Our Beginning!!! - Nish

I couldnt really pinpoint where we started this amazing adventure. But i do remember that Rachel came to us with this fabulous prof. Dr. David Jordan who she loved and he had founded this organization called Seven Hills Foundation which was designed to assist people who had any disabilities. The foundation had decided to do a global outreach to the 3 most represented countries in their organization, Ghana, Kenya and Sierra Leone. There was a meeting for Ghana, and initially we didnt even think we could go to ghana, i mean who gets the opportunity to go to GHANA! so, we just wanted to help out, do our part you know "community service", raising money for the kids at the school in Accra, the New Horizon special school. But one thing led to another....and well we now have the opportunity to go to Ghana. Its an amazing opportunity to do something meaningful for other people, i know it sounds so cliche, but i have a way of being cliche and im ok with that. So basically we are now fundraising to go to Ghana !!!!! The first fundraising concept are these beautiful bracelets that the other girls, namely Nikki, Rachel and Alexa are creating. Seriously....absoultely beautiful. I did attempt it, but i just dont have those creative juices running through me, instead i have a ocd planner thing going on. Anyway we also decided to do a bakesale (rachel found her new passion for funfetti cupcakes) and so we baked...baked...and baked and sold our delicious (and they were) baked goodies at the HipHop Collabo fall show this past semester. And i cant lie i was a little skeptical, because seriously how much money can you really make from a bake sale. BUT i was surprised and i loved it....that weekend we made just about $1,000!!! Wait in case you glazed over that part i said WE MADE $1,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was amazing and such a confidence booster for us ladies. And basically this blog will hopefully be a window into our lives as we continue to fundraise and also into our time in Ghana. Oh i should also mention the fabulous ladies who are part of this project, who are some of my best friends (again another cliche, you will love) So there's Rachel, our connection to Dr.j; Nikki, the most creative person in the world (well to me); Karleen, whose enthusiasm and patience is ridiculous; Elena, who has some experience in the fundraising dept (she did habitat); Alexa, the only underclassman and i love that she is so into this; Ashley, now this girl has some experience in the beautiful continent of africa; Johnna, who just knows what she wants and gets it and of course me.....and im just...well judge for yourself :) so...stay tuned.......