Snowboarding

I had a great time during spring break skiing and snowboarding in France. I'm quite a good skier, but this was my first time on a snowboard. I did really well and my instructor told me I was the best beginner he ever taught. After two days, I did the red slopes and felt great. Unfortunately, I fractured my wrist on the last day - so I went home with a cast. It was quite exciting going down the slope in a sled, being met by an ambulance and go to the hospital. I was not in so much pain, so it wasn't too bad.

Inventing a bed protector

I came up with the idea to make a blanket to cover the bed during the days on period. I took a piece of fleece and two layers of flannel and made this little blanket to sleep on. I know that many girls have that problem with staining the sheets, so this might be a good solution!

Applying for funds

Every year, I apply for funds from the Swedish Society to give to Destiny. This year  I'll be applying for money to go to desks, chairs, blackboards and a bookshelf. This will go to the new rooms we bought. Last year we didn't get any money and I'm hoping for better luck this year. I really don't know why, because I worked hard for the Swedish society. I'm hoping they'll think I need a payoff for all my hard work this year. If I'm not getting anything this year, I will stop working for them att all the events. It will just not be worth it!

Washable pad film

When my moms cousin was here, we shot this film. It's an update on how the pad project is coming along. Even though there is some problems with the information on how to care for your pads, it is still a very positive update. I'm sure that the pads help the girls a lot and the alternative for them would be to put towels or pieces of cloth in their underwear, so it is still good. To teach them how to clean them properly is very important though. Some of them boil them, and that coagulates the blood. The way to do it is to first soak them in cold water and then wash them as they would their normal clothes. If they want to boil them, that might be OK as long as we use the metal snap buttons, but I'm not so sure the plastic ones would agree with that. I just have to plan on making some kind of informational leaflet to tell them how to do it, and just hope they will follow the instructions.

I'm quite impressed by Banish in Maries film. She has no problem at all to hang her pads to dry for the whole community to see. Take a look at the film on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1P04dyF4lU

Operations smile/Amazing race

Today I went to school to sell snacks. All the money we make is going to the Operations smile fundraiser. The Amazing race was a race around the school. I wasn't there for the actual race but I was there for the preparations. Throughout the school there were either games or people warming up for games. There was one football game on the lower field. Two basketball games on the basketball courts. And there seemed there was going to be a football tournament on the upper field. Lots of teams came and registered and almost all of the teams were wearing matching clothes. As we were selling food and preparing for the race to start we were playing music and a lot of people started dancing and we were just hanging out and having fun.

Lots of bags

I've been putting on snap buttons on pads and sewing bags today. There is about 40 small pads and 20 big left to sew, but I ran out of material. My mom is buying more on Monday, so I started with the bags. I've made 55 so far, but now I cut up about 50 more. I need to buy strings as well and but about 300 more buttons on the pads, but I can't do that until I get the 700 I ordered to England and to USA. I'll get those in the middle of next week. It is a bit irritating to run out of the material when I'm really getting into it!.

Factory

Here is an image on how our study looks right now. I'm glad my mom is helping out because it is really hard work to sew so many pads. The thing that takes time is cutting them. Sewing is quite quick. I'm also waiting to get the buttons, so right now these big piles of pads are not even done. I'm going to spend a week end to fix the buttons, but I still need to sew about 150 more pads. Hard work!