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Guys, I need your help.
So for the past few months I've been trying to decide whether or not I can afford to go to this music therapy conference in Illinois this October. Truth is, I really can't pay for it alone. I'm doing my best to keep my use of OSAP at a minimum, and blowing $500 on this conference . . . I just can't do it.
BUT I HAVE A NEW PROJECT. It's called Sing it Forward.
The idea is that the lovely people of the Internet (unfortunately I cannot share this with my mother yet because she would try to stop me from going as I am going alone--but to be fair, I never really had a rebellious stage, so I may as well do this while I can still call myself a teenager) can donate money to me via Paypal or credit card and I will pay it forward by donating time volunteering at a charitable organization (two hours per $50 of donation money for a total of twenty hours if I actually manage to raise the full $500) and by completing a series of challenges.
At $50, I will attempt to give myself a vacuum cleaner hickey.
At $100, I will convince 50 strangers to dance with me.
At $150, I will dress up as a giant slice of pizza and sing in public for one hour.
At $200, I will consume one shot of ketchup by itself.
At $250, I will shave my legs … in an elevator.
At $300, I will watch one full hour of Nyan Cat. And nothing else.
At $350, I will spend an entire day with “Please don’t look at this zit!” and an arrow pointing to a zit on my face.
At $400, I will write a song about my most embarrassing moment and perform it in a public space.
At $450, I will blenderize a Wendy’s Baconator with heavenly hash ice cream and Sunny D, then drink it.
At $500, I will shave my head (if long enough, the hair will be donated to Wigs for Kids).
If it doesn't work out (if there's a family emergency, I don't raise enough money, it turns out I have a midterm during the conference, etc.), I'm going to donate anything I've received to AMTA, since that's where it would go anyway.
But basically, I really need help with these donations. If any of you can and want to donate even five bucks, that would be incredibly helpful. You can do so here. I'm going to post pictures and videos of everything on this Tumblr page. And even if you can't donate (which I totally understand, trust me), if there's anyone you know that you think would want to do so, it'd be super-amazing if you could tell them.
It would mean the world to me if I could go to this. Illinois is relatively close (as in, it will take me like a day to get there via Greyhound), and I don't know that I'll ever have an opportunity like this again. I want to know what American music therapy is like so that I can think seriously about whether or not I want to move to the States (pretty sure not, but still), and one of my favourite Tumbloggers is doing a speech about feminism in music therapy. How could I possibly not go to this?
BUT I HAVE A NEW PROJECT. It's called Sing it Forward.
The idea is that the lovely people of the Internet (unfortunately I cannot share this with my mother yet because she would try to stop me from going as I am going alone--but to be fair, I never really had a rebellious stage, so I may as well do this while I can still call myself a teenager) can donate money to me via Paypal or credit card and I will pay it forward by donating time volunteering at a charitable organization (two hours per $50 of donation money for a total of twenty hours if I actually manage to raise the full $500) and by completing a series of challenges.
At $50, I will attempt to give myself a vacuum cleaner hickey.
At $100, I will convince 50 strangers to dance with me.
At $150, I will dress up as a giant slice of pizza and sing in public for one hour.
At $200, I will consume one shot of ketchup by itself.
At $250, I will shave my legs … in an elevator.
At $300, I will watch one full hour of Nyan Cat. And nothing else.
At $350, I will spend an entire day with “Please don’t look at this zit!” and an arrow pointing to a zit on my face.
At $400, I will write a song about my most embarrassing moment and perform it in a public space.
At $450, I will blenderize a Wendy’s Baconator with heavenly hash ice cream and Sunny D, then drink it.
At $500, I will shave my head (if long enough, the hair will be donated to Wigs for Kids).
If it doesn't work out (if there's a family emergency, I don't raise enough money, it turns out I have a midterm during the conference, etc.), I'm going to donate anything I've received to AMTA, since that's where it would go anyway.
But basically, I really need help with these donations. If any of you can and want to donate even five bucks, that would be incredibly helpful. You can do so here. I'm going to post pictures and videos of everything on this Tumblr page. And even if you can't donate (which I totally understand, trust me), if there's anyone you know that you think would want to do so, it'd be super-amazing if you could tell them.
It would mean the world to me if I could go to this. Illinois is relatively close (as in, it will take me like a day to get there via Greyhound), and I don't know that I'll ever have an opportunity like this again. I want to know what American music therapy is like so that I can think seriously about whether or not I want to move to the States (pretty sure not, but still), and one of my favourite Tumbloggers is doing a speech about feminism in music therapy. How could I possibly not go to this?
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exhausted
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