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Relay for Life, 2007
So here's the update I promised my supporters - thanks Mum and Uncle Gordon! Also, a big thanks to my lovely flatmate Veronique for putting so much time and effort into getting our team together.
I'll start with some stats:
980 of us turned up to the UCSD branch of this worldwide event, and raised over $63,000 for the US Cancer Society! Awesome, huh? Again, I wanna say a huge MUCHO GRACIAS to my mum and Uncle Gordon for contributing towards that.
Together, our team walked for 24 hours, usually two at a time, so I guess you could say we did about a total of 48 hours of walking.
Here endeth the stats.
So obviously there was a big turnout; here are some more of the highlights:
- watching the cancer survivors do the beginning lap.
- the huge "H-O-P-E" spelt out of hundreds of luminarias on the bleachers (see photo album).
- luminarias with touching messages around the track (see mine in the pic next to this entry on the "blog" page).
And on a less serious note:
- cardboard car racing! Even though we came last, we officially won. Not quite sure how that works, but maybe cos we were the biggest car, the only one made up of three people?! (Again, see photo album.)
- my 2-3a.m. shift. Not sure why this is a highlight but I figure I should put it here. I was so confused and had no idea what was going on when I first got woken up in my tent to start it, but I eventually managed to wake up a little more, though I still don't think I was the bext conversationalist for my walking partner. Sorry John!
- Veronique's amazing organisational skills, meaning we had scheduled hours to walk, and were free to do whatever, including leaving the track to pick up stuff we'd forgotten back home (as it was so nearby) or grab food.
- the guy playing the cello as he skateboarded round the track, along with one or two other musicians. Legend!
- our fun laps: piggy-backing (thank goodness Joy's so light!), somersaulting (not the whole lap!), backwards, skipping (not the whole lap either... my fitness levels aren't quite up to it!) etc.
A couple of low-lights:
- the guy (or girl?) who decided to drive his (or her) car around the track people were trying to walk on, obviously unofficially, and toot toot toot while I was trying to sleep. Needless to say they got asked to leave pretty soon.
- the sprinklers which decided to go off sometime during my 2-3a.m. shift, on one side of the centre field people were camping on. Thankfully that was the other side to where we were. Or so we thought. About five minutes later they went off on our side. Turns out they go off in 5-minute rotations. So we shifted one of our tents which was near a wet patch to the sprinkler-free centre. Just before the centre sprinklers decided to go off too. Aaah!
Once again, thanks so much to my sponsors (and everyone elses')!!
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