Here's an e-mail we received, if anyone is interested, feel free to contact them...

Basics:

-       2 weeks surfing around the Mentawais islands with 9 other students

-       3 college transferable English/journalism units, taught by Surfer Magazine’s Matt George

-       Humanitarian aid opportunities

price: $4 K

Ex-professional surfer and former Chief Editor of Surfer Magazine Matt George has spent the last few years trying to organize a surf trip, designed for students, that included epic surfing as well as a college education.  As a current high school teacher and ex-magazine writer, education has always been important to him; he also has done much international humanitarian work.  His non-profit company, “Last Mile Operations’, was created last year and is running its first trip to Indonesia this summer.  Matt contacted a few surfers here at Cal Poly University to help him spread the word about this trip to other college students…that’s why I’m writing to you.

              The Trip:

We will fly into Bali this summer and get onboard the Km D’bora, an 80 foot timber motor-sailor vessel.  For the next to weeks, we’ll cruise around the Mentawais islands finding barrels galore, as well as “going to class”.  Half the day will be in the barrel, and the other half will be taking courses on writing, journalism, and photography from Matt George and a few other instructors.   Also, the boat will store some emergency supplies like water and medicine that we will bring to remote, struggling villages around the islands.  The last Tsunami you heard about was in 2005, but there have been numerous smaller one’s since, so there is a big need there.

For more info:

www.lastmileexpeditions.com

              What Now?

I’m writing emails like this to surf contacts all over California and the east coast to find anybody who’s interested.  It’s a lot of money, but it is worth 3 units and you’re on a boat with Matt, a kingpin in the surf industry.

Please let me know if this sounds interesting, and even if not, your website says you are a officer in University of Central Florida’s surf club, so I would very much appreciate you mentioning this trip to anybody whom you think would be down…maybe forward this email?

So, please get back to me as soon as possible if you could by email or, even better, call me at 949-632-2016.

This really looks like the opportunity of a lifetime, and I’d love to talk to you about it more…Matt also wants the phone numbers of anyone who’s interested also

Later, hope this NE swells give you some fun,

We will Be having a meeting tomorrow night in B.A. 119 at 9 p.m.

We will be showing the pictures from the Malaria Sucks! benefit party for Surfaid International as well as revealing our last few events of the semester. So you won't want to miss it.

We still have some Surfaid wrist bands($5), DVD's($10), and stickers ($1) left over. So if you didn't get one at the party or fell off the face of the earth for some reason bring some money to donate to a good cause. It's not like your walking away empty handed.

Also at the meeting we will be having a viewing of the movie: TRILOGY. This is Taylor Steele's latest so it's definately worth a watch.

SEE YOU SOON.....

Tonight!, April 5th we're hosting a benefit party for SurfAid International. All proceeds go directly to Surfaid to benefit their causes, namely Malaria prevention and treatment around the world. We're going to be raffling off a TON of goodies including (but not limited to)

• A custom shortboard shaped by Evolve Surfboards
• A shortboard (sorry, not sure of specs) from an Anonymous donor
• A bag-o-goodies from Board House
• 20 t-shirts from University Surf & Skate
• DVDs from SurfAid
• Billabong Gear
• Lots of stuff from Quiet Flight
• Stoke International clothing
• A bunch of gear from BP Surfboards
• A bar tab from the Knight Library
• Gift Certificates from Lazy Moon
  

The party starts at 8pm at The Knight Library in Orlando. If you're in the area we'd love to see everyone come out and support a good cause. This will be a great chance to pick up some awesome shwag as well.

We will be renting out Orlando Watersports Complex Thursday April 3rd. So bring your wake, skim, surf, boogieboard etc... and we will ride. Meet in front of U.S.S. at 8:00 p.m. to carpool over to the complex. If you want to meet us out there here are some directions. Session will run 9:00 to 11:00.

Team Results:
1st Flagler College, 97 points
2nd University of Central Florida A-Team, 86 
3rd Daytona Beach College, 82
4th University of North Florida A-team, 79 
5th University of Florida, 34 
6th University of North Florida B-Team,28
7th University of Central Florida B-Team, 27 
8th University of Central Florida C-Team, 16 

Individual Results:
Men’s  Shortboard (48 total surfers)
4th Chad Bagwell (A-team), 18 points
T-9th Cody Chivas (A), 10 points
T-9th Alex Paslawsky (A), 10 points
T-13th Todd Rhoten (A), 8 points
T-17th Mike Bates (A), 7 points
T-25th Laurent Domaingue (B), 3 points 
T-25th David Morris (B), 3 points
T-25th Travis Gleason (B), 3 points
T-33rd Kyle Gesvaldi (A), 2 points
T-33rd Dave Moore (B), 2 points
T-33rd Zach Terwilliger (C), 2 points
T-40th Noah Rowe (B), 1 point
T-40th Drew Pacetti (B), 1 point
T-40th Josh Bear (C), 1 point
T-40th Travis Load (C), 1 point
T-40th Travis Eubanks (C), 1 point

Womens  Shortboard (16 total surfers)
1st Lauren McLean (A), 11 points
3rd Ashley Francis (A), 10 points
8th Whitney Scott (B), 3 points
T-10th Nicky Mansfield (C), 2 points
T-13th Charlotte Lesier (B), 1 point
T-13th Hailey Windslow (C), 1 point

Londboard  (8 total surfers)
3rd Brent Newell (A), 8 points
5th Austin Piazza (B), 4 points
6th Travis Eubanks (C), 3  points

Guys we will be having a Surf Club meeting Tuesday the 1st of April at BA 119. We really
need everyone to be in attendance to help pass out fliers for the upcoming
fundraiser for Surf Aid International being held this Saturday April 5th. 

No Circus and more will be playing starting at 8:00pm. 

We will be raffling off tons of prizes including surfboards, clothing, etc.

We will be outside the Student Union collecting donations for Surf Aid wristbands 

and Milaria Sucks bumber sticket Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday so stop on by.

We will also be renting out Orlando Watersports Complex this Thursday April 3rd

Hope to see you at the meeting.

We will be having a meeting Tuesday the 25th at 9:00pm in BA 119. We will be
discussing upcoming events such as RETRO ROLLER SKATE on Wednesday the 26th at
The UNIVERSAL SKATE CENTER off of Goldenrod.

We will also be discussing the upcoming fund raiser for Surf Aid International.

Don't forget all of our teams with be competing in Easterns at Sebastian
Inlet this weekend.