Trying to become Santa’s Jingle Belle

There are many things you don’t expect to do in your 20’s, and becoming Santa’s not-so-little helper would have topped my list, had I even considered it a possibility.

Having undergone the unfortunate evolutionary jump from excited kid to “it’s not even Hallowe’en yet!”, I had my concerns about my ability to be jolly and nice in September, but Santa needed his elf helpers and despite my only previous experience having been leaving out milk and cookies for the famous man in red, who was I to let him down?

When I arrived at the Kingsley Hotel, Cork City, I soon forgot the reality of September outside the front doors. A suite normally reserved for business meetings was transformed into a Winter Wonderland for the day of auditions to be an elf helper.