Write to my sponsor child

This is a perfect opportunity to _finally start this goal. All I can send are paper things, so I need to find the pinkest, sparkliest card ever as well as some stickers and any other interesting paper stuff that I can find.

I have to thank my fellow listers for cheering me on with this one :) It really did help encourage me to get this done!
It ended up being so easy to write to my boy in Brazil. There is even a sample letter on the sponsor website to follow. I enclosed a photo of myself and a local postcard. Yay, I look forward to be a more interactive sponsor :)

Oh, how time flies. Save the Children sent me a letter saying my child, in Nepal, is now a man in his culture. I was a little sad. I still have the picture of the flower he drew me. He always drew me that same flower. Ever since he was a little boy.

They assigned me a little girl from Africa. This time around, I’d like to be a more active sponser. Last time I only sent 2 letters in a 7 year period.

I’d forgotten that, Save the Children, gives you the option of emailing you sponsor child. I emailed him the day before yesterday, his birthday.

and have only written him once. ::shakes head::

Well, I’ve written a draft, anyway, which I’ve emailed to myself so I can hand-write it out this evening, so it may be cheating slightly to say I’ve done this – but I’ve done the hard part, which was thinking of something to say. I’m badly out of practice at talking to children, and I hate sounding condescending, though as Abs pointed out she won’t know anyway, hopefully. Come to think of it, Plan will translate my letter into her native language, so any carefully chosen nuance would probably be lost in translation anyway. In the end I just kept it short and simple.

Next steps – write it out, get a picture postcard or something to include with the letter, find my Plan folder with addresses etc, and mail the damn thing!

Funny thing happened with the personal challenge thing, though. When I logged in this morning it said I had two hours left – I expected to have run out of time, but I’d forgotten it’s working off a different timezone. But then when I refreshed it just now, three hours later, it said I had four hours left. What gives?

Anyway, I’m glad to have made it in time. Though I was tempted to let it run out just to see what would happen. Does the yellow challenge box turn a loud and embarrassing red to highlight your failure to the world? Does your computer blow up? Does the cheer goblin start chasing you with a big stick? Anyone know? :o)

It is utterly ridiculous that I haven’t done this yet. It’ll take, like, an hour, for heaven’s sake.

I hope he gets my letter eventually! From what I read he seems to be going to school and doing really well! Apparently he wants to be a teacher. He’s adorable. xxx

...it was written by one of the Plan staff in Ghana and says a little about the life of the boy, whose name is Collins, and his family. His parents are farmers, he lives with a lot of his relatives and they all have supper together, and he likes to play football. I’m going to write tonight. xxx