Your New Year's Resolutions. Take a cue from our tough borrowers!

[Guest]

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[Sherri]

Hey to the rest of you.. what are your resolutions for this year?

[RichardF]

I resolve to dig up at least old Kiva Friends topic instead of starting a new one! 

[Robert]

Inkrease my KivaKommitment. Definitely.

As for the rest, it's too early to share, as the details will only be worked out in a few months. Anyhow, an exciting year ahead!

Robert

[Leslie]

Happy New Year! 

It's just after midnight here in Japan....and many people are making their first visit of the year to their local shrines....

This year I resolve to further help the spread of Kiva in Japan.

[Mona]

In Germany it has become a habit to do on New Year's eve what we did just now: watch "Dinner for One" on tv. If you have never heard about it (and don't understand the German introduction at the beginning  ), here is in short what it is about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One
The sketch presents the 90th birthday of elderly upper-class Englishwoman Miss Sophie, who hosts a dinner every year for her close friends Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby, and Admiral von Schneider to celebrate the occasion. The problem is that given Miss Sophie's considerable age, she has outlived all of her friends, and so her equally aged butler James makes his way around the table, impersonating each of the guests in turn.

Hope you will enjoy it. 



Happy new year to you all!   
Mona
 

[Penny]

I really don't do resolutions... but I do have goals:


Finish up 1st year Greek and begin year 2
Take conversational Spanish so I don't have to keep pretending I am a mime at work
Get my certification pre-reqs finished this year
Draw more, get to the Bontanical Gardens more
This year actually properly plan the herb garden
Be less bloody self-centered and self-absorbed
Buy a new powerbook
Keep investing in Kiva
Be able to play Pachebel's Canon in D Major from memory, both first and second violin.

[Henry]

Happy New Year! 
 
May 2009 be wonderfully fine! 
 
Here's to a lighter weight
on all our shoulders
in this new year
and
to more socialization
with friends
and family!

[Environmental Care]

#1. Eat more vegetables. (So far, so good!)
#2. Work on expanding the Environmental Loan Group on Kiva.org  We are off to a good start, as our numbers have more than doubled since Jan. 1, 09. If you're interested, check us out at: www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=231
Best wishes for your health and happiness in 2009, everyone!
Melanie

[Alaska Pack]

I dont have any new years resolutions--maybe I do, but I usually dont refer to them as that. But some of my goals are to:



- I want to bike cross country, but that most likely wouldnt have a chance of happening until 2009 at the earliest


Dear Steven,
My husband's passion is long distance biking.  Tour de France anyone?  He biked from Seattle to Canada then to his home states of Ohio.  This included biking through Glacier National Park and from Canada crossing by boat across Lake Michigan.  He has also done the West coast.  He likes to do the local bike race here the Fireweed in July.  It entails biking anywhere from 25 miles to 400 miles in a day.  It is a RAM qualifier.  He prefers to do the 200.  You can e-mail us if you want input from my husband.  Have you thought about biking from NY to Alaska?  You can stop at various Kivafriends along the way.  If you need further motivation, I'm including a link to the famous Johnny Horton song, North to Alaska:

    Bernice

[Jan & John]

Great idea Bernice (and I haven't heard that song in quite a while:)

Steve - there's a bed in Calgary you can use for one of your stops ...

jan