Sonntag, Februar 25, 2007
It's been a while...
...since I have last posted here. And there haven't even been that many news in the meantime.
I've been to London and come back. I've had the results for my exams back, all without any major excitements. The new term started and is looking very interesting so far, although it'll be a lot of work.
This last week, and this is maybe the most interesting bit, I've lived off one pound a day. The One World society that I am quite active in organised this. From Monday on, fourteen of us spent no money and "accepted no charity" - which involved not eating any food we had stored before, not taking any free food from anyone and essentially not eating anything that was not bought from our seven pounds for the week. We cooked together and ate together, and while we never ran short of food, we did have an awful lot of chickpeas, beans and lentils, and porridge every morning. The idea behind all this is to raise awareness of poverty in the world; half the world lives on less than a pound.
How successful we are is of course debatable. We are still having fresh, clean water for free. We are also still living in houses and sleep in proper beds, and don't take any of this into account. At the end of the day, I hope we managed to raise awareness even just a bit this week by walking around town in our brown hoodies with our message clearly on the back. We also raised a fair amount of money for charity, I hope - but then how much it'll be in total we'll know in the next few weeks, when people have collected the money from their sponsors. If you want to read a little more about it, we have a webpage up at onepoundaday.com as well.
Once I turn my laptop back on again after a week of having it off, I will try to get some of the pictures from London and the days around it onto my computer, and then to upload some. For the moment, I can't wait to have chips and cheese just after midnight and then go drinking for the one hour that pubs will still be open...
Current Music:Wicked (the musical) - Defying Gravity (although I'm only humming it, using my iPod is another thing I gave up for this week...)
I've been to London and come back. I've had the results for my exams back, all without any major excitements. The new term started and is looking very interesting so far, although it'll be a lot of work.
This last week, and this is maybe the most interesting bit, I've lived off one pound a day. The One World society that I am quite active in organised this. From Monday on, fourteen of us spent no money and "accepted no charity" - which involved not eating any food we had stored before, not taking any free food from anyone and essentially not eating anything that was not bought from our seven pounds for the week. We cooked together and ate together, and while we never ran short of food, we did have an awful lot of chickpeas, beans and lentils, and porridge every morning. The idea behind all this is to raise awareness of poverty in the world; half the world lives on less than a pound.
How successful we are is of course debatable. We are still having fresh, clean water for free. We are also still living in houses and sleep in proper beds, and don't take any of this into account. At the end of the day, I hope we managed to raise awareness even just a bit this week by walking around town in our brown hoodies with our message clearly on the back. We also raised a fair amount of money for charity, I hope - but then how much it'll be in total we'll know in the next few weeks, when people have collected the money from their sponsors. If you want to read a little more about it, we have a webpage up at onepoundaday.com as well.
Once I turn my laptop back on again after a week of having it off, I will try to get some of the pictures from London and the days around it onto my computer, and then to upload some. For the moment, I can't wait to have chips and cheese just after midnight and then go drinking for the one hour that pubs will still be open...
Current Music:Wicked (the musical) - Defying Gravity (although I'm only humming it, using my iPod is another thing I gave up for this week...)
# posted by derniko : 18:50
