Soccer Fever!
27 June 2010
The bug got me, or I caught the bug- not sure which way around it goes, but I do know that this is one of the first big world sporting events that has captured my heart. And not just mine. As I look around me at my family, my friends and even just people I pass by on the streets, people have embraced the 2010 World Cup and are making the most of the festivities!
The amount of gees, or spirit, that people have shown for not only being the host of the World Cup, but also for our country South Africa, has been a delightful surprise. Like the person who covered their car with flags! And my mom who decorated her dustbin. And the fans who got dressed up and made makarapa's in their country's style. Even Rod the Frog snuck into a few games with me.
So, I got to freeze (and I mean freeze with the temperature reaching minus 5 degrees Celsius) while watching Brazil beat Korea DPR at Ellis Park. Then I had a wonderful and warm afternoon in the sun enjoying Argentina's skill on the Soccer City field, as they beat Korea Republic with their fans singing over the drums of Korea and the vuvuzelas of Africa. And Mongezi and I ran around Loftus and enjoyed the spoils of the hospitality suite when we watched Denmark against Cameroon, thanks to Brand South Africa.
My hope is that we can remember this team spirit that we all feel for Team South Africa, and carry on being ambassadors of our country going forward for many years after the World Cup has left this beautiful, raw and alive land of ours!
Ke nako!
Labels: ayoba, world cup 2010
posted by Telana @ 1:58:00 PM,
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I need 236 more people
18 June 2010
So I got up to mischief this Youth Day...
My accomplice Carol and I headed out with a boot full of spraypaint and a tin of white paint.
We found a spot on the Graffiti wall and this is our latest masterpiece- (by no means a master Graffiti masterpiece, but for two amateurs, I think we did ok. We've still got a lot to learn!)
I have quite a few exciting offers waiting for me to explore, but I can only do so once I have finished this tenth trade of the Springleap T-shirts.
So, I'm looking for 236 more fabulous people to trade with me, and have their photo up on this page, with the other 139 people who have already traded with me (you're such stars!) so that I would have traded all 375 T-shirts.
If you saw the graffiti and it lead you to this page, and you don't know what I am talking about, then take a minute to read this 2-pager or watch the "one matchstick, the Movie" movie:
To trade with me, all you need to do is go to Springleap.com and choose ANY T-shirt, and put in the coupon code onematchstick (all lower case, one word) so that we can track that you have traded just R183 of your cash with me for one of my 375 Springleap T-shirts. Springleap is facilitating this trade, and will then courier to your door your T-shirt. Then email me your order number so I can track it too!
It's that easy to be a part.
And if you realllly don't want a T-shirt, then consider one of the many Three-way trades I have been offered.
Any questions? Just leave a comment or sms me on 0837302979 or tweet me @telana.
Cool beans.
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posted by Telana @ 8:37:00 PM,
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Baobab Balls for just the cost of two Tshirts
I met Lindsay Grubb a few months ago when I was asked to be a Director of Young Business South Africa - a great organisation which is developing our youth into strong business leaders of tomorrow. (I'm heading up the Entrepreneur Portfolio - awesomeness! Check them out on Facebook and twitter!). Lindsay is our super efficient administrator, and she keeps things running smoothly at YBSA.
She is also a freelance writer and has just started her own blog- it's all about helping you through the hiccups and sharing in the giggles!
Lindsay has offered me baobab balls.
Yes- 30 baobab balls. She did so on Facebook, here's how she made me her offer:
(view the video on youtube here)
Baobab balls are actually the seed pods of these magnificent trees, which ladies from a rural community have decorated in black and white geometric patterns. These patterns vary from ball to ball, making for striking ornaments!
And what is also interesting, is this fruit is very nutritious – it has more calcium than cows milk and more Vitamin C than oranges, so is used in porridge, as sweets, to thicken soups, and even fermented into seasoning!
The baobab fruit balls that Lindsay is offering were actually used at the gala opening event for the Cultural Calabash arts festival held in Taung, North West Province in September 2006. This premier rural arts festival is a year-long event that gives a creative outlet to previously disadvantaged artists. It culminates in a major festival in September, at which these Baobab balls were the centre pieces for the evening. Cool hey!?
There are approximately 30 of them and Lindsay purchased them from a supplier that attempts to uplift local rural communities by purchasing items from local community initiatives.
Lindsay is asking for just two T-shirts for these Baobab Balls- that means it will cost you just R402 to own them all (they are valued at R800!)
(Remember how Three-way Trades work? If not, check out this page here).
So, if you'd like your very own Baobab Balls, then call me on 083 730 2979 or email me. Ta!
You'll get 30 baobab Balls.
Lindsay will get two T-shirts.
I'll be two more T-shirts closer to finishing my tenth trade!
Labels: baobab, lindsay grubb, ybsa
posted by Telana @ 6:45:00 PM,
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I dont know how to make this offer work- Help!
10 June 2010
I was made an offer a few months ago that I havent found a way yet to make it work... so maybe someone reading this will have a great idea and can help me come up with a way forward.
My friend Charl works for SAB, and we were chatting at a party about my Springleap T-shirt trade. He then offered a few beers- well, nearly 500 beers actually!
Charl said he is keen to see me succeed with trading this matchstick into an office, and his way of helping is to sponsor 2 beers per T-shirt that I trade. So the idea would be that when someone trades for me for a T-shirt, they also get two beers sponsored by SAB.
Fabulous hey! Only thing is the logistics.
You see, Eran and Eric of Springleap are not only trading 375 of their funky T-shirts with me for the Party with DJ Al you Pal, but they are also facilitating my next trade as I trade on each of the T-shirts with 375 people. So far they have helped me trade on 129 T-shirts, leaving me with 246 to go.
What this means is that when you trade with me for one of the T-shirts, you "purchase the T-shirt through the Springleap website, using the coupon code onematchstick so that we can track it's a trade with me, and then Springleap are delivery the T-shirt to your door by courier! Logistics of the T-shirt trades is taken care of.
Now to take advantage of Charls offer of sponsoring 2 beers per T-shirt as an extra incentive to trade with me, somehow I need to get the beers to the trader. The logistics of delivering the 2 beers to each person has become a problem, because we cant courier the beer to each person who trades with me.
When Charl made his offer I came up with the idea of distributing the beers at an event – so if you traded with me, and then went to the event, you would be able to collect your two free beers sponsored by Charl. At the time of Charl making his offer, my favourite South African band was playing in the background at the party, and feeling all inspired by their music and Charl’s offer, I decided to ask them if they would allow me to distribute the beers at one of their concerts.
After a few weeks of putting together a proposal and finding someone who knew the band and who knew someone I knew (I ended up finding three people who I knew who knew someone who knew the band- talk about 6 degrees of separation!), I nervously picked up the phone and called one of the members of the band.
He loved the idea of one matchstick, but after another few weeks of waiting and waiting, he came back to me saying that they couldn't find a way to help me as it conflicted with their existing sponsors of their concerts...What a disappointment! But how awesome that I got to speak with my favourite South African band and have their best wishes for my trading project!
So... here I am... a few weeks later still racking my brain as to how to make Charls offer work.
Maybe you have an idea?
Maybe you know of another band that would be keen to see my proposal? I negotiated a nice deal too that includes a special offer from Springleap for a band, so its a sweet deal.
Or maybe you have an event happening or some other way that I could get the beers delivered to people who trade with me?
If so, please do get in touch and lets chat! I could do with some fresh thinking on this offer, to make it work!
Call me on 083 730 2979 or email onematchstick@gmail.com. Thanks- any suggestions will be much appreciated.
posted by Telana @ 9:27:00 PM,
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