KICK OFF BREAKFAST
ANDREA, HARM AND I WENT TO THE KICK OFF BREAKFAST YESTURDAY. IT WAS GOOD WE GOT TO MEET A FEW MENTORS(WHICH ARE JUST NORMAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE A MARATHON AND HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO BASICALLY JUST BE THERE FOR YOU IF YOU NEED HELP OR TO TALK OR WHATEVER)
THEY ALSO HAD THE FOUNDER OF TEAM IN TRAINING GET UP AND SPEAK. ANOTHER REAL MOTIVATING SPEAKER WAS THIS GIRL WHO TOLD ABOUT HER FIRST YEAR IN COLLEGE SHE WAS A BENCH WARMER ON THE SOCCER TEAM AND THE ONLY GIRL THAT MADE HER FEEL LIKE SHE SHOULD BE THERE WAS A GIRL SHE ENDED UP BECOME BEST FRIENDS WITH. A YEAR AFTER THEY GRADUATED COLLEGE HER FRIEND GOT LEUKEMIA AND DIED. AFTER SHE DIED SHE WENT TO HER GRAVE AND PROMISED THAT SHE WOULD RAISE 100,000 DOLLARS FOR THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY. HER FRIEND DIED IN 1998. THIS COMING UP MARATHON IS HER 17TH EVENT AND SHE HAS RAISED 57,000 DOLLARS SO FAR. THREE WEEKS AGO HER MOTHER TOLD HER SHE HAS BRAIN CANCER. SO FOR ANYONE THAT IS NOT SURE THEY WANT TO DO THIS, I HOPE THIS STORY MIGHT CHANGE YOUR MIND AND ANYTIME YOU ARE TIRED OR DON'T FEEL LIKE RUNNING, REMEMBER WHAT THIS ONE GIRL HAS AND HAS BEEN DOING FOR HER FRIEND FOR 6 STRAIGHT YEARS. I THINK WE CAN SACRIFICE OUR TIME FOR 4 MONTHS.
HOPE EVERYONE IS DOING WELL!
THEY ALSO HAD THE FOUNDER OF TEAM IN TRAINING GET UP AND SPEAK. ANOTHER REAL MOTIVATING SPEAKER WAS THIS GIRL WHO TOLD ABOUT HER FIRST YEAR IN COLLEGE SHE WAS A BENCH WARMER ON THE SOCCER TEAM AND THE ONLY GIRL THAT MADE HER FEEL LIKE SHE SHOULD BE THERE WAS A GIRL SHE ENDED UP BECOME BEST FRIENDS WITH. A YEAR AFTER THEY GRADUATED COLLEGE HER FRIEND GOT LEUKEMIA AND DIED. AFTER SHE DIED SHE WENT TO HER GRAVE AND PROMISED THAT SHE WOULD RAISE 100,000 DOLLARS FOR THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY. HER FRIEND DIED IN 1998. THIS COMING UP MARATHON IS HER 17TH EVENT AND SHE HAS RAISED 57,000 DOLLARS SO FAR. THREE WEEKS AGO HER MOTHER TOLD HER SHE HAS BRAIN CANCER. SO FOR ANYONE THAT IS NOT SURE THEY WANT TO DO THIS, I HOPE THIS STORY MIGHT CHANGE YOUR MIND AND ANYTIME YOU ARE TIRED OR DON'T FEEL LIKE RUNNING, REMEMBER WHAT THIS ONE GIRL HAS AND HAS BEEN DOING FOR HER FRIEND FOR 6 STRAIGHT YEARS. I THINK WE CAN SACRIFICE OUR TIME FOR 4 MONTHS.
HOPE EVERYONE IS DOING WELL!
3 Comments:
At 5:30 PM,
Jenny said…
Thanks for posting that story. It's obvious that Leukemia has touched all of us. I'm not going to mention the obvious but, Brooke Edich recently died from Leukemia and my Mom's best friends husband has it and is doing really bad. He won't live longer than a year or two. Hearing that story and thinking about the others is great motivation. It's not about me or how tired I am and whether I feel like doing it, it's for something bigger.
At 6:05 PM,
Andrea said…
so Jenny SIGN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At 6:24 PM,
Jenny said…
LMAO!!!!!! I am talking to Jess S. tomorrow
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