This week was more low key than the last one, but even so we managed to do a lot. We got our presentation assignments from Bike&Build, continued to train (almost) every day and were successfully interviewed about our upcoming summer plans.
At Earthstock last week, we met Samantha Olson, a grad student at Stony Brook who (very generously) decided to interview us about our experiences with B&B so far. Since Annamaria and I were interviewed a couple months ago by our friend Leah Winfield for the Stony Brook radio station, we are old hands at these kinds of things (she said... very pretentiously). For my part, I felt pretty awkward trying to get the words to come out of my mouth in a sensible order. I do believe, though, that we managed to get through the entire interview without completely embarrassing ourselves. After she talked to us, she got a couple clips of us riding our bikes and then we were done! She also said that she was going to send the interview to the editor of Newsday and then get back to us, so we are extremely excited about this possible fundraising opportunity.
We also got an e-mail from our fearless leaders about part of the sweat equity that is required before we can suit up to bike and build across the country. The Affordable Housing (AH) Curriculum is a lesson plan that helps us learn all there is about the affordable housing problem across America. Here is a snapshot of what the curriculum entails:
Before May 30th, each of you will
- Volunteer for a local AH organization at a build site (we have already started on this point - Hooray!)
- Research that AH organization and interview someone who works for it
- Interview a family/homeowner who has benefited from that AH organization
- Create a presentation on the AH organization and the family/homeowner
- Research AH issues and fun facts in 2 towns on our route
These bullet points about affordable housing will definitely make us more aware of the impact AH organizations have on families and on employees/volunteers for the cause. The research on AH issues in 2 towns will be pretty interesting/useful as well - every morning during our pump up routine the person with that day's destination will tell the rest of us a little bit about the town we will be going to. This might be my favorite part of the research we are assigned to do before the summer because learning about new places and then traveling to those places is an awesome way to spend time.
Our towns -
Annamaria: Hannibal, MO and Eurika, NV
Kathryn: Wellston, OH and Montrose, CO
On a different note, due to sudden popularity we have decided to extend the deadline of our Doctor Who raffle by TWO FULL WEEKS. So don't forget to enter to win a beautiful handmade DW quilt, a fully funtional Sonic Screwdriver, or a TARDIS key chain!
As always, we are massively grateful to everyone who has donated (time/money/patience) so far, and hope that everyone will tell all their friends about the AH cause.
More soon -
KAS
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