Ok might as well try and start typing up my trip report, but I guess most of this stuff won't have anything to do with Morning Musume HAHAHAHAH I don't give a fuck SUFFER!!!
Most physically and mentally draining trip ever, but still for some reason I just feel like
<- that
Wednesday 30th - took a train at about 12:50 to Helsinki, couldn't sleep, arrived in Helsinki at 22:52 or so. Met up with FUSHI!!! We were lucky to get ourselves a little bit to eat before McDonalds closed, then headed to the airport. We tried to sleep a bit but hummm at least I kept waking up. I think I was feeling too cold to sleep, which is like the theme of this trip LOL.
Thursday 1st - Our plane to Amsterdam left after 7am. Lala. Amsterdam airport was kinda fun. MIND YOUR STEP. I discovered that orange juice makes me happy
Ahh... Dutch sounds like a mix of German, French and Swedish, it's fricking insane.
Um like 13:45 our plane landed in Paris.
THIS IS WHEN THINGS STARTED TO GO WRONG.
We spent ages trying to find the spot where bus 350 would come, asked an info point like 3 times, they couldn't really speak English and were rude and their info wasn't helpful... The maps at the airport? Useless as well... Then we were sure we found the bus stop, but then it wouldn't arrive and there was no schedule etc. WTF! I tried to contact Kea to find out more info about the expo signing session, so that we could decide whether to go to expo (to try to get in the signing thing) or just straight to hotel because we hadn't slept much lol. We just decided to go to expo anyway. Well, our bus wouldn't arrive so we took a metro instead. I have to say that metro is the easiest to figure out when it comes to public transport in France, not that it helped us much because there was no metro station near our hotel LOL. But at least we could get to the expo...
The expo... OK. Imagine pretty much staying up all night, then being thrown into a place with 30+ celsius heat, craptons of people and noise... How is that NOT hell
I felt sorry for the guys selling tickets cuz they were stuck in the sun >o< But still the guy who sold us our tickets was really cute and nice
Well we got inside the expo and tried to find Kea, walked by the J.E. Shop and didn't see her and then got a bit lost
Then walked back to the J.E. Shop and saw her briefly. 'Sup
Hum hum. Signing session was a no-no... We were gonna go stalk the signing session, but we were super tired and hungry and had no idea where to find the signing area (that expo is HUGE!) so we decided to just head to the hotel. EXCEPT we got LOST trying to find our way OUT of the expo ROFL oh my god!!!!
When we finally got out of the expo, it was already past 5pm. Went to the bus stop area, asked a bus driver if our bus was gonna run and she just babbled in French lol The story of our trip. Then we discovered that 350 wouldn't come anymore that day, oh joy. So we went to ask the info point how to get to our hotel, she also didn't speak English. (....) Then she gave us 2 tickets and kind of told us where to go, except I think we got off a stop too early but whatever.
We ended up at Aulnay Sous Bois or something stop, then had no idea what to do next. We figured we were probably supposed to take a bus next, but we couldn't find a bus stop. Then after asking tons of random people and trying to find a map (and didn't get one haha) we finally got directions on where to find a bus stop. We had to go underneath the train tracks to the other side, then asked police men there and they directed us to the bus station. And THERE we had to ask like 3 different bus drivers about what bus would take us to our hotel. When we spotted our bus, the driver bus taking a break or something and we had to wait ages until we could actually get on.
Oh my god. So in the end it ended up taking us
THREE HOURS (or more?) to get to our hotel!
At the hotel we needed something to eat, so we went outside trying to find a grocery store. Walked to like 3 different directions and nothing.
At about 20:45 we returned to the hotel and asked the info person on more info, but she said the store would close at 9pm so we couldn't get there in time. So we had to have dinner at the hotel, fricking 10,50e. *so expensive >o<* But whatever, I think we were just happy to survive that day haha. Went to bed at about 10PM and that was THE ONLY NIGHT THAT WE SLEPT IN A BED during our entire trip haha.
