30th October Raymond Terrace Base Camp
ride4acure team visited Seaham Primary School yesterday afternoon. What a fantastic group of students and teachers. We had a lively presentation engaging with the students who when asked in the ‘wrap up’ who learnt something new today every hand inthe room shot up enthusiastically! Seaham Primary School very generously made a $200 donation to ride4acure which is awesome.
A few of the year 5 students at Seaham were a wee bit green when they were asking Joe about being on the ride with me and having some time off school to do it! Joe is keeping a journal (at this stage it is a very, very, very brief journal, with a total of 250 words!) However he has sent his first installment to his class and did half an hours maths online!
We’re off to do a presentation this morning at Curves Gym in Heatherbrae and a fundraising morning tea.
Have spent hours this morning unsuccessfuly trying to update the powerpoint, what has actually happened it has become a meditation in staying calm. Nothing has worked as I’m using a new little computer with a different version of powerpoint than my one at home and am unsure of my way around it, so therefore the opportunity to become increasingly frustrated has been high!
Very thick fog this morning until 8am which is a no go for cyclists. When I was training I had a few days up on Walcha mountain, got caught out riding high and a fog came in with nil visibility. Very scary being unable to see traffic. So thick fogs and thunderstorms are my only no go zones with riding. I won’t be any good to anyone as a traffic accident cycling statistic! My cycling gear (other than the pants all black, only selection is black, black or black) is super high visibility, have been told by a few members of my family rather close to me who love me dearly – that I look like a glow in the dark freako….however at least I’m a visible freako!
October 31st, 2009 at 10:44 am
Hello Maura
Tonight, my daughter Katie (10yrs) and her school mates raised $250 towards the Hannah Rose Melanoma Research, supporting your ride 4 a cure. We collected while Halloweening, and had let all our neighbourhood know what we were doing beforehand. We read about your story while holidaying in Crescent Head a couple of weeks back, and thought we could make something usefull out of the lolly filled halloween. Our neighbourhood was happy to help out and pround of Katie and her friends for doing such a thing. We are so moved by your and Hannahs story, we hope this goes a little way towards such a enormous task. All the best with your ride. I will follow the web prompts and get this donation to you.
Suzi from Bulli