An attempt to show things from my life...

Since I've been wondering for months now why I can't seem to get my act together and write some posts on this blog, I've decided to upload indiscriminately things I do in my daily life.

This is a picture from yesterday where I was local coordinator on the great collection day for the Danish Refugee Council here in Aalborg. The collection is nation wide and entailed this year 14.000 individuals each armed with a miniature plastic truck, going around from house to house to house, asking people to donate their coins and whatever else they wish to. This year, the collections money goes to refugee children around the world, and the total ended at 14.5 million kroner = 2 million Euro - ish... :) A great success!

In this picture (taken by The Doctor, by the way), I'm conversing with a fellow who collected on a route in Hasseris, the posher area of Aalborg. When asked about the route - was it long, uphill, wet etc. - he answered "it was a horrible route! Everywhere I went, there was a Benz and a BMW in the driveway - but all they could manage to find for the refugee children was 4,75 kr. (less than 1 Euro)"

And I guess that was one lesson of yesterday - you cannot have a whole route of narrow-minded snobs who thinks "financial crisis" is when they cannot afford a new fur from this year's collection. You need the balance of those who open the door, almost look guilty the minute they see you because they feel they should give more (time) than they do...