I was struggling to come up with something because I don’t enter many competitions so I’m not someone who wins prizes on a regular basis, but I remembered that I won an award a couple of years back and although it wasn’t a massive prize, it really made my day back then.

It was when I was studying at university, I used to use Facebook a lot back then, and this competition, which was run by a cat food company, appeared on my feed. It was a competition to win a year’s supply of cat food and you had to submit a funny or unusual photo of your cat.

It was pretty simple to enter, you just had to upload the photos. I didn’t give it a second thought and a month or so later, I got an email saying that I’d won. I couldn’t believe it at the time! I was so surprised.
It was the first time I had won anything and it was such a great feeling actually. They sent me vouchers for the cat food and I was happy with them.

I honestly don't know why I got the award.
As a matter of fact, I was not able to see the other submissions with the cat pictures, so I could not compare them.

After winning that prize, I was motivated to enter more competitions, but I didn’t win anything else so I got a bit fed up and I haven’t entered one for ages. It is an amazing feeling when you win though, I was buzzing for days. Maybe, I should start doing it again.