The day draws closer!!
We now have only 6 weeks until the climb, so yesterday we had a huge fundraising day and tried out best to squeeze a little money from quite literally everyone we know, and plenty that we don't!
Firstly we have a bake sale at work, providing sweety goodness for our colleagues. We started by politely smiling and offering our treats, after a few hours this turned into standing over peoples desk and strong arming them into parting with their cash. 1700 Dirhams later Abs and Nas left the office smiling!
Then straight onto the big event, our quiz night! A brilliant 65 friends, and colleagues came to support us on the night, from all corners of the planet and all level of quiz knowledge. A small fear was soon realised, I passed the microphone to Nas at witnessed the transformation from annoying to really loud and annoying, I created a monster. He definetly enjoyed having the power of being able to make people listen to him. Bravo to Abs, he wrote the questions to his first quiz and quickly came to a simple understanding, against his adamant belief not everyone is a fan of Nintendo, harry potter and comic books! The poor man was heart broken
(As were some of the quiz participants when another comic book hero hit the projector screen)
4000 questions later we had winners, the PWC girls doing a great job despite the small number of them. Then there was our raffle, we had thankfully been given some great prizes - THANKYOU Rotana , Hilton and Raddisson Blu and the crowd gleefully received them, many many smiley faces! One of the prizes was so good we held an auction and took a brilliant donation of 1800 dirhams from our friend Nina! Great end to the night, over 9000 dirhams raised. On a quick tally up we only have 6000 left to go!!
Thank to everyone that made the effort to come, and even more to the people that donation in their absence!
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