Friday 2nd - The plan was to get to the expo early for the signing session draw thing, but we needed to get food first. So we finally walked and walked and found the store!! OMG never been so happy to see a grocery store before. Too bad it opened only at 8:30am, so we had to wait a bit. Anyway, got some ORANGE JUICE
and stuff, so we headed to the expo ^_^ This time had no trouble with the bus 350, either. By the time we got there it was still already like 10am though, and there were huge lines and shit. The sun was shining, SO HOT!!! But we did get in eventually, asked some French Momusu fans where the lining up was, found it and joined it. Lined up for like 2 hours and when it was finally our turn - NO GO. lol Somehow we weren't surprised because most things on our trip had gone wrong so far, and that could only continue
After that we just decided to go line up for the concert to get nice spots. Except we again got lost trying to find the concert place, which turned out to be quite a long walk away from the expo.
But yusssh we got there!!
We got excellent spots at the line ^___^ Not because we were near the beginning of the line, but because we got spots between TheKueken&her friends and Japanese wota behind us. After breaking the ice
TheKueken was a lot of fun, it was really nice to meet you if you're reading this ^_________^ At first there were 3 Japanese fans behind us: A Junjun fan (who was cute doing the wota moves haha), a hardcore awesome Eri fan, and a female Aichan fan in yellow. But then later they were joined by another Eri fan, who was... ahh.. DREAMY
OMG. Love at first sight. T__T He was so cool. When he arrived he was all sweaty (because it was HOT) and he kept wiping himself with a towel and was so sexy oh my god. I called him many things during the trip (hottis, hunkki, hunkkibebe, ihana, ihkubeibe?, etc) haha every time I talked about him I had to speak in Finnish because it would've been too embarrasing to have anyone but Fushi understand what I'm saying. I'm like telling Fushi "omg that one Japanese fan is so hot omg"
I think I fangirled him more than I fangirled fucking Momusu during that trip hahaah
The lining up was so much fun!!!! Especially after they started doing a soundcheck inside the concert hall and we could hear the music. So everyone got in the mood, was dancing and doing wota things, yelling names, etc. I was too shy to yell anything though
But yeah.... GOOD TIMES! Ah. My eyes had leaking problems again now and then but I felt happy with the mood rising and with the Japanese fans being so chillax and with TheKueken and Fushi being fun and the hunky guy being so close
HAPPINESSS
When we got inside the concert hall, I got kind of close to the stage (2nd or 3rd row), but still not a great spot because they later added the hueg fucking camera in the front, and there were lots of heads blocking my view of the centre of the stage. BUT it was still a great spot in a way because there was absolutely nothing blocking my view of the very right side of the stage! So whenever a Momusu member came to the right of the stage to wave to us, I could see them perfectly and I'm sure they could see me too ^_____^ And every time I waved like crazy and smiled to give them!! Fushi, however, had to exit even before the concert started because she started feeling ill and she missed most of the concert. But she got help from a super cute staff member
and was actually quite upbeat when I got back to her after the concert
"THAT GIRL WAS SO CUTE OMG" ahahah she was talking about the staff girl more than I was talking about Momusu
(tbh I didn't want to make her feel bad for missing the concert so I kept my stuff to minimum haha)
The concert was great! I had to spend just about all the time on my toes so my legs were shaking and awkwardness, and I had to get support from the people in front of me so that I wouldn't fall down ahahah. But FUCK THAT I was there to have a great concert experience and I fought hard and I got it! lol ALL OF THE MOMUSU GIRLS WERE SO LOVELY!! They smiled so brightly and waved to us and ah.
Thanks to my spot in the right corner, I'm pretty sure I had eyecontact with every single one of them, which is way more than I expected before the concert!! But I think it got confirmed that Aichan is my favourite member... Because I thought I was smiling *all* the time when someone came close to the corner, but when Aichan did it and looked at my direction, I just felt my face changing even to a bigger grin, which I didn't think was possible!!
HER SMILE IS SO BEAUTIFUL! THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD!!! Best moment of the concert for me was when Aichan and Linlin (my two favs before the concert!) came to the right side and did like a hug thing and looked at my direction!! It was like HOLY HELL THIS IS LIKE THOSE PICS FROM LINLIN'S BLOG!! THAT IS MY TWO FAVOURITES! THEY ARE SMILING AND LOOKING AT ME!!! AND THEY ARE HUGGING!! MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!! Hahahahha OMG.
Aichan was having erotic moments on stage, omg some of the faces that she pulls are just AHHHH waow wtf! She did this groarrr sexy face once and I just about died. And then at one point she was doing some bum moving in front of me
AIBUTT.COM!!!! OMG I love that girl so much!!
