How LONG does it take?

Okay, it's kind of driving me nuts. It's probably driving the staff members nuts too, but too bad for them ...
HOW  LONG does it take for a club to be made? Or at least a meeting or something. I'm supposed to be called down to the advisor for Builder's Club's class any time now . . . but somehow They haven’t in a while. It’s really, really, really annoying me. Why? Because I want to get this process finished before summer and I have this weird sense it’s going to take a while. Maybe they’re trying to purposefully put it off. Or I’m just being paranoid. Probably the latter.

I have talked to the vice principal since the last blog, but we really weren’t that productive. When they call next time, I’m going to be really frank. Hint: whenever you’re starting a club, be direct. Don’t be wishy-washy like me. We have a ton of ideas and we put them on the table, but unfortunately we need to be more direct. I need to be more direct.

Second of all, keep the momentum going. If you have a lot of students interested in your club, bring that up. Because I guess it seems to the teachers that it’s not that big of a deal since there aren’t that many students. Although there will be plenty since it garners students community hours. /hint hint/

Anyway, no, Vest a Dog isn’t dead. Just that …. The teachers are being kind of … grr. RAWR. That sort of thing.

Also, if you want to check out the site ---> http://www.vestadog.org/

Anything like this ever happen to you? Please leave a comment. J

Some Important Stuff!

I actually have some stuff to report now! I feel ... purposeful!

Anyway, for anyone who's just reading this blog, I got to talk to our vice principal today. (He forgot. O_o For about a week.) I kinda ambushed him at lunch and went,

"Uh, not to be pushy, but it's been a week since I submitted that form (to talk to him)...."

Him : *pulls face* "I completely forgot!"

And then he called me down in fifth period, which is P.E. Yesss.

Updates? Basically we can't put out community donation boxes out in the community, but we can at school. Since it's officially a SCHOOL sort of club thing, then we have to keep it more .... in the school, I guess. Second, we aren't allowed to sell stuff for fundraising. So, no bake sales, that kind of stuff. But we can sell services which would be awesome. :)

Turns out, that one police department that never replied to me doesn't have vests after all, and they're the closest. How very frustrating indeed, because that would have saved me a lot of time. But we're going to fund for them/Black Diamond now. Mostly them, people want to donate to something that's more local.

There's a lot of issues with money, etc etc etc. But we need to find some fundraising events we can conduct in the school, because that's where it's at. I'm not too sure if the costs outweigh the benefits, as are some of my friends but starting the club at the school really is the best bet we have.

A quick update

Finally, we're getting somewhere. On Tuesday I should be getting called down to the VP's office to talk about the club. It's been about two months since we first submitted the form, and there hasn't really been all that much accomplished. However, we do have a police K9 unit to support and at least I get to talk about getting it started.

With luck, Vest A Dog might start by March.

For anyone who feels like starting a program of their own, check out www.vestadog.org. They have a whole section on how to start a V.A.D local program. Or contact me, because we're obviously both trying to accomplish the same thing.

Thanks!

Short Update ...

School's back in session!
Hopefully, I'll get to talk to the vice principal about the club again.
Maybe some more people will even want to join.
In the meantime, I have to list some fundraiser ideas so Mr. VP knows a general idea of what we would be doing, and attempt to find a police force slightly more local to generate more .. erm ... donations.
All time record of people on the Vest a Dog site? Seven! Not bad, hmm? Wish I had a screenshot to prove it to everyone, but ... yeah.

There's also a new member on the site. Finally, we're getting somewhere!
Thanks for reading.

Something I didn't notice before ... ?

So, I found this nifty little  button at the bottom of the Forums page.

Yes, I'm the member online. This is at the Vest a Dog forum, by the way. Intrigued, I clicked on 'Active Users'. Maybe this'll get us somewhere. Well, the only problem with that is sometimes it's just the stupid Googlebot crawling the pages over and over again. It'd be nice to get some people just looking at the site, no?

It's called Search Robot Google there, so I was momentarily confused as to what they were talking about. We all know it's Googlebot, everyone! So anyway, it wasn't Googlebot the time I posted this, it was someone on Windows XP Safari or something. They were on the Register New User part! Ooh. Interestiing. Unfortunately, a few minutes later they logged off. Without registering. This kind of frustrates me.

I dunno if this constitutes as weird, because anyone can see where you are on the site. On the other hand it's nice to know there's someone checking out this old site in the first place.What do you think?

Hmm, first post

Naturally this won't get a thousand views, but I'm hoping someday I'll get there.

Well, to be really vague, I'd say that it's about animals. But that's not what it's really about.
My friends and I are trying to get a Vest-A-Dog club started at our school. It's a really worthwhile cause, actually, so I advise you look into it. But at the minimalist level, Vest A Dog is an organization to fundraise for bulletproof vests for police dogs.

Where we are now? Well, we've submitted the club form, trying to get the Vice principal to actually make some freaking eye contact with us, attempting to start a website on it while someone's a bit too stubborn and prideful to simply use a normal template, and the Vest a Dog site is so inactive that I'm pretty sure it's the equivalent of a thousand-year-old book. In the broken-down library in the small, off-the-map town. With the population of 5.

If you're looking for more info, try www.vestadog.org. Or you can track us as we try and get this project off the ground.