sunnuntai 26. elokuuta 2012

... unexpected events

Sorry for the long period of silence, but I have lived through curious times. So much has happened during these weeks!
I got a place to study contemporary dance first at Karjaa of Finland, and I thought my plans for next year were settled. However, then I heard from one girl at a contemporary dance course that there is still an audition for those who would like to study in Iwanson, International school of contemporary dance in Munich. That was about 10th of August. Suddenly I decided to try Iwanson as well (I had nothing to lose, except the flight tickets money), and managed to enroll myself in the last, informal audition for this year. I had only one problem: the audition would be in Munich on 20th and 21th of August, and I had a ticket for P-Stereo music festival in Trondheim for 18th of August. How to make it from Middle-Norway to Munich in a day? I knew I wouldn´t miss the festival for anything - I mean, it would be my first time to see Mew!
Somehow I managed to book the flights from Helsinki to Oslo, the bus from Oslo to Trondheim (the trip was nice, even though it took 8 hours), and the Sunday flight from Trondheim to Munich, and then a flight from Munich  back home. I even managed to be at the airports on time, find the gates, and the hotel, too. And I got the study place at Iwanson! So, I´m moving to Munich in three weeks now. I´ve already found an apartment in Sendling... I still cannot believe I´m going to live there possibly at least three years! I cannot believe I got the study place either - I got some kind of salmonella poisoning in Trondheim and was too sick to be there on 21th of August, but they told me anyhow I could start studying there. I know it will be so much better than Karjaa would have been!
There is more: When I was in Trondheim to see Mew (it was freaking amazing) and went to the airport the morning after the Show, I met them! Jonas and Silas were there at the same wing as me sitting at a cafe, Bo was somewhere else. When I first noticed them my heart started beating like crazy and I felt so nervous I could hardly breathe. I however made myself go to their table - Jonas was reading some novel, and when he saw me he looked very friendly and not at all annoyed (as could be a person who is frequently disturbed by over-enthusiastic fans), so I found the courage to say:
Sorry to disturb you, but could I please have your autograph? I was yesterday at your gig.
I noticed immediately my word order sucked, but I guess the message was succesfully received, as Jonas nodded, smiled and took my pen and pitiful peace of paper I had found in my bag and started writing.

I wonder how you can turn "Bo Madsen" into that frill on the left... The Rest should be clear.
The meeting was shortly over (and I felt shivers of fright when I noticed I had called Bo Bo instead of mr. Madsen), but I felt knocked out by this truly unlikely and definitely unthought-of meeting. I have dreamed about seeing and talking to Jonas and the rest of the band for as long as I have listened to them (two years), but never in my life I would have guessed it would actually happen, let alone this quickly! I mean, how many of the fans of Mew can actually say they have talked to them? In the plane when they passed me at the aisle, Jonas asked me about if I was flying via Copenhagen (as he had previously asked me if I was from Helsinki), which is of course a trivial question, but somehow I felt very happy about it, because it indicated he had been listening and he was genuinely interested me as a fan of his band.
I keep thinking about all this and I still have nothing more to say than WHAT THE FUDGE? My life is very peculiar at the moment.
I only hope I would have asked them to come to Helsinki soon, except I won´t be there myself :S At least I said:
You are my number one band in the world.
(Again, where are the words when I need them most? This was so clumsy).
(And why didn´t I ask for a photograph with them and me? I suppose you don´t believe me now, sad...).
 I will put some pics of Trondheim later.
Meanwhile, watch this. Wish I had been there, too!

3 kommenttia:

  1. Hi Tuula,
    I'm following your blog for a couple of weeks now - stumbled across it somehow. :-)
    So, you're moving to Munich...welcome then. It's a nice city, but can be really annoying from time to time as well. I'm curious about how you will like it. And all the best for your studies.

    VastaaPoista
  2. hi,
    thank you, and I´m glad you like my blog :D I think I will like Munich, at least it will be nice to live in other city than Helsinki for a while. I´m only worried about how I will find the places to be in Munich (flea markets, art galleries etc.), as they took their time in Helsinki, too. But I guess I just have to live the city to get to know it :))

    VastaaPoista
  3. Hi,
    I'm pretty sure you'll manage to find all the places that are interesting to you.
    There's something for almost everybody here, I'd say.
    Maybe this magazine can help you a little bit: http://www.in-muenchen.de/ - they do list very different things, concerts, cinema, exhibitions, flea markets. It's also available in print, every fortnight on Thursday, and you can get it in e.g. bookshops, cafés,... But it's only in german. And there are many things to find with a google search. ;-)

    VastaaPoista