After three weeks of spamming Facebook in 15 separate languages, GCE finally hosted its annual holiday fundraiser on Christmas Eve, where we pretend sang real songs, drew names for raffle prizes, then went home and ate chicken or something while waiting for Jesus Clause to shimmy his way down whatever ventilation ducts pass for chimneys in Korea.
Although we promised to post video of the drawing, our in-house videographer forgot to press the record button, mostly because the Director forgot to tell her to. Nevertheless, we have signed affadavits attesting that the first La Mer winner was David Friedman, of Seoul by way of Boston; and the second was Andrea Ferguson, a gentlewoman from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Since David was the first winner he had first choice of watches, a decision he made by looking around for his girlfriend to see which she preferred, finding that she had left, and finally guessing she'd like the rose gold watch better. This worked out well for Andrea, who included a note with her donation stating she'd like "whichever the other person doesn't want. They're both cute." We hope it worked out for David just as well.
Battle
Our fundraiser was organized around a lip sync battle, an idea borrowed from a lady who stole it from the Jimmy Fallon Show. Eight contestants entered the octagon in search of the gold-plated hairbrush-as-microphone we commissioned for a trophy, but only two made it to the finals:
Although we promised to post video of the drawing, our in-house videographer forgot to press the record button, mostly because the Director forgot to tell her to. Nevertheless, we have signed affadavits attesting that the first La Mer winner was David Friedman, of Seoul by way of Boston; and the second was Andrea Ferguson, a gentlewoman from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Since David was the first winner he had first choice of watches, a decision he made by looking around for his girlfriend to see which she preferred, finding that she had left, and finally guessing she'd like the rose gold watch better. This worked out well for Andrea, who included a note with her donation stating she'd like "whichever the other person doesn't want. They're both cute." We hope it worked out for David just as well.
Battle
Our fundraiser was organized around a lip sync battle, an idea borrowed from a lady who stole it from the Jimmy Fallon Show. Eight contestants entered the octagon in search of the gold-plated hairbrush-as-microphone we commissioned for a trophy, but only two made it to the finals:
Jeremy's shirt is a traditional Owambo shirt that was a gift from the people of Onyati, Namibia, not a purchase made at the neighborhood Big & Tall, SO STOP ASKING!!!
To find out which of these ladies won you will have to watch the video below. But before you do we would like to both congratulate and thank Danielle Schaeffer for winning the battle and then donating the 100 Korean dollar grand prize back to GCE. Without her skill and generosity we would have only raised $2325 during our fundraiser instead of the $2421 we actually did. For that we also thank everyone who purchased a raffle ticket or donated just because. We are truly grateful for all the support we get, whether from family members, friends of friends, and even complete strangers.
Further thanks goes to the Southside Parlor for hosting the event, Casablanca Sanwicherie, La Mer Collections, Magpie Brewing Co., and Surge Dance Intensive for their outstanding donations to our raffle, and Ines and Lydia Min for working their own brand of underground magic to make our event even more impressive.
Anyhow, ESPN is on:
Further thanks goes to the Southside Parlor for hosting the event, Casablanca Sanwicherie, La Mer Collections, Magpie Brewing Co., and Surge Dance Intensive for their outstanding donations to our raffle, and Ines and Lydia Min for working their own brand of underground magic to make our event even more impressive.
Anyhow, ESPN is on:
Stunt Fundraising
Our Director promised a perm and then a mullet if we met certain fundraising thresholds, which were absolutely obliterated. While he isn't particularly happy most people who meet him now assume he smokes 40 cigarettes a day and speaks French, he is rather thankful for all the support that we can pass onto our scholars, of whom we will have an update soon so please stay tuned.
Otherwise, Jerm the Perm, y'all: