I mentioned this briefly at the time, but I thought I better explain more about it seeing as I’ll be talking about New York very shortly!

I’m a competition freak as some of you might know. Since I was wee, I’ve been entering every competition I can (and my parent’s have made me!), especially drawing ones. I’ve won a bike (nice Raleigh Apple!), zoo tickets, Boots vouchers, a blackboard, Jolly Giant Toy shop vouchers (3 times in a row designing a birthday card!) etc etc.

So, my fave girlie style mag Star Magazine had a competition that I entered at the end of last year to win a 3 night trip to New York, staying in a 4 star hotel, $250 spending money and a helicopter trip. I sent an email to enter and I was chosen with 3 other girls as finalists to compete for this prize. We were each given a new Samsung camera phone to take as many crazy/cool pics as we could over the next 4 weeks. So, I had a massive challenge, and all I could think about was ideas for these pics and getting my pals to help! The ideas I came up with were pretty daft, and I even researched what bands were in town to see if I could get some “me with famous people” ones which are always loved by mags like that. Seeing that the Mighty Boosh were in town that month gave me a good one for my list.

I submitted my pics every week for 4 weeks as requested, then found out at the end that I’d won! I was soooooo happy and was screaming with happiness down the phone to them! I go at the start of October, and haven’t been to New York for ages so very much looking forward to it. This is also the first time that I’ll be there not doing band stuff, and the first time my boyfriend’s been at all so will be great.

Just thought I should explain all this weirdness so you understand why I’m there! Oh I love competitions!

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