyone, my uncle John kindly asked everyone to donate what they would have spent on the meal to me... a very simple ploy which resulted in over £300 towards my target!

My family have been very supportive of my year abroad, and I thank them all very very much! I am left wondering if they're almost too excited to see me leaving for a year.....?

January!

So this month is a busy one..
I've had 4 A-level exams to revise for and sit, and on top of that had to organise and plan events that will run for the next couple of months!

I have booked my local night club Crystals, for an over 16 Valentine's Day Dance, 14th of February
also, Maldwyn Leisure Centre for a Zumbathon in May, and my rugby tickets for the Wales Ireland Six Nations game, are selling in school!

I would like to formally thank my aunty Denise and Uncle Bryan for their donation of £100. Which has come as a result of them sending birthday emails this year

Also Across the Pond Student Recruitment LLP, who have kindly donated an amazing £300!


My total raised so far is £512.40 so thank you everyone for helping!