Eri is also... fricking EROTIC
It's like you're watching them and everyone is dancing lala, then you see Eri and it's like WHOAHH what is that girl DOING!!! She was shaking her hair and omg. Her dancing is just insanely hot. If Aichan wasn't so fucking hot I'd vote Eri #1 in the H!P hotness poll next year
Everyone was lovely but I especially remember finding Mitsui cuuuute ^_^ Which isn't surprising because I remember people in LA being impressed by her as well. But yeah, that girl is so precious!!
And yup Yuuchan was at the concert as well, I enjoyed singing along to the classic Momusu songs
I wasn't that surprised that she cried since I view her as an emotional person, but it was SWEEEET!! I love all the chants that she got lol.
After the concert, I love all their songs just about a billion times more than I did before
And want to become a more active fan again, since I've been so lazy lol
I guess there's no more important details about the concert, so skipping forward. Kea had told us before that she and her friends were going to line up for the "first come, first serve" signing session overnight in front of the expo. Because we really wanted to make it to the signing session, me and Fushi decided to join them. But we figured that we probably wouldn't be able to get to the hotel and back conveniently, so ... we just went straight from the concert to the expo area to wait for Kea and her buds to find out where to line up.
So for the record, I spent the entire night outside wearing nothing but a sleeveless top, mini shorts and a summer scarf. Even the socks I wore weren't long ones lol. It also wasn't a very warm night because it was cloudy, windy and it even rained a little for a while. I FROZE TO DEATH. I reached the point of freezing where I would just shiver and shake and nothing could make it stop. I'm pretty sure this has left me long term emotional damage and I will not be able to enjoy a breeze of wind for a long, long time to come, because it will remind me of how cold I was this night. But I'm going to sauna in a bit so hopefully I will feel better then.
The GOOD thing about this night is, and which makes it worth it (...) was that the Japanese fans appeared again, and tho they were away from us we got to hang out with them for a few minutes, and teh HUNKIE was there and he was wearing glasses and he sat next to me for a little while TT__TT
GLASSES!!! HOTTIE!!! HAPPINESS.... Too bad the J-fans discovered that Fushi speaks Japanese, but I was too shy to say that I do too, so they just kept talking to her and I just sat there awkwardly (staring at the hottie) ..... But yeah they were really nice and chillax again and ah I love hottie's voice (...) That little moment saved my night haha. Whenever I tried to sleep I just kept thinking of the hottie and ignoring whatever was happening around me hahaha
Highlight of the morning was when Fushi needed to go to toilet and we went inside the expo building, where they had already fenced off some areas. Well lo and behold, the HOTTIE
came inside as I was waiting for Fushi before the fence, and I got to say "ohayou" to him
tho I probably looked confused and scared instead of smiling nicely but
He's so cool. I got to say something to him and he replied ah. T_T Things like these keep a girl warm inside. Anyway, I could also show him where he could go around the fence and he went like "ah" and OMG so sexy. HAhahah That is the 2nd reason why lining up outside all night was worth it.
Then... When the opening got closer, it suddenly started raining heavily and everyone rushed towards the entrance and me and Fushi totally lost our spots. Inside I was stuck behind another Asian cute dude and felt this need to lean against his warm looking fleece shirt, but I was able to restrain myself. Haha. But when we got pushed forward, I got whammed against his back so that I accidentally got a feel of his bum haahhahah omg. It's the little things that keep a freezing shirenu sane. But yeah then I moved to another spot and was suddenly placed so that I could stare at the hottie again.
I think it was meant to be, it was just ridiculous how I ended up constantly in a spot where I could see him even if I didn't try haha. But I don't even want to guess how many times he caught me staring at him
He probably thinks I'm a creepy stalker
Especially cuz I looked like HELL at that point
ANYWAY when we finally got in so that we could go get the 'first come first serve' tickets we ran like hell - FOR NOTHING. I'm not sure what happened, but there were already a ton of people inside and all the tickets were GONE. Like wtf. Yes guys, we lined up ALL NIGHT, freezing to death, for what seems like nothing. SHIT!
For Fushi and me it wasn't really nothing though for reasons above ^ Fushi had her own nice moments but meh not my job to type that lol.
