SAMI`S POINT OF VIEW FROM JUNE 12TH TO JUNE 17TH 2003
It was Thursday middle of the day, when I went to the plane, YAY it
was there....
I was on my way to Paris.....in Paris YAY my plane was there, and I
was on it!!!
Now I was getting nervous....thank god, I had a buddy next to me, who
also was going to MIRA so I could talk about going to see Roy!!!!!!...
After the longest 6 and a half hours we landed on Roy ground....
YAY I made it.....
We went to the meeting point, hoping to see the MIRA sign, but no,
Lindy was not there. So we went to reconfirm our flight and exchange
money...when we came back still no Lindy...
so we decided to have some coffee..(it was 1 am our time)
we both kept walking around looking for Lindy. When the guy at
information saw me there for over an hour, he asked what was wrong, I
explained I was here for the MIRA event....he then asked are you sure
your here for MIRA not for Roy Dupuis..? So I looked at him, thinking
how the he11 do you know that...and my response was Roy who??? He
laughed, he told me he had not seen any MIRA sign before we
came...and he asked if we had a name or a phone number, I gave him
the phone # of the hotel and he called ( we did not know if the
reception girl spoke English) when she did, I asked for some one from
MIRA but was told Lindy was on the way to the airport...
So we kept waiting around, 9pm I called again....and was told that
Lindy, got back to the hotel, could not get through cuz of traffic
and just walked out to get back to the airport...so we kept waiting,
going on our 6th coffee...at 11.30 we decided to go the hotel with a
cap.
When we arrived at the hotel and I checked in, the woman told me 6
people where looking for me, so I first went to dump my bag, I then
run into Lindy at the elevator, and run into my roomies, so that
where 3ppl who found me....I then went to KG`s party, there where
still some people there....and they where like what are you doing
here, weren't you suppose to get here tomorrow at 2 p.m. ..I was like
nope, just got in...told the whole story...then the phone went it was
Joyce I think, or at least another who was looking for me....
after talking to everyone, I went to my room and fell a sleep,
thinking about seeing Roy tomorrow..(very nice subject for a dream )
Friday I got up at 8 am(WTF) had breakfast and met more people, it is
so kewl to finally talk to people about Roy and they KNOW what you
are on about.
After breakfast we registered and got a kewl baggy with Intel and
MIRA stuff and the most beautiful pic of Roy as Ross from TLC2.
We just hang till 2.30 when rumour came that the race might be
cancelled cuz of rain( WHAT THE F#CK?????RAIN?????ON THE ONE DAY WE
SEE ROY???????????????)
After we al sat with bummed out faces we where told to meet at 3.30
for more Intel, when we got together, Joyce gave us then the news
that the race was prosponed till Sunday, and Roy could not attend
then..(bummmmeerr)
She said to get back at 5. We of course did, then she gave us the
bestest news ever....Roy might come to the hotel!!!!!( OHHH MMYYY
GOOOD!!!!!!)
The next 3 hrs we where in huge suspense of what to come, had dinner
and got ready....
A little before 8 we all gathered in one of the rooms, there were
round tables and we had to group in 8 people, and that when there
where 9 chairs at each table...Roy would sit at each table to talk to
us...(another OMG)
A little after 8 KG, who was sitting across from me at the table
looking at the door, nodded to me, and THERE HE STOOD!!! Wearing his
beret, black leather jacket black Levi's and black boots and a white
shirt......he was sooooo gorgeous....after we all got our breaths
back, we clapped and he smiled then clapping to us....
He went to the first table, and sat down talking to everyone, our
table was the second last one, he got there at around 1 am.....there
where 3 empty chairs (some of us weren't there yet) and he stood
asking where he could sit, we told he could sit were ever he wants....
(of course he can)
He shook everyone's hands(his hand feels good ) then he took Joyce's
camera and wanted to take a picture...at first it did not work, Joyce
fixed it (kewl Joyce) and he took a picture of Greeneyes, we all
thought he would just take a picture of her....but he then said to KG
your turn look that way now look at me ....KG went like WHY??
(because HE asked ) after he took our pictures, we talked about the
Rivers Foundation and his new projects. He told us that he is now
busy sailing and he wants to sail the Nile..... I also asked him
what his favourite project was to work on, and it is also BAHWC.
After 45 minutes, (which went by so fast) Pierre came by and we knew
Roy had to move on, so we asked him if he could still sign things,
and he said ..Yeah...so he signed my picture...and because the
background was kinda dark, he said I can't see it, I said don't worry
I'll be able to, I'll know it is there..
We also had our pics taken with him....and when I asked him, quickly
if the blood tear was his idea, he said yes, I then asked him if he
had a lot of input with the scenes, he said "if I had good ideas
yeah, if they where bad no"...kg, who walked by to get her pic taken,
made a remark of YOU have bad ideas?? he went like "yeah a few"
One of the girls had a flash that went 3 times, and Roy said "what
the he11 is that??" the girl who was taking the pic with him could
not speak English and thought the pic went bad, Roy noticed this and
said to take another, and let her know the pic was good...He is such
a sport....
After we all had our pics taken he went to the last table...
At 2.30 he got up to leave and went back to first table...he
said "where not done"
The first two tables had not have there pics taken with him, and he
was soo kewl to stay and have then made after..
How kewl is he???!!!!!!!!!!
He then left we all clapped again, and gasped/stunned and did not
believe what happened.....
Me and my roomies went to bed shortly after, and we just fell on the
bed....all in trance of the evening...
Saturday the topic of discussion was of course Roy and what he said
to everyone....
But there were actually a lot of other things we had to put our minds
too...
First there was MIRA, we went there, the car I was in was actually
late!!! We missed the lane and road to MIRA TWICE and we could not do
a U-turn for almost 1 kilometre I think...when we got there we
splitted into groups and where blindfolded and got to walk with one
of the dogs through and obstacle course.
We also saw the cute puppies in the nursery...omg they where soo
cute....
When we got back to the hotel, we had the darkness diner, I was at
the table with Lawrence(Roy`s driver of last year) and Ann His
fiancee and Simon(on of MIRA people) daughter.
After the salad, me and Ann went for a smoke, blindfolded we used
Laurence`s chain...and that was a blast, on the way out Ann had the
chain and directed me, we walked into a wall...some chairs, when we
made it outside we where able to find a couch and a can for the
ash...I was able to light my ciggie and to not put anything to fire.
On the way back in I used the chain and directed Ann, and of course
we got lost we again run into a wall and bumped into some chairs and
a table and almost sat down at the wrong table..... we then just kept
calling Lawrence and where able to find our table...
After we could all take folds off, Henry sang the most kewlest song.
We laughed our @sses of from the lyrics, one of the blind people
played the guitar.
After that we left for the movie, Seraphin was beautiful, it is just
a sad story....and it was very enlightening for some of us who saw it
at the premiere without subtitles(looking in KG direction)
I will not tell more about it, don't wanna spoil it for those who
haven't seen it...
When we got back we could see the LFN presentation again, which was
pretty kewl...the bloopers where hilarious...
again it was a pretty late night....when I actually got to bed...
Next day we had the auction....and the leather pants Roy wore on TLC2
went for 1500CAD...
Around 5 we all gathered to go the race, the race was sooo kewl, I
never saw anything like this...cars which can hardly move still
going....and that some of the sighted people who instructed actually
used there hand to tell where to go...
The car Roy was suppose to be in crashed into a gate
Lawrence came in second YAY
After