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Lollipop day – Friday the 27^th 2015, the day that the Oesophageal Cancer Fund (OCF) aim to raise awareness of the symptoms related to oesophageal cancer and to provide funding for research into the disease. Read more Here

Back in December all TY students stood along Grafton street freezing cold to raise money with the holly day collection so when we heard we had to do it again for lollipop day we weren't so much jumping with excitement for the cause more so the thought of missing a day of school. But to my surprise it was probably one of the best days out I’ve had in a good while!

The day started with fights of giggles about a stupid dress nobody knew the colour of. We all got so annoyed to what colour it was and defended the colour we say like it was a million euro in our back pocket. After we all got fed up at looking we headed to the loud and hot stuffy bus full of music and teenage girls with too much energy for 9 in the morning.

The dropped us outside Abercrombie and we walked down to the meet up area to get our lollipops and collection boxes. One the way we say so many people helping the cause and noticed they had balloons! Yes maturity of us acted like 6 year olds hoping we’d get a balloon as well. The building we had to meet at as raja but it was “oh so Tumblr like” with the wedding dresses around the place, a little cute café and a shop full of random pretty little household goods.

A ceiling full of balloons, boxes full of hates, tubes of lollipops and stakes of t-shirts was what cover the area! The colours pink, white and black were all over the place. We all ran to grip a string so we could take a balloon from the roof and it was most defiantly first on there get it because they were gone in seconds! Once the balloons where taken we all found ourselves being handed tops and hats. All kitted out we then got a collection box between two and went out to do our task set. This was when the real adventure started!

Who would have thought something so basic like a balloon and wind could put two people in such good moods? I think the day was so good because Alison and I started walking to the spot we wanted to sell at with our balloons getting stuck around poles, hitting each other and flying out of control. We couldn’t stop laughing at how stupid we must have looked with them tided to our bags. Alison did the honours of getting us started by asking the first person she saw “would you like to buy a balloon for oesophageal cancer? Yessss I meant to type balloon! The woman stopped and bought a lollypop as we weren’t selling balloons as Alison had to awkwardly point out after she made the mistake. To our surprise we didn’t struggle to sell the lollypops. Ok there were a few people that gave us looks or kept walking but people who stopped where so lovely and kind to us. We were even asked by a woman would we not of moved because we were a corner and the wind would make us cold! We took her advice because after an hour or so we were numb but we were still laughing at everything that happened.

At about half 11 we started to feel a bit hungry and standing out Butler’s chocolate and across from ginos ice-cream really didn’t help so we decided to break at 12 for a quick snack to warm ourselves up. We practically ran down to McDonnell’s because we were so cold and for the first time of many we saw the guy from FM104. he smiled at us as we laughed about how we were going into McDonnell’s with our balloons and then on the way back up to sell after our tea and cookies we say him again and this time he stopped us and asked us what was our most embarrassing moment and me and Alison thought long and hard on if we really wanted to answer but in the end we did and he said if we listen to the radio over the next few days we could hear ourselves. We then went back to freeze and sell and once again it was very successful. At 1 we thought it might be a good idea if we had an actual meal so we went back to McDonnell’s and this time when we say the man from FM104 we gave him a sticker for lollypop day and after McDonnell’s we got pictures with him for our blog. He probably thought we were the biggest stalkers ever but don’t worry when we were leaving we had to pass him again and we said sorry for stalking him.

The day was over before we knew it and it was time to head back to the place we started to return the money. the day of raising money was over but the adventure didn’t end for Alison and I because next thing we knew we were deep in conversation about everything and anything and were as happy as can be and then to add to happy we were we given free a sample of free ice-cream from murphy’s ice-cream shop and let me add I so would of went back for more if we had time. It was amazing. Just as we thought it was over two men asked us what lollipop day was because they were from Germany and they didn’t understand so we explained and they donated to the cause and off we went to bring the money and spare lollipops back.

When we arrived to the “oh so Tumblr place” I returned the t-shirt as we were told we couldn’t keep them but we could keep the hats and balloons so my balloon stayed tied to my bag and my hat stayed firm to my head. I didn’t expect the day to be even as half as good as it was. It was a day well spent with a friend and time well needed for a charity.

Pictures

What I looked like walking around

Lollipops

Balloon and hat

Our FM104 friend! (didnt find out his name)

Im just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but im doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. I hope you liked reading about my fabulous day out! Miss.Galligan! x

*P.S the lollipops tasted so good!8