It's funny how I wasn't really that angry or sad at that moment though. If I had thought about this happening before, I would've thought I would definitely cry. But nope, nothing. Just felt... nothing. Maybe I was too tired and cold to care D:
Hmmm after that we walked around a bit all confused. I realized I hadn't handed in my fanletters to Aichan and Linlin yet, so we went looking for the signing session where you could leave the gifts. Except I think you needed a ticket to get in to do that as well, but there was a really lovely French girl at the signing entrance who kept apologizing that she couldn't let us in the signing line, but that she could take my letters to Momusu. And that's all I wanted so yay ^_^ She was really nice, awww. On our way to the session we had seen the hottie AGAIN who asked Fushi if we had got tickets and laughed and said he hadn't got one either. (SO CUTE
) Then after handing in my letters we saw the Japanese Aichan fan standing at the side of the signing session thing preparing to take photos, so we went there to prepare to stare at MM during the signing as well. Of course we hadn't realized before that you could just see them there during every signing >o< But at least we got to see them there once. On Thursday we were tired and hungry, and on Friday we had been lining up for the concert anyway, so I'm not gonna bother thinking about what we missed. Haha
When Momusu appeared at the signing we at first had a great view of Aichan and a poor view of everyone else. Aichan's smile
Then we were told to move because there was another event about to start where we were standing. But on the opposite side there was a nice view as well, especially of Mitsui, Junjun and Linlin who would wave to fans a lot ^_^ Mitsui next to Reina who sometimes took forever to sign, so she would get a lot of 'free' moments to look around and interact with fans. So cute
And Linlin and Junjun were the last in line so whenever someone else was taking a lot of time, they were always free haha. It wasn't really a signing session, but a waving session.
It took a while, but in the end I was able to wave to everyone, which is lovely ^___^ I tried to show a heart sign with my hands but I was still freezing (where was that fucking wind coming from to inside the expo GRRR) so my hands were clumsy and argh haha. But yooossshaaa I even got to wave to Reina finally, had to wait forever though because she was either busy writing or waving just to people in the front, but in the end she looked to the right as well heehee <3. It was nice!!
After that it was time to try to find our way back to the hotel because we still hadn't showered after the concert, hadn't slept properly, or eaten properly, ...or anything, and I was DYING to brush my teeth.
On our way out though, we spotted a magazine cover of Hangry & Angry on the wall, so we walked to it and just stared at Rika-chan for a minute in respectful awe and silence hahaa so weird. We were just drawn to her and I didn't even want to leave that spot haha omg Rika-chan save us. TT__TT
She's so perfect. She's the best. Uhummm anyway, eventually we realized we had to get moving so we did
..And then it took us over 3 hours AGAIN to get to our hotel.
At first we were waiting for bus 350, but it just wouldn't show up (LOL wtf is it with this bus) so we decided to take the same route we took before. So we got on the metro ok, got to the other bus stop ok, ...only to discover that the bus that we took before wasn't running on Saturday. WTF!!!!!!!! We were told to go on another bus that would take us to our hotel's directions, but that "we would have to walk". Understatement of the year. >_> The bus dropped us what feels like in the middle of nowhere. We asked everyone we saw for directions, and everyone told us to go a different way. We walked a lot of zigzag, saw random sites where people had dumped their garbage, saw what looked like a slum, saw some weird site where like a building was falling down etc. ROMANTIC PARIS INDEED! I needed to poop so bad, I was dying. The last 10min of our walk to the hotel I could only concentrate on keeping the poop inside. I'm sorry that's TMI but seriously... Freezing in the cold? shirenu can survive. Getting lost for hours? shirenu can survive. But poop emergency? shirenu will BEGIN TO BREAK THINGS. OMG. WHen we finally spotted an ad for our hotel, omg, I can't even explain the feeling. Then when we finally recognized a place where we had walked before and knew the hotel was only a minute away, OMG. Unexplainable. T_T
Shower. Toothpaste. Toilet. WARM CLOTHES. BED. Oh my god. The simple awesome things of life that I will hopefully never again take for granted >o< Sadly our trip to the hotel had taken so long that we had no time to sleep (we had planned to take a nap) before we had to head downtown again to meet Chrno and hopefully go sightseeing. SOrry to Chrno for all the complications of meeting up :/ I hope after hearing about all our experiences you'll understand why we may have seemed tired and confused and weird ughhhh!
Because we had had so many troubles travelling before, we decided to already check out of the hotel and head straight to the airport from downtown. WHich meant another night at the airport with trying to sleep in awkward positions.
