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u of a educates students on podo and “why ethiopia?”

admin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:18:59 +0000

This past week, the TOMS Campus Club at U of A and the SIFE Business Club teamed up to educate students about Podoconiosis and help TOMS put more shoes on children’s feet. The club members built and placed three installations on campus with facts about Podo and what students can do to get involved with the One for One movement. Earlier in the week, over 350 students gathered on campus, along with the U of A Wildcat mascot, for a one mile barefoot walk with Hanson. The guys even played a free show at the bookstore afterwards and hung out with fans to sign autographs. The major event, held Thursday November 12 and titled U of A Gives Back, Why Ethiopia?, recruited students from all over campus to come have their TOMS customized and soak up the sunshine with like-minded classmates. 18 artists were there hand-painting shoes, creating “some of the best custom TOMS I’ve ever seen!” said TOMS Campus Manager Autumn Petersen. At the end of the week, over 400 pairs of TOMS were sold, guaranteeing over 400 matched pairs for children in need.

Maddi, a past TOMS HQ intern, the TOMS Campus Club, and the SIFE Business Club did an extraordinary job at planning and executing a successful, fun, and memorable campus event. Kudos from TOMS HQ!

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team sw in texas? oklahoma?

krystenSW — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:37:11 +0000

After Team SW left Phoenix, Arizona, we began the grueling drive across New Mexico. Where were we headed? Not anywhere in the southwest region of the United States, as you might suspect. We were headed to Lubbock, Texas. Our Midwest team is rocking it out there on the road, but the Midwest (primarily Texas) is just one big place with a lot of ground to cover. So we decided to tackle the event at Texas Tech University, where we helped pre-sell shoes for an event at a local Lubbock TOMS retailer, Chrome. They have an awesome event this Saturday, April 4th, from 10:00 – 6:00 PM, with lots of live music and food – and will, of course, be selling TOMS! Our Texas Tech campus rep Jordan and her roommate Jennifer definitely showed us some Texas hospitality – Jordan gave up her bed for us to sleep in! They were wonderful girls and really wish we could’ve stayed longer.

After Lubbock, we drove on to Dallas, where we stayed for the night to break up our drive north to Norman, Oklahoma. I have family in Dallas and Kelli has friends in Fort Worth, so it was nice to see them all briefly. The highlight of our time in Dallas, however, was the fact that we ran into two crazy girls who are traveling the country in a 15 passenger van, selling shoes at high school and college campuses! Wait…that sounds oddly familiar. You’ve got it, Team SW ran into the infamous Midwest Team, in all their glory. They were headed down to Houston for an event, but we had just enough time to grab breakfast with them, swap stories, and share some love. It was fun to see the Vagavans parked next to each other and snag some photos of us all reunited.

Before heading up to Oklahoma, we made one last stop in Dallas on our way out. We visited Kelsey Brandon, one of the OG Vagabonds, or a member of Vagabonds Season 1, if you will. This girl is probably the sweetest thing on earth. She had a bag full of goodies ready for us when we got there, as well as lots of smiles and hugs while she asked us how the tour was going so far.

When we finally arrived in Norman, OK, we were thrilled to meet Natalia – the best friend of our beloved HQ intern Danielle – who let us crash at her place for a few days. Our event at University of Oklahoma was the jam (props to both our campus rep Kelli and the former rep Kojo, for setting it all up), and we can’t wait to see what the next two weeks worth of events in Oklahoma are going to be like (most likely out of this world – duh).

We love you all! TOMS all day!

Krysten

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goodbye california

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:50:42 +0000

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arizona california arizona?

blairSW — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:27:46 +0000

We have finally left the state!! We hit Arizona on Sunday… but we were back in LA today for a church event. We set up at a huge Eco Friendly Fashion show at USC, too. Now we’re blazing the trail back to AZ- all in one day. Its going to be crazy and that is why we are just the ladies for the job!

Anyways, back to how things have gone for our last week…. To begin with all you other Vagabonds out there are so jealous that we got to see Mikey P!!! He helped us put on an event at the Pearl Hotel in Point Loma Saturday night. Our last big BANG in CA before eating a quick Ihop b-fast and heading to AZ. We haven’t quite been vagabonding it since our arrival here, being that Kelli’s apartment is in Phoenix we’ve been living a lush lifestyle the last few days. We had two great events in Tucson with our amazing reps Chelsea and Jenna. [We love you guys!] Had a relaxing day off yesterday and are getting ready for what’s bound to be another great event tonight at ASU!!

For me this week as been the first week of real tour being that I’m from Southern California it wasn’t much different then the travel I was used to. Krysten and Kelli didn’t feel like we were really on the road until we were crossing that state line either. We can’t believe that tour is almost half way over but are loving every event and every campus rep more and more. Although I will admit that it’s getting to the point where days and weeks and dates blend together. Wait is today Monday or Thursday… no Friday? I dunno. haha. No matter what day it is we know were going to have an epic event at whatever school we stumble upon!

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like a rolling stone…

rachontheroad — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:13:00 +0000

Hey Everyone!

Well, Hannah and I finally made it out of California! We had an amazing time over the past four weeks traveling up and down and all around the golden state, but we were SO ready to cross state lines. First stop—Arizona!

The southwest is so different than what I know! We’re from Florida where the land is flat. It’s quite a change to go from driving in a place where there isn’t so much as a hill, to driving through the mountains. KIND of terrifying, but also kind of awesome. As you all know, we’re HUGE documenters at TOMS and there are billions of pictures and videos to come!

Let’s just a take a minute to give a shout out to GPS lady, Shirley. Shirley… is a little sassy to say the least, but that’s only appropriate given she’s a member of this team. Sometimes, Good Ole Shirl likes to misdirect us out of spite, but we know she loves us and has only the best of intentions. She’s gotten us this far and we’re so excited to hit New Mexico, Utah, and Vegas in the coming weeks!

We have a couple of days off before our first event in AZ, which is pretty rare! We’re working on booking a few more events and checking out what the southwest has to offer, which apparently is cacti and palm trees. I am a huge cactus fan! So much, that when I was three years old, I hugged one. HUGE mistake! Anyway, I digress-

Our first event here is on Wednesday at Arizona State University. Come check out the ‘For Tomorrow’ screening at 11am in the Pima Room, and then come Style Your Sole on the lawn outside the Hayden library!

HUGE thank you to everyone we’ve met thus far on the road. You guys constantly inspire us and remind us what we’re doing here—getting shoes for kids who really need ‘em.

Oh, and I apologize for my excessive use of exclamation points. I really am just that excited about all this!

Love,

The Sole Sisters

driving break in the desert!

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