Summer plans, fundraising for TUE.
Apr. 10th, 2007 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewtI've been invited to volunteer at The Utopia Experiment for two weeks from 23rd July. I wouldn't have to pay anything, just get myself up there.
I would LOVE to go. Really. Specifically I'd be doing felting and yarn stuff, as well as generally helping out. They know I can't do heavy labour. They would really like to get the felting started this summer, rather than next, because (obviously) it would be good to have warm things to wear this coming winter.
Aikido summer camp is the first two weeks of August and I'd very much like to get to at least one week of that.
This would mean three weeks out of London, though, and no real opportunity to earn for any of it, which means I'm basically out a month's expenses plus travel fees and Aikido course fees (hopefully![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hairyears will help with accomodation once I'm at Aikido camp, as he did last summer). I don't think I'll be busking by then but I may well be doing some audio typing or other work to make ends meet over the summer.
I don't see how I can possibly manage to do this. It's just not financially viable. Also, my parents would quite like me to visit Canada at some point this summer, and no WAY can I do both, even though I'd prefer to go in the winter (because SNOW and stuff).
*sulk* I can't go to Dartington this summer; the playing is just too physically demanding, and while I'll probably have my horn stick by then (I hope I will anyway!), I'm not going to be in any shape to lug my instrument around up and down hills and stuff.
Tired of being po'.
One thing I am thinking of is something a bit like wahtnaamah_darling did for the wolves, but for TUE instead, and instead of all profits being donated, having half of them donated and half go to the maker of the pretty things. It would be good publicity for TUE, it would be hopefully good fundraising for them, but also good publicity for anyone who decides to make stuff and donate it. And if I'm very lucky I might find that I make enough to actually get me there...
Anyone interested?mubeimmik? yellowrocket? claire_wain? Anyone else? Am I insane here?
I would LOVE to go. Really. Specifically I'd be doing felting and yarn stuff, as well as generally helping out. They know I can't do heavy labour. They would really like to get the felting started this summer, rather than next, because (obviously) it would be good to have warm things to wear this coming winter.
Aikido summer camp is the first two weeks of August and I'd very much like to get to at least one week of that.
This would mean three weeks out of London, though, and no real opportunity to earn for any of it, which means I'm basically out a month's expenses plus travel fees and Aikido course fees (hopefully
hairyears will help with accomodation once I'm at Aikido camp, as he did last summer). I don't think I'll be busking by then but I may well be doing some audio typing or other work to make ends meet over the summer.I don't see how I can possibly manage to do this. It's just not financially viable. Also, my parents would quite like me to visit Canada at some point this summer, and no WAY can I do both, even though I'd prefer to go in the winter (because SNOW and stuff).
*sulk* I can't go to Dartington this summer; the playing is just too physically demanding, and while I'll probably have my horn stick by then (I hope I will anyway!), I'm not going to be in any shape to lug my instrument around up and down hills and stuff.
Tired of being po'.
One thing I am thinking of is something a bit like waht
naamah_darling did for the wolves, but for TUE instead, and instead of all profits being donated, having half of them donated and half go to the maker of the pretty things. It would be good publicity for TUE, it would be hopefully good fundraising for them, but also good publicity for anyone who decides to make stuff and donate it. And if I'm very lucky I might find that I make enough to actually get me there... Anyone interested?
mubeimmik? yellowrocket? claire_wain? Anyone else? Am I insane here?
