Art

OK, I have been working on some origami/beading art and it actually looks pretty cool. I found a little flea market that i am going to try to sell it at in a few weeks after I build up my inventory of stuff. I also plan on making friendship bracelets, so it should be fun. I plan on posting some pictures in the near future of the things I am making and I will post more information on where the flea market is at a later date.

Also, after many hours of trial and error, I got AdSense to work...well my mom got it to work. It's a good thing she is so good with html codes...we could easily say that web design is not a likely career path for me.

*drum roll* The First Quest Bar

ok, here we go..this is the quest bar where every thing looks half empty..well way more than half empty...but thats OK! it will fill up as time passes until I get to go on my trip. To clear up any questions, This represents the money i have for this trip compared to the money i need for it.

A bit of work on goal 1

OK, in my first description of this goal, i was pretty brief so right now i am going to go into more detail about the money. The tuition fee is 6,990 American dollars, however this is not including airfare to and from Ecuador, so i have asked around and done some research on the airfare and came to the conclusion that i should assume that the combined total for the entire trip will be around 10,000 USD....That's a lot of money (for me) For the past few days i have been brainstorming with the help of a few friends and came up with some options to help me along my way. ...i will list them below( you will find that i like making lists when i am trying to figure things out)

1. I will install 'AdSense" into this blog ...if i am lucky i will get around 1,200 from that per year if enough people click on the ads i put up (i shall put these up as soon as possible).

2.Tutor people in languages- me and fishfulthinking are toying around with tutoring people in languages because she can teach Chinese and Spanish, and i can teach French and Hebrew (which includes Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutoring) being that we have not started this yet, I cannot predict whether or not i can make any money from this.

3. Art- i love making arts such as origami, beading, and painting (but mostly the former) so i am building up an inventory to sell at a flea market or art fair. Again, i cannot factor in any profit because this is just an idea.

4. Instead of any holiday or birthday gifts, i am going to ask my family to help fund my international voyage.

5.I am going to be a super-saver~ I am actually already pretty good at this. I tend to be a money stasher, but i am going to cut the number of movies I see in the next few years because i spend around two hundred dollars on movie tickets per year, and if I plan to do this, I'm going to need that money.
6. I am going to have to think up new ideas- this would be much easier if I had a job, also, if you have any good ideas, i would love to hear them

Getting Started

I have officially decided that i am going to Equador and the Galapagos Islands on a National Geographics trip. I am uncontrollably excited because i adore penguins and this trip would give me the oppurtunity to swim, or more specifically SCUBA dive with penguins in their natural habitat! Unfortunately, going on this trip is not as easy as I wish it could be, hence all the preparations i need to make and the reason i made this blog to begin with. This blog is going to be the documentation of me working towards one of my dreams, and completing a few goals that i will list shortly. My goals for going on this trip are:

1. raising the money-nothing in life is free (hmph) and if I want to go on this trip, I need to sponser it myself. I plan to keep an updated questbar on this topic.

2. learning some Spanish- i take French and school and have no intentions of quitting, so i need to find time to learn some beginner Spanish. Also, although it is not required to go on the trip, i feel that this skill is nescessary to get as much as I can out of the trip. Finally, what would I do if I got separated from the group or lost? I'm sure that there would be SOMEBODY around who can speak English, but frankly, I like to look as least touristy as possible, and i would feel incredibly insecure having no idea where i was going, which leads us into goal number 3.

3. Learn the geography-this is rather simple. I intend to look at maps and flight diagrams so I know exactly where I will be going. This also ties in with knowing what the time zone difference will be, and being prepared with the right types of shoes for the terrain.