Sasha, 4/3/08, Madness Against Malaria

Today, I sold popcorn with Maya. Yesterday, I made the poppcorn with my mom. Today, Lucy made some more. I brought it to school. I made $60.00. Some people made donations. My mom was able to sell two bags of popcorn for $5.00 each. Someone made a donation of ten dollars. I was amazed at how successful this popcorn sale was compared to the bake sale. I think it was because popcorn isn’t messy, I got there earlier, and each bag was only one dollar flat. It was easy for people to buy. And the fact that it was air popped with butter and salt was probably appealing, as well. The popcorn was actually my moms idea. I was really surprised and really happy that I made so much money so fast. My goal for future sales is to make all the prices easy to pay again and get there early again. This worked out really well. I now have two more posts left before I am done. My next post will be the interview for the expose, and the one after that might be more popcorn. I’m not sure. I didn’t really learn anything about the organization’s inner workings or the environment, social justice, or sustainability, but I did help people with malaria. I will send a check for 70 dollars over the weekend to Madness Against Malaria. What I learned about people skills and work skills today is that if you want people to buy something, you have to find a way to say something appealing fast, before they walk too far away. That way they stop and say, ‘ wait, maybe I do want some air – popped popcorn with butter and salt……’ 

This was definitely a success.