Snobbish Mustache Meets Wine and Cheese
What is a snob?
- a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
- a person who believes himself or herself an expert or connoisseur in a given field and is condescending toward or disdainful of those who hold other opinions or have different tastes regarding this field: a musical snob.
I don’t like the definition of a snob the way it is now. Let’s modify this definition by adding something like;
Snobbish people also help children in the developing world gain the lifelong gift of education
That’s sounds more like it.
Imagine having a conversation about Shakespeare, just a few years from now, with a little girl from Cambodia.
Room to Grow girls’ scholarship program has an immediate and direct influence on the lives of thousands of girls in the developing world. An education provides security and support to girls and enables them to make informed life decisions. In addition, a solid education is critical to improve the status of women, which provides a ripple of positive effects throughout society.
- Providing girls one extra year of education beyond the average boosts eventual wages by 10-20 percent.
- Infant mortality decreases by 8 percent for each year a woman stays in school.
- In Africa, children of mothers who receive five years of primary education are 40 percent more likely to live beyond age five.
- Family health and nutrition rise in the home of an educated woman.
- Multi-country data show educated mothers are about 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than are uneducated mothers.
- An educated woman has fewer children, so population growth is slowed in resource scarce countries.
- A 65-country analysis finds that doubling the proportion of women with a secondary education would reduce average fertility rates from 5.3 to 3.9 children per woman
Room to Read (www.roomtoread.org ) makes a long term commitment to each girl on the program: as long as she attends classes and participates in Room to Grow activities, they will continue to fund her education through the completion of secondary school. This promise provides an incentive for her to do well in school and for the family to support her in her academic endeavors. Currently, the majority of our scholarship students range in age from 7 to 12. Thank you for being part of this new adventure in my life. I was lucky to have the opportunity to pursue and graduate from CU boulder graduated engineering school and would like to extend the favor to others less lucky. If someone ask you about your snobbish mustache tell them;
Snobbish Mustache helps children in the developing world gain the lifelong gift of education by making a donation through;
http://www.firstgiving.com/snubbishmustache
Spread the word ! and be proud of your snobbish mustache.
Let’s get together and celebrate August birthdays
What: This is a birthday theme celebration. What is the theme?
Snobbish Mustache meets Wine and Cheese
You have to wear a snobbish mustache to attend to this event.
- Bring a bottle of wine to share and something to hide it with
- Bring and play games; hoola hoola, badminton
- Bring some cheese and crackers to share and eat cheese
- Bring some snobbish conversation topics
- I’m bringing liquid washable eye liner for the mustaches and a few hand mirrors
If you are a snobbish philosopher, this is your time to shine. What about all those;
- Shakespeare Snobs and Wine and Cheese snubs
- Film and movie festival snobs
- Music snobs
I hope to be snobbish enough for my own snobbish birthday celebration (I’m more like a stray puertorrican dog than a snob. I’ve been told) Attitude: 90% of life is attitude and 10% percent is showing up. You should be willing to paint a snobbish mustache (like the one in the picture) and talk philosophical stuff while eating cheese and drinking wine. Then we are hitting the town for more drinks … yes, you guessed it, with the snobbish mustaches on. When/Where: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 stating at 6:00 pm. at the Chautauqua park for;
- Wine and cheese. There will be hula hoops and balmington, frisbee and men’s wet t-shirt contests.
- Later, I’m planning for us to go to the Med for drinks and more aristocrat talking.
- Have you notice attitude is more important than where and when?
- Remember to visit http://www.firstgiving.com/snubbishmustache
VERY IMPORTANT:
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