But we were just so tired of the public transport at the point I think. Anyway, after a lot of hassle we were finally able to meet Chrno and HOLY HELL!!! She's like the female, singing version of daigong OMG!! So hyper so cute. She took us to eat TT__TT
Which was perfect for our needs. Orange juice
But for some reason I couldn't eat all of my meal. I feel so sorry to my body for all this trip haha. It must have been, and still be, so confused. Hmm after the meal I suddenly got REALLY tired. like BAM. It's insane. THe moment I closed my eyes I was somewhere else, just completely knocked out. If felt like I was in a dream world and Chrno and Fushi were just some kind of hallucinations
I wanted to go see the Notre Dame or at least Eiffel Tower, but... it was just impossible. It couldn't be done. But I had promised to take a picture to Stryfe as a hunchback in front of Notre Dame, so here we go:
Stalking pic
I was joking in chat in IRC how hilarious it would be to go to Paris and never even ending up seeing the Eiffel Tower. Well, that's exactly what ended up happening
FUCK THAT!!!!!!!!! I saw what I came to see
What then... Well we somehow got to the airport, I was falling asleep every moment I closed my eyes which was crazy. At the airport we tried to sleep, their chairs were fucking annoying and difficult to sleep in though :/ ...which isn't that surprising considering it was in Paris and everything in Paris is difficult and annoying. HAHAHAHAHHAH ummmm. Fushi was like sleeping on the floor, and at some point in the morning we wake up to some official telling her to move with people lined up behind him. And we realize that people are being shoved out of the place and there are military people and shit. We ask someone what's going on and she says there's a suspicious bag so BOMB ALERT lol. What a PERFECT ENDING to our perfectly FLAWLESS trip hahahahaha
But whatever, we didn't blow up. Everything was ok. Amsterdam still told us to mind our step.
In Helsinki we were finally able to take pics with the Moomin statue that Rika hugged:
RIKA-CHAN!!!!In our series of the effects of the trip on shirenu...
Shirenu, tired but still decent in Amsterdam on her way to Paris:
Shirenu after gettting sun burned and lining up all night outside for tickets (but after shower ahh):
^ SO HORRIBLE
So yeah most of this doesn't have FUCK ALL to do with Momusu but I don't give a fuck I'm way too tired to write separate fucking posts now so DEAL WITH IT!!!!!
I MISSED JPHIP SO MUCHHH OMG YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST I REALLY REALIZED THAT
Lessons learned:
- Public transport in Paris is hell
- People at infos in Paris don't speak English
- People at infos in Paris are useful about 5% of the time
- Tell people in France that you don't speak French and they'll smile apologetically and leave, even if a moment earlier they were enthusiastically asking or telling you something
But also that:
- NICE PEOPLE WILL *ALWAYS* MAKE *ANYTHING* BETTER. SO BE NICE. APPRECIATE NICE PEOPLE. REMEMBER NICE PEOPLE. THAT'S WHAT MATTERS
- MORNING MUSUME IS AMAZING. THE EXPO SUCKED, ALMOST EVERYTHING SUCKED, BUT MOMUSU WAS AMAZING. THOSE GIRLS ARE WORTH LOVING, WORTH SUPPORTING, WORTH SUFFERING FOR HAHAHA.
A lot of bad stuff happened, but I know I will mostly remember and cherish the good. Cuz FUCK if I let some shit get me down when I've seen AICHAN SMILE, to ME! And a hot hot hottie Eri wota
(...)
OK THIS IS REALLY RANDOM AND LONG. SORRY. K!! I'M DONE!
Oh!! fuck damn!! THANK YO FUSHI I can't imagine a better travelling partner for this trip. Even if things got stressful, we never yelled at each other or blamed each other for anything. That was pretty amazing.
And when things got real shitty? We just laughed. Laughed and laughed
OMG. I had a great time with you. Thanks for trying to keep me warm
I think I was supposed to look after you since I'm older than you, but there were most definitely moments when you ended up looking after me
If it wasn't for you asking random ppl for advice too, I think I'd still be stuck in the middle of nowhere somewhere. So THANK YOU PARTNER
mind your step~
NOW! I'm done
Oh...
If anyone knows how I can find more info about the hot Eri wota. Please let me know. >_> Thanks!!!
Topic: [07/01-07/04] MORNING MUSUME Guest of honor of Japan Expo Paris (who's down P.1) (Read 75874 times)