Vancouver Bloggers Bowl for Big Brothers
Some of you may have noticed the new addition to my side bar a smaller version of the 2008 Bowl for Big Brothers Classic badge below.
I participated in the Bowl for Big Brothers Classic back in 2000 and had a great time and being that although I could walk my other favourite charity events around the city they are supposed to be runs and I can not run right now, but I can bowl, and I love to bowl.
TEAM BLOGGER consists of:
Rebecca Bollwitt: Team Capitan aka Miss 604
Corinna [that is me] of Gus Greeper
John Bollwitt of JohnBollwitt Update your links! John has a new domain!
John Biehler of JohnBiehler
Keira-Anne of Keira-Anne She fooked her knee up real bad over the weekend so go send her some love!
Duane Storey of DuaneStorey
Phaedra McEachren of Memoirs of Me
Raul of Hummingbird604
Tod Maffin of todmaffin
I’ve sent an email or two to the Big Sisters and have never heard back from them, being recently inspired from running into some people from Terrace that I went to high school with, [seriously we are EVERYWHERE right now] and discovering that one of them is a Big Brother and has been for four years now he had this to say about his experience and his reasons for volunteering his time:
I thought it was time to give back to the community and growing up with a single Mom I figured Big Brothers was something i would like to do.
Turns out he called. I’m going to call. I think it will be interesting with my past to see whether they would even take me, could be why I never got any emails back. We will soon see. I will keep you posted.
This organization has also always been of interest to me because my father spent time as a Big Brother way back in the day and it comes up on a semi regular basis. My dad has also said I should call. My aversion to the phone is becoming almost phobic. I did make a point to talk on it yesterday though.
My father had this to say about his experience:
I was a big brother many years ago. It was in the early 70’s. I still remember my first little brother’ s name. Bobby Pallen. When I first started as a big brother, I assumed it would take a lot of time and cost a lot taking him places. What really happens is we mostly just hung out and did things. Play catch, go to the park, watch a movie. Just the same kinds of things that you would do with your own kids. Little brothers just want someone to give them some attention and spend some time with them. It is such a rewarding experience that more than 30 years later I still think about Bobby. I moved away and that was the reason I had to give up seeing Bobby.
We are bowling on March 16 at Xcalibur Bowling in Surrey. We all need your pledges please the easiest way to get to our individual pledge pages is through Miss604’s post. Or you can sponsor our team as a whole by clicking here. You can also reach my pledge page by clicking on the badge - top right in my side bar.
I set my goal at fifty dollars because I have to raise that to be able to bowl, but I would of course LOVE to raise more than that so I do ask for your help please dear blogging buddies and readers, anything you can offer is going to be greatly appreciated.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
this is gonna be fun, man….and I’m bringing Bobby…he can be the team mascot.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Tod, actually, not Todd.
It’s okay. I’ll take it out on the pins.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Holy crap you’re fast!
February 18th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
@Phaedra it is going to be fun if i can get the 50 dollars at least so that i can even BOWL!
cool the Bollwitt’s have a monkey and we have a monkey maybe we should all bring our monkeys!
@Tod no worries i understand the frustration most people spell mine wrong as well
February 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Thanks so much for the link love, Corinna!
This is going to be SO much fun! I suck at bowling, but I love laughing, and I am quite capable of laughing at myself
February 18th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Wow - I didn’t realize Phaedra had joined the team! So stoked at our line-up!
I believe that blog-less Amy is also joining us, but since she doesn’t have a blog, she can just be our mistress.
Also, I think that we should change the name from ‘Team Blogger’ to ‘Team Naked’ and all bowl in our birthday suits. Everyone on board with that one?
February 19th, 2008 at 12:08 am
@Raul no problem, looking forward to meeting you! i also love laughing, and laughing at myself. awesome.
@Keria-Anne good i was hoping Amy was still in. i have a birthday suit!!
February 19th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
[…] Corinna wrote a post about how the Big Brothers organization has touched her family’s life, and Tod Maffin wrote last night that we’ve already reached 50% of our goal - that’s not even including some of the offline donations. Tod was also kind enough to create a lovely banner for our team (above). Mission: To enhance the resiliency and well-being of children by involving them in high quality prevention-focused mentoring programs and by actively seeking to positively influence policies and programs that affect children’s social and emotional development. Vision: To put a mentor in the life of every child who needs one. Commitment to Diversity: Big Brothers embodies the principles of diversity and welcomes participants regardless of race, religion, culture or sexual orientation. [Big Brothers Vancouver] […]