John: make a bunch of videos from his East Africa trip with Bill Gates (2014)
promise · status: kept · last event: kept (2014-09-09) · owner: John
John's July 2014 promise to make a set of videos from his East Africa trip with Bill Gates; on 29 July 2014 he posted one from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and said more about the trip would follow in the coming weeks.
Part of: John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014)
Told alongside: John: tell Hank about his helicopter ride with Bill Gates (2014) · John's viral meningitis and hospitalisation (2014) · John's helicopter trip with Bill Gates to World Food Programme maize farmers in Ethiopia (2014) · John's Tuesday bonus videos: conversations with Bill Gates filmed in Ethiopia (2014)
About: Bill Gates, Ethiopia
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-15 | promised | John says he will make a bunch of videos from the East Africa trip, though they probably won't be uploaded during the trip. (hedged) | Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses 00:02:31 |
| 2014-07-29 | progress update | In this video from his Ethiopia trip, John says he will talk about hanging out with Bill Gates and the helicopter ride in the coming weeks. | Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 00:02:57 |
| 2014-08-19 | progress update | John then rode in a helicopter with Bill Gates, which was terrifying and hilarious, and will tell Hank about it next week (week of 25 August 2014) unless he gets meningitis again. (playful) | Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia 00:03:49 |
| 2014-08-26 | progress update | Having promised it for weeks, John reports his first helicopter ride, with Bill Gates: scary at first, then kind of awesome. | Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World 00:00:12 |
| 2014-09-09 | kept | John says he filmed several conversations with Bill Gates in Ethiopia and will upload them every Tuesday for about a month, a couple of hours before his regular Vlogbrothers video. | Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health 00:00:08 |
What is said about it
1 statement, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says he hung out with Bill Gates, whom he calls brilliant, overcame his fear of heights to fly in a helicopter with him, and will talk about it in the coming weeks. — 00:02:57