Girl Skate Camp- Malmö!

Next weekend it is time for Bryggeriet to arrange their fifth girl skate camp. It is the third time for me and I'm super excited since I always have a really good time! Just a bunch of skater girls from all over Sweden that get together for a weekend full of skate, good food and hang out!

I will bring my camera and try to get some footage for the movie and some photos for the blog.

Ha det gött!

re: VANS!

Last night I got a reply from VANS. They said that if I wanted a sponsorship/dornation from them I had to write a letter and send to them and it had to contain a certai information. I would be contacted by them if they decided to sponsor me. I will start working on that later this week and see how it goes.

VANS!

Just wrapping up an e-mail to Vans were I ask them to sponsor me with some shoes! Vans is one of my favourite brands so it would be really awesome to get sponsored by them!

Keeping my fingers crossed and wait for an answer!

Design

Have just started working with some basics on the design. Nothing fancy at all but at least there is something more then justa blue text against a white background. I will try and work on it a bit more later on, but as for now, I really want to put my energy into other things!

Another sponsor and Nairobi

Found out today that MAXI agreed to sposnsor us! That is all I know for know and I'll probably found out what, when and how tomorrow, but I'm happy about it nonetheless.

We have also decided to go to Nairobi for a few days. We will go by train (Mombasa Express). It is a 14 hour trip one way and it is only 440 km, but it is cheap and it's also one of the most famous train rides. You get to see almost all of Kenya so I'm really excited about that. I am also keeping contact with some skaters that live in Nairobi so I'll probably get to skate with them and show up skateboarding and GIRL skateboarding aswell.

Maxi, ÖB and Willys

Today we went by Maxi and ÖB again after getting there just after the store managers had gone home. So today we gave it another try and we started of with Maxi. He sounded very positive about sponsoring us and promised he would contact us at midday tomorrow at the latest. But both ÖB and Willys said they didn't do any sponsoring at all and said they couldn't help us. We are still waiting to hear from Hemmakväll but when we stopped by yesterday she said she haven't had any time to look into it, but that she will do it soon!

New design and a tip from my dad!

Started working on a new design for this blog and it will hopefully be up and running quite soon. My friend Yo promised to help me out and since her previous work has been amazing I think she can really give this a boost (but I will maybe end up changing the blogs platfrom).

I also got a great tip from my dad today. Since he has good contacts in many big businesses he said I should start an account and then send a message around facebook (that he would help spread arround) so people can donate as much as they like, it could be 1 crown or 1000 crown, every little crown is welcome! I think this sounded like a good idea and I'll try to get it done by tomorrow!

Hemköp

Got a call back from Hemköp and they agreed to sponsor us, with 18 kg of candy!! Emily picked it up the other day so today we are meeting up at her place to divide the candy into small halloween bags, that we later on will sale! Hopefully we will earn some money that we can use for Kenya!

Also, I have not been able to find a email adress to Greger Hagelin so I haven't sent an email to him yet. I will look more into that later today!

Yesterday and today

Yesterday I met up with Elinor and Emily, the two girls I'm travelling to Kenya with, and we sat down to figure out a way to raise money for our project. Since I so far have not got anyone to sponsor me with money we had to figure out a new way. We came up with a fun idea but realized that we it do not bring as much money as we need. So today we went around town and asked for some local stores to sponsor us. Both Hemmakväll and Hemköp told us that they would call us back later today but the other three or four stores couldn't answer us, since they barely could speak either swedish nor english. So hiopefully we will get a few phonecalls tonight with some positive news!

I'm also started to think about contacting Greger Hagelin, the co-founder and CEO of the swedish street brand WESC. Saw the documentry "Hooked for Life" that tells the story about the swedish skateboard scene over the years, where Greger played a big role. Hopefully he will be interrested in my project!

Vimeo and Stockholm

Since we now have a place to stay during our short time in Stockholm we decided the other day to look for tickets, our hope was to find something fairly cheap. But apparently you couldn't buy any tickets if it is more then 90 days until you travel. So we just have to wait until then.

Also, check out my profile on Vimeo (wallanderswe) where I have some inspiration videos on my likes and you could also give me tips on videos, documentries and things like that.

Auntie Lotta

Our flight leaves from Arlanda at 20:00 saturday night and we did not wanna risk missing our flight by taking a train in the morning so we decided to go up a day or so earlier. So I just talked to my aunt Lotta that lives up in Stockholm with her family. She said that we are more then welcome to stay a few nights at them before we go to Kenya. This means we avoid the expences of a hotel in Stockholm. And she also said she could pick us up at the train station and drive us to the airport aswell, which is really nice (and that mean we avoid even more expences since we don not have to pay for taxi).

One shilling is the same as 0.06 swedish crowns

Odd Molly!

Got aresponse from odd molly that said they have redirected my message to Christer (the co-founder of Odd Molly and also a pretty good skater!). So all I have to do now is to wait even more!

Girls can skate too!

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