Aloha! We haven't been posting for a while because we've been extremely busy with grad school applications and writing a business plan. Jeremi and I have had the dream of opening a school in Mexico that would really benefit the Mexican people. As English is becoming more and more the international language, this is one way we feel would help them gain a jump start on their lives and pull themselves out of poverty. So, we entered a business plan competition here at school but with very high hopes of gaining knowledge and little hopes of winning. We had so many mentors who not only believed in our plan, but believed in us. Then we found Leslie Thompson from Lima, Peru, who not only thought our idea was awesome, but really wants to help us in the future. She is another student here at BYUH and is studying International Business & Math. She's really smart and helped out a ton with all the financial stuff. As I said, we had met with a lot of people who've helped us since October '07 and finally, it was time to turn in the plan. It turned out to be about 40 pages (complete with an appendix) thanks to Jeremi and his amazing writing skills. We made it into the semi-finals (out of about 40 plans entered) on Monday (Mar 3) and straight into the finals (only five other teams made it to the finals). We presented our plan on Friday (Mar 7) and the winner was....
Us! Our team won the grand prize which we invested with our other money that we've saved for this goal of ours. It really is our dream to fulfill and with continued work, help, and planning, I know we can achieve it!
A news article link:
http://newsroom.byuh.edu/?q=node/1597
2 comments:
Good job...as always dad and I are proud of both of you.
HOLY COW! Your guys are amazing! Someday I'll say, hey I was in the MTC with that girl!
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