No money changed hands prior to the making of this video! In fact, I’ve never met John Stanbridge, but discovered his “10 Good Things About 2008” video via a google alert I have set up to track mentions of notesinspanish.com on the net.
His ‘number 4’ has made us as happy as he was for winning the prize mentioned in his ‘number 3’!
So I suppose the question is, what are my 10 good things about 2008? Here we go:
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That’s what it says on my Twitter page, so it must be true!
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Last week we mentioned that we were hoping to raise 1,000 Euros for Unicef’s campaign to help children affected by the Cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe.
For those interested in the final total, check out this post at the notesinspanish.com blog.
As mentioned there, we intend to give 5% of all profits from Notes from Spain S.L. to charity in 2009 (and beyond).
I recently read that “…if you help others with some of your success, you’ll grow old and be happy.”
Sounds good. That’ll be one of my plans for 2009, to be more helpful. If there’s any way we/this blog can help you, let me know in the comments below…
We’ve decided to add a little something extra to our Christmas sale at NotesinSpanish.com, and give 10% of all sales to Unicef’s project to help kids in the midst of the Cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe.
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Weird how it feels like that, like the he’s the Planetary President Elect, isn’t it?
I imagine it’s because the reign of George W. had such a profound effect at an international level… now it seems like Obama is taking on the world, and not just the USA.
Funny too to think that the leader of China is probably going to be just as important soon, but does anyone know who the current one is? (At the other end of the scale, hardly anyone in Spain even knows who’s in charge in Portugal!)
But we all have a vested interest in Mr Obama, and I, as you know, am glad he won (it’s always good to back a winner!)
Looking forward to see how he handles his not insignificant responsibilities. Great result.
Hope he wins, even from a not-very-political European’s perspective, the alternative just looks like more of the same… which wasn’t great…
So good luck Obama, the world will feel like a more spirited, alive-with-possibilities, and interesting place if he wins.
My sister is a designer and illustrator with a wonderful imagination!
That’s a quote from the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), found on the bbc website.
I don’t read the news much, so I don’t know all the details… (obviously I’ve heard rumours about the imminent collapse of capitalism), but wow, that quote above sounds pretty end-of-the-world-is-nigh…
Should I start stocking up on rice and beans again? Someone clever fill me in please! What happens if we do reach “systemic meltdown”?
There is a reason for the recent silence here on the blog. We’ve been working away like crazy on a big project for notesinspanish.com called ‘Real Spanish Control’. This has meant putting all those time management theories I’ve been obsessing about recently through a rigourous test, and I’m happy to say, they work!
More on Real Spanish Control soon, but in the meantime, if you are a Spanish learner, you have to see the 3 videos we have lined up this week.
The first is ready, and includes instructions on how to see the other two.
Click here to watch the first video
More soon… Ben
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