Success!

After being sworn at, innuendoed and mooed at, we have found people nice enough to give us a lift to France! The intrepid trio's adventure continues, watch this space...

ITS D-DAY

SO we're finally leaving in our cow, monkey and christmas themed onesies, armed with backpacks filled with useless things.


If our naive childish optimism is right, we'll be in france within an hour. But if you want a realistic idea of our progress, follow THIS LINK to the uclu jailbreak page, where there will be 5 hourly update :)

Love Catti, Adam and Andreas XXX

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

Just to keep you posted on how we're doing, I've FINALLY sent round e-mails to a load of airlines to find out if we can get freebee tickets when (if) we arrive at an airport - Virgin, thomson, thomas cook, easy jet and british airways, so one of them must reply right?

EITHER WAY we've got some info through from Great Ormond street, so if you're on the turning point of donating or not donating, here's some info about where you're money could go:

• £25 could pay for five special masks to help newborn babies breathe.
• £100 could help pay for two week’s accommodation for parents to stay close by.
• £500 could help pay for a new play room in the hospital’s redeveloped site. 

THANKS GUYS 

UPDATE: Thomson are scrouges! Well not really, I'm just having a mini rage at their PR lady saying no to helping us... We'll still harass them and film it if we get to an airport though

Andreas and his Convincing Facial Hair

With donations rising faster than Usain Bolt strapped to a hot air balloon, it's time for some encouragement!

If you haven't donated already, here's a little something to whet your appetite:

We are in the process of making the MOST BRILLIANTEST EVER VIDEO EVER IN THE WORLD EVER.

And to show you how brilliant it's going to be, here are some clips of how much trouble we went to to get Andreas to wear a cardboard beard. Honestly, it took HOURS. So watch these, look at his face, look at his beard, think "I cannot possibly resist donating to something that adorable!", and donate! And see if you can spot Catti at any point in the video.

If your appetite isn't whetted by that, you are visually bulimic. Why bulimic? Because we want you to cough up.

Go to justgiving.com/cattiandthemedics and get the fuzzy warm feeling that Andreas hasn't suffered for nothing. And that your money's going to Great Ormond Street. Whichever is more important to you.

(WARNING: if you are sensitive to swear words please don't watch, Catti has a potty mouth)

The 10 day countdown, and other things you probably don't want to know

That's right folks, we have reached the universally recognised boundary of mediocrity and have raised a conversation-diverting 55% of our target budget. I can't pretend it hasn't been hard - enemies have been made, vital organs sold, and Adam still won't talk about that night in Soho last weekend, but with only 45% to go, does it really matter?

And so begins the 10 day countdown to the day itself, and spirits in the camp are high. It's at this point that we look at the experiences of jailbreakers gone by for their summaries of their experiences. When asked what he though of his 36 hours of jailbreaking, soul sensation James Brown remarked:

    “I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss"

It's outstanding expressions of confidence like this which will spur us on in our epic journey across the world.

Andreas, Catti and Adam x

http://www.justgiving.com/cattiandthemedics 

Good afternoon readers

Good afternoon readers (or lack thereof), it's Andreas writing from the discomfort of my box-like room at the glorious Hughes Parry Hall.

This week, we have been bothering uni-folk department wide for donations and it has been somewhat successful. We have added about £150 to our target of £500, which we hope to increase if all goes well in the next few days. I mean come on, it's for charity!

If anyone actually reads these ramblings, it would be very nice if someone could reply with some suggestions of a game-plan/route to get as far from UCL as possible. Or if anyone knows a pilot/is a pilot that also would be super helpful...

As I stare at the map of the world I imagine is pinned to my wall and dream of all the countries we could end up in, I leave you with the immortal words of Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi:

'not another fucking charity fundraiser.' 




http://www.justgiving.com/cattiandthemedics

Hello any possible readers!

If you could keep donating that'd be amazing! We're still not even CLOSE to half way which means we need any help we can get :)

If you do there's a really funny video and some adorable outtakes coming soon so its definitely worth your effort.

That and the warm fuzzy feeling you get inside after donating to charity means you should click the link on the right!

Who we are

I've noticed there are no photos of us so we could be random creepers.
We aren't. So here's some proof we exist and look fully trustworthy in this cause. Please don't let our looks put you off donating to this amazing charity!

Adam Greenwood. Looks dashing in a suit, right?

Andreas Sotiriou. Will take this challenge seriously, he promises






 

Catherine Morris. Pretends to be photogenic.

THE FIRST POST

Welcome to the dawning of a new era, a bright light in the murky sea of charity fundraising.

WE ARE CATTI AND THE MEDICS AND WE ARE GOING TO ROCK YOUR WORLD (in 36 hours and no money)

UCLU Jailbreak 2011 is an event where teams or 2-3 try to get as far away from the UCL quad as possible without spending any money on transport (and hopefully none on food, greedy little scabs that we are) in 36 hours. 

We've been collecting sponsorship (donate here, as you can see, we're not so popular at the minute...) and all proceeds will be going to the Great Ormond Street Hospital which provides world class care for children and their families.

This will be our blog, where we post photos, videos and useless ramblings on how we're doing, our plans for where we're going and how much we've raised.

Thanks for reading (and donating if you're a good person),

Love Catti, Andreas and Adam xxx