Sing was busy for the first session so I had to go it alone and yeah, I was pretty awkward. Awkwardly sat by myself, awkwardly introduced myself to the other participants, promptly forgot the names of the other participants.

The teams were introduced to Rahul who would be running the program and mentoring us. For the first session he got us to answer the most feels questions like “At the end of your life how do you want people to remember you by, basically write the eulogy you would want given at your funeral”.

This was me the entire time

I didn’t realise it then but this session and my answers to these questions were probably the most important part of this entire journey but that’s for next time!

Kellen

Read the Beginning

…and now we’re slightly above the bottom.

Welcome to 1000 dollars and a bike! While you’re reading I may as well tell you how we got here.

This all started in a dank university room sometime in late August/early September. Sing and I had only met months prior and he thought I hated him. In his defense, I did think he was a bit of a dopey loner though so…. y’know. I saw an event pop up on my news feed about an incubator program run by Monash University SEED for social enterprises and I thought it would be an awesome way to launch this idea I had about providing survival kits for the homeless. I did’t want to do this program on my own because 1) I didn’t think a one person team looks great and 2) I’m really awkward and didn’t want to do it on my own even if it meant I had to do it with this dopey loner I had met a few months prior. So I asked Sing if he wanted to do this program with me and he was like “yeah, okay.”

I applied with the briefest answers because the application said that I could be as brief as possible. A few weeks later, to my absolute surprise because I had totally forgotten about this, I got this call saying that my (our?) application got accepted and that we would be starting the program that week.

Kellen