After having such a success in getting so many donations at the Ski and Snowboard Show, me and Shannon were invited back to help out at the Boat Show in January. This was at ExCel London.
Boats didn't really interest me, but I was more than happy to go and help out to raise awareness of our charity and get donations.
At the Ski and Snowboard Show back in October, we met Barbara and Stewart Lees who own a company called Fosy Originals where they create Faux Fur Accessories. They also own some apartments in a place called Zell Am See in Austria. At the show they offered us these apartments to take some children to Zell Am See for a week to learn how to sail on the beautiful lake, therefore, this is what we were promoting and raising money for at the Boat Show. Despite this, our stand was very well presented.
Our stand at this show was right to the side of the hall, in a corner and very out of the way which means not many people were walking past us. Also, people at this show were very different to people at the Ski and Snowboard show and getting donations proved extremely difficult.
The show mainly consisted of big pretty boats that were being sold for thousands or even millions. Some of the boats you were also able to go on and walk around so it was fun sitting in the drivers seats pretending they were yours (no matter how sad that is..).
During the week, on one of the days, James Corden visited to buy a boat. He started off by doing a talk to a crowd of a few hundred visitors before announcing the boat he had bought. Now I love James Corden, a lot! There were several opportunities I could have walked up to him to meet him and get a picture but me being me, I chickened out and I will never forgive myself for that.
He wasn't the only celebrity we saw in the week. On our way out of the venue during the week, we bumped into Lil Chris from The Only Way Is Essex! He was so so lovely and was really interested in what we were there for. He also said that he would tweet about our charity when he got home and charged his phone, but he never did, though he did retweet my tweet later on.
In one of the evenings, we took a trip to Canary Wharf for dinner. We walked around the shops for a while before sitting in a small chicken place to have dinner. When we were done, we went back outside and found an ice rink which we had a go on. It was quite big and had a little road track you could follow round a little Christmas and winter scene before joining back onto the main rink, it was actually a lot of fun!
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| Shannon, me and Calum, another mentor. |
We stayed in the hotel which we stayed in for the Ski and Snowboard Show, which meant we were right next to the Italian restaurant again. My 17th birthday was two days after I had got home from the show, so for our last dinner, Shannon and Ian had organised with the restaurant for a little birthday surprise for me. Once we had finished our dinner, we sat and waited. I was a little bit confused because most nights we went on to have pudding, but this night no one mentioned pudding. After a little while, all the waiters come to our table with a giant tiramisu with candles in and everyone started singing happy birthday. I didn't expect this at all and I almost started crying I was in so much shock. I wasn't too pleased with the tiramisu because I didn't think I liked it, but I tried it and it has become my favourite ever desert, apart from cheesecake..
After this, the waiters bought some little lemon shots out to us which I tried. It burnt my throat more than anything and Shannon managed to get quite and amusing picture of me drinking it but unfortunately that picture has gone missing.
As much as the boat show wasn't of much interest to us, we still had a good week and the things we did were really fun!
Don't be afraid,
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