• 30-31 August Roadtrip to Sendai baseball game and overnight in Sendai.
• 6 September Scavenger Hunt ending at AJET Welcome Party in Shichinohe
• 9 October EofA Information Night
• 25 October Halloween Party.
• 14-16 November Art Exhibition and charity sale
• 20 November Mid-Year Seminar Talent Show and “Services”Auction
• 21/22 February Casino Night and Valentines Ball
• 14 March Futsal and bake sale followed by AJET St. Paddy’s Party.
• 23 April-8 May 2 week trip to Nepal to volunteer teach and take in the sights.
• 20-21 June Trivia Weekend.
Talent show / Anti-Slavery Slave Auction, Hachinohe (Aomori Prefecture, 21 November 2007)
A HUGE thank you to all who came out to the E of A Talent Show/Services Auction last Wednesday night!!!
After all the auction bids are in we will have raised over 30man for Everest of Apples, so way to go Aomori!!!!
I`ll be e-mailing auctionees and bidders individually about the auction and how to furikomi the bids to E of A.
Again- many thanks to all who helped make this event a success!!!!!
-Jody
Everest of Apples Scavenger Hunt (Aomori Prefecture, 1 September 2007)
Coming to you from the five-riverbanks-place, here is the wrap-up of the 1st Everest of Apples Aomori Scavenger Hunt!
Apple Lovers,
Held on September 1st, this challenging event led teams from all over the ken all over the ken! ;P Involving nine teams, this heated competition challenged Aomoricans new and old to find the things worth seeing in Aomori. In an informal, and highly biased poll, everyone was accounted to have a good time (except for maybe the team that got distracted halfway through!). Some ancient Aomori-dwellers even credited the Scavenger Hunt for showing them things about Aomori that they never knew were there!
Now, for the long-awaited final results....... DRUMROLL PLEASE!!
In third place was the delightful Miss Anna Irwin's team, who netted a grand total of 880 points, all without going further north than Hachinohe!
In second place was the intrepid Miss Helen Master's team, who scored a spectacular 920 points in an epic odyssey from Hirosaki to Shichinohe!
And finally, the First Place Team, scoring a variety of Fabulous Prizes, was Miss Becky Koob's team, consisting of Mr. Steven MacWinnie, Miss Becks Behrendt, Miss JoAnn Cho, and Miss Dana Berte! In a high-speed chase around the ken, this team scored the absolutely unbelievable total of 1180 points!
They will be the recipients of said Fabulous Prizes.
Finally, this event raised a wonderful JPN¥32,000 for Everest of Apples, and hopefully helped our fresh-off-the-boat young'uns and our grizzled old-timers to make bonds of friendship which will last them their whole lives!
And that's it, hope everyone enjoyed this year's Aomori Scavenger Hunt!
Teri
Everest of Apples Halloween Party (Hachinohe, 27 October 2007)
Thanks to all of y'all who came out to Hachinohe on Saturday night and partied with us at Oldies! The party was a huge success! Final tallies are being made but right now it looks like the party raised over ¥80,000 for the Prajwal school!
Thanks to those who entered the Halloween Costume Contest - together you guys helped us raise over ¥20,000! For those of you who missed the announcement Saturday Night -
First Place: Karen Retter as Ebi Sushi
Second Place: Brett Kelly as the Hamburglar
Third Place: Mark Beese as the Big Red Eye thingy
Fourth Place: Helen Masters and Stephen Pendlebury as Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter
Fifth Place: Teri Smith as a Wild Thing
Sixth Place: Marti Deyo and guest (sorry, forgot your name!) as a pirate and Spiderman (?) respectively
Seventh Place: Julia as Vampire Woman
I hope you all had a FABULOUS time on Saturday!
-Jody
