It's been a while...

random pic of me in mexico :P

I had to retrieve the password to log-in here... it's definitely been a while since this place got abandoned as life just kept happening and I moved on. It's been about 17.5 month since the end of my charity:water campaign and a lot of you guys have been asking me about where the money really went!

If you know me in person, you'd know since this whole charity stint, I have quit my day job, went to pastry school, and started my backpacking trip around the world alone... BUT rest assured all the money you helped me raise went to the charities I was fundraising for!!!! and I'm just back here to say I received an email reply back from charity:water saying they will be sending out a report of the well at the end of this month! How very exciting!

It's taken them so long because typically they do not consider a project "complete" until they are sure that it is sustainable, and it normally takes them 18 months to follow up with reports. I'm pretty eager to see it on google earth and just to have a proper finale, and see the happy people who benefited from the clean water.

random pic of me on the salt flats - boliva

I'm still currently in the middle of traveling, back home in Brisbane just to pack up my gear and sell my remaining valuables to fund for the rest of my trip. It gets difficult when you haven't had income for over a year! But I'm doing something I will not regret, and it's been an interesting turn, something I definitely did not anticipate but was bound to happen. It's been great meeting up with Koiti's family who supported me all the way in Brazil during my South American journey.

I haven't baked for a while, and still crave for cake but steering towards a more health conscious diet lol... Anyway, keep a lookout on this spot for the mentioned "report" from charity:water in the near future.

xx, amy

I see the end of the tunnel...

First of all sorry to my loyal fans of this campaign/blog... I've been caught up, you know going out on the weekends, catching up on a few movies, sleeping a little more than usual, and still clearing cake orders... but haven't had the energy to update this blog yet, there are a few posts lined up... be patient :)

Anyway, I just wanted to quickly announce and remind everyone.. coz I haven't been very organised (nor had the actual time to do this), some may be confused about the "cost of attendance" since changes have been made in response to the unresponsiveness ... about the PICNIC that's coming up this SATURDAY!

I'm really not too fussed about it anymore, it came a bit too quickly, stressing over not having time to bake/cook/make water bombs is just too stressing, so it's going to be a casual day out, a picnic coz I like them and water bombs coz they can be cool. Invite anyone you wish, but I'd like to know numbers to cater for. Donations are now optional, but it's still a charity event, I would be pissed off if everyone takes advantage of the free food. But if you have nothing better to do on the day I hope to see you there, I just want everyone to have some fun, some cake, some sun, chuck a few water bombs around or at each other or at annie, eat some more cake and help spread the word about the global water crisis, if you can, it'll make you feel fuzzy.

There'll be an anonymous donation jar for anyone who wishes to donate on the day.
Let me know before Friday, whenever, actually I don't care.

That's all from me, for now.
Be fuzzy.

x. amy