Turkey- part one- how I won the holiday!

So how did I come to win a holiday to Turkey...

In the aftermath of the Haiti disaster one of my fellow collegues sent an email around explaing how her friend's law firm who was putting together a raffle to raise funds to contribute to aid for the country. As some of you may know I work at a media agency and a lot of my co workers spoke to their clients to get together some exciting prizes to entice people to by tickets for the raffle. One of the clients was lastminute.com.

In our office we are lucky to have a drinks trolley that comes around on Friday afternoons at 4pm serving employees a collection of beers and wines as a thank you for their weeks work. Usually the drinks are free but when we are collecting money for charities sometimes we are asked to contribute a £1 or £2 for a drink.

On this particular Friday the contribution was a ticket for the above mentioned raffle. I was short on cash but really wanted a drink so i borrow £2 from my boss in order to purchase just one ticket and get a lovely glass of wine.

The following week was a bad one for me personally, I was having problems with my then boyfriend I was in a particularly foul mood when I opened the email with the list of ticket numbers that had won the prizes for the Haiti raffle.

Would you believe I won the main prize!!!!! The raffle wasnt even organised by my company but by a law firm that I still dont know the name of!!!!

The prize I won was an all inclusive holiday to Antalya, Turkey for 2 people. This included accomodation at the 5 star resort, Royal wings, Airport transfers, drinks, food, entertainment! In total I believe the holiday was worth roughly £2,000!

It was only fitting that I invited my flatmate who I had moved countries with to accompany me given everything we have been through in London I wanted to share this experience with her.

Sometimes I think great things happen in life to make up for the crappy things you go through, I think this was my karma and I was trully lucky to have won.

x

P.S A massive thank you to my boss for the £2 lend and yes I paid her the money back!