We're Going To Goa!!

We are flabbergasted!! After all the hard work and commitment we have put into the challenge over the past 6 months, we have finally been rewarded, with a trip of a lifetime to Goa in India. Our primary goal of being the most successful business has been reached, and we are very pleased with our £1039 we raised. Overall, all the teams in the challenge raised round £7500, so we are all winners in the challenge.
We cannot describe how nervous we felt in the presentation, as multiple awards were presented to teams with the best commitment, or for the best managing director. We did not win any of these awards, but when it came to announcing the winner, and the reasons for them winning, we all felt quietly confident inside, even if we did not show it behind our shaking knees and sweaty palms! Afterwards, the judges said how calmly we acted when we won, but truly inside, we were over the moon. We are all generally calm and collective people, so it wasn't in our personality to scream and shout. We had the support of our headteacher and our parents, who, unlike us, were literally jumping for joy over the final result. It was nice for other teams to congratulate us after the presentation, as well as last years winners, who we had a photograph with, and talked to them about their experience in Goa last year, begging us if they could come again.
We were also had lots of photos taken as a team, and interviewed by a journalist, asking who we would like to thank, and how we were feeling.
We had found out that we were going for an interview on Thursday on the Radio around 8 on Express Fm (93.7), so listen out for us if you are free!!
In November we will be going on that once in a lifetime trip to Goa, which we are told will be life changing, as we can see first hand what we have been raising money for, and just how different the lives of people living in poverty is. It hasn't really hit us yet that we are going to India and that we won, but soon it will. The shock of it all is quite overwhelming, especially when the holiday draws nearer.
To celebrate, we went out for dinner in Gunwharf, with our parents, Mr Rogers, Marie and her husband, Stephen. Hopefully the prize and the thought of winning will not go to our heads, unlike the helium!!
Because we have won, we will continue to write entries on this blog, so that you can keep track of our progress leading up to the trip, and our experiences on the holiday.
Finally we would like to congratulate everyone else who finished the challenge, as, like the judges said, we are all winners.