Yes, this is really happening...

Hello boys and girls and non-gender-fixed people of the Internet world.

How is everyone? Well, I can tell you I am excited. And sick. But more exited. Less than a week and the entire Team 83 and the other three individual winners will be in Rome and it's still as unbelievable as it was four months ago when we found out that we won.

Wait. Four months? It has been four full months already since I sat in my uncle's house on Christmas day and suddenly got a phone call and Inga was screaming into my ear that we won? Four months already since I screamed, ran through the house, almost had a nervous breakdown because I didn't have internet immediately available so I could check for myself and tweet? Where the bloody hell has the time gone?

Unbelievable that this time next week I will be in Rome with my girls, my best friends in the world, for the first time all five of us in the same place. This time next week I will have already met my amazing team mates who were so wonderful and I could not wish for any other. And I will have met the three individual winners who all seem like such lovely and amazing people. And we will share this experience together. This unique, exciting and also very, very mad experience.

To be honest with you, it still doesn't feel real and I doubt it ever really will. That we will fly to Rome, that we will have dinner with Misha Collins and that we will all share this together - it seems insane. Unbelievable.

Most things are sorted. All the flights, all the hotels are booked, everyone (more or less) is looking into what could be done in Rome (I'm sure we'll find something to keep us entertained) and the clock is ticking down.

A recent topic that has come up is what everyone will be wearing for the dinner. I personally am still deciding between two dresses. A grey, sleeveless one that's a bit longer and a short black one. I'll take them both and decide spontaneously. Life is not easy as a fat person.

Another thing that's happening is a scavenger hunt that we are to complete in Rome. Well, I say 'complete'. We will pick items that we can do and then upload them. I'm sure they will be shared here as well as on the GISHWHES site, so keep an eye open for that. Funnily in the very beginning after we won Jenny had the idea of doing some sort of scavenger hunt for our own entertainment but that has been kind of dismissed but everyone was on board when Jean-Louis asked us if we would participate so that's definitely something to look forward to. I'm interested to see what you all came up with to torture entertain us.

For now I have to go back to real life and do some work for university - and by that I mean, I will go and watch a movie and procrastinate until there is absolutely no way around doing my work finally.

This has been an update.

Good bye.

Or as they said in Rome 2000 years ago

Valete!