Bollywood Dancing and Ibuprofen

Another fantastic day of planning!

Janet and I have spent a few hours brainstorming our grant proposal again.  It changes eveytime we talk about it.  With a bit of constructive critizism (Rosie, thank you!) we have decided that our original proposal was a bit OTT. Totally unrealistic in terms of time.  So we have slimmed it down a little.  Our project is now going to be themed 'Our World thorough Story Telling', this makes more sense.  Seven continents, books and associated artefacts.  Obviously its not that simple.  The resources list alone is going to be vast, we need to raise the money, source the products, order the products and then ship the products to India. We really are going to be on a tight schedual.  But if anyone can do it, we can do it.

We headed off to Watford at 2.30pm today, looking for a little bit of Bollywood.  Well, what a  drama! We turned up to find a sparkly 'Bollywood' dancer stressing in the carpark of the Centrepoint Community centre, this turned out to be Gopi, the lady who runs the Love Bollywood Dance Troupe and dance school. Watford council had booked her to take part in a community fun day and Janet and I were going to see if we could sweet talk her into performing at our fundraiser.  Gopi and her dancers had turned up to find the community centre locked up.  I was a bit gutted to say the least.  So while she was stressing and frantically trying to contact the events co-ordinator, Janet popped into the shop and bought nan bread and a pint of milk??? and I strolled over to the community centre to read the flyers in the window. There staring at me was a poster, inviting the local community to a family fun day.  I called Gopi over. Gopi I said,' Your at the wrong venue'.  Panic over but with only minutes to spare we all got back into our cars and rushed to Meriden Community Centre. Ten minuted later we were sitting in a hall watching Gopi perform. It was lovely.  So to cut a long story short... We have asked Gopi to perform at our fundraiser. I just have to email her the details. Fingers crossed she is free on the 2nd April.

We also decided today to organise a sponsored silence. Yes SILENCE....... Janet and I silent. Silent meaning no talking. Well this could be a challenge. More details to follow on this unrealistic idea. lol.

I have also today, finalised the invitations for our Indian Themed Dinner Dance and these have now gone to print. We have 150 tickets to sell at £15 each.


Karen x