Aug
27.
2012
On Thursday I left my city by bus. 19 hours to Poland. But every minute was worth it. In Berlin I finally met my friend Mel, who came with me to Sopot. On Friday we arrived at about 1pm in Gdynia, from where had to take the train to Sopot.
When we arrived at our appartement we had to realize: "Wow! That's not what we have expected, but ok, it was just for 2 nights." Everything looked so oldschool, bathroom was not the cleanest one and one of the beds collapsed in the 2nd night.
At about 6pm we went to Opera Lesna. Sadly it was raining and afterwards we looked like a drowned cat. The show started at 8pm. We really didn't understand any words. Ok, that's no wonder when you don't speak any Polish words. Basically we were just there to see our big idol Eric Saade. During the show, I received a textmessage of Tomas, Eric's manager, which said, that we could meet Eric after his performance at the backstagedoor. We were so happy, that we could see him again after the backstagemeeting in Malmö in March.
Then he came on stage. Looking great like every time. And his performance was nearly perfect. I realized, that he made some mistakes, but ok, he was quite nervous, cause it was his first appearence on Polish TV and so it was excusable.
His performance ended with a big applause from the audience, and that was our signal to stand up and go to the backstagedoor to meet him. And then he came aswell. My heart was beating like a jungledrum ;) First some Polish fans took some pics with him and gave him some presents. Then he said, he had to go. We were like "WTF?", but his manager told him, that some German fans were also waiting for him. Puuuh! :) I gave him a list with all the names of our fanbase and told him, that these are the names of about 700 fans living in Germany. He was like "WOW! That's awesome! I never knew that I have so much fans there" and showed the list to his manager, who was also fascinated. Afterwards I gave him some sweets: Toffifee, Giotto and Marzipan, cause I knew that he likes everything with nuts :) He was very thankful and posted later 3 pics of all my presents on his Instagram-account. We took some photos and then was the time to say byebye :( But it was so good to see him again.
Some minutes later we met 2 of his dancers: Rim and Alex. They were happy to meet us and they took some time to talk with us, to take some pictures and receive some presents. Rim really loved the Skittles we gave here. She's very addicted to them :D Alex was very happy when I told him, that we spreaded his auditionvideo for the Believetour. He was very perplexed, but very thankful that we love his video and showed the video to thousands of other people. They had to leave after a while and we went back to out seats to enjoy the rest of the show. Eric has won 2 awards that night. So proud of him!
On Saturday we did some sightseeing in Sopot and went by boat to Gdansk. Both cities are very beautiful and very recommendable.
Sunday was the last day in Poland. After we have packed our luggage, we went again to the Opera to shoot some pictures and we could arrange to take home 2 festivalposters as a souvenier :) At 11am we went to Gdynia by train, did some shopping and spent some hours at the marina, before we had to leave Poland at 16pm. Again 19 hours by bus, but this time without changing the bus.
