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Cielo Drops In Late

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Dear World, with your help we get to be part of a great event!  I will share the experience with you. It's the third stop on freebords official Spread the Shred 2015 .  1st stop in Europe is in Teneriffa . There is a new Freebord  team rider: Jonay  and fellow ripper José   Who I have yet to meet, plus all my crew  will be there,  and us too :) Thanks to you!   About me... I am Josh Cielo. foreverly (is that a word?) gratefull to you who read on, and support, or share ...             I have been Freebording since december 2007, It's been an awesome ride! taking me places I never dreamed of! I am one of the older riders and I stay pretty active in the worldwide comunity.     Freebord has taught me alot about me & apreciating the people in my life. In 2010 I had a hard accident on my freebord, breaking a vertabre and fracturing my pelvis.  Not easy learning how to live with chronic pain, do my phisiotherapie (which is chronic pain  ;-), or making a new career after construction 25 years.  It has been very rewarding though. Since then I have not given up the freebord rather I've relished life's ups and downs, especialy the steep curves. Freebord has such a wonderfull community; like we are all brothers and sisters everyones welcome. about this gofundme. It's my first one, It has inspired me to try and use this system to make the world better somehow. I will make a selfless project next. I have a theory; some people you can help or they can help you, but everyone cant pay back always to the same people. this is life and it's ok. see the system works ass long as you pay back somehow to someone that good deed came or will come back, like a circle, you dont hold the hand of the people oposite you but you support each other all the same. I started this goal at 300 which We reached very fast and got the initial ticket bought. Still there was the train, to the bus, to the airport tickets to buy (done :-) and now with the latest Supporters I book the way home. The numbers in Euro's  240 air ticket, 26 for train, 60 for bus, &  120 For renting the gondola bus, gas, food, house. I underestimated over 146! After reaching the 300 I started realizing I am still in the hole and a bit frustrated with my decision making. Then gofundme sent me a congradtulations and said to up my goal. So I thought a lot about it, and how I am broke and could get stranded, or stuck. I of course had not insured the flight I cant afford to "I think" (for people who dont like me have savings or credit cards you know just how fast life can get ugly) so I need every cent to live. Or not, so I thought I thought about it, and as my own insurance I put the goal at 500 to be less stressed overal. Here's where an adventure starts before the adventure!  But wait have I told you I love adventure?: On monday while riding with the Swiss Crew I found poop in the street causing a backflip at 25mph. Normaly poop is ok but this piece of poop had some little wedge shaped stone in it causing the gymnastics. It's just hard to run backwards at that speed.  I took a normal dose of acitometaphen (tylenol) had a toxic reaction and ended up in the ER room Monday night. thats gonna cost me like 300 because my high deductible. So I missed my flight teusday morning, and now rebooked it for the 18th at $120 ...so the trip alone  ends up costing over $ 866... Still all I could think about the trip. Here is where face the facts that I am compeetly irrisponsible  This next part I plead dreamers amnesia forgetting I owe; -1100 for rent, -300 to keep my health insurance from canceling, -30 to have a phone while traveling.  -there's more but that would feel safe for my wife. So $2326 would cover my living and trip costs   I am not asking everyone to pay my way I'm just putting it out there. and figuring it out and updating my crowd. I obviously could use the help or I would'nt be writing this.  What you get? thank you for your time for sharing the love of freebording, for having an adventurous spirit.  A DVD!!! I will make one for every supporter all of you will be in the credits. I will also have the compleet list of expences (every recipt) This is a non-profit funding!!! Unless 1600 or so gets magicaly deposited with love in the next few weeks from you or because you shared with someone who can. So anyone who sends his or her address gets somthing back if you want. Some may want nothing I will have a photo book or a dropbox with all the pictures to look at at least. For some of you I am also gonna throw in the shirt off my back or some swag (stickers or?) Tell me how I can help you Aloha and Mahalo's to my official freebord  supporters since 2009 Goofy & Regular Freebord Germany CHoE Bomb Howard Boards Strassenkinder ...lately your personal support is the most impressive, I see a lot of negative things happening in our world but it's people helping people in the end that is the most rewarding and You all are worth talking about. Lacey pfeffer Jordan Bright Bently Anderson Justin Oliver Rachael Gofundme Jack Satta Steve BIDERMANN sven schellenberg jonay jorge grosso Nataliya Bendyk Johnny Schmidt You made this happen! ;-) I work for it too Freebord Switzerland  or for example  yesterday in the garden of the old man of a friend I worked hard putting in hours of back breaking work for the love, no pay. In fact trade is the best for me. If I could live without money I would.  That said any on the list I would love to offer you a special holiday in beautiful central switzerland, You have a house , a cook, a guide, and we can drop in if you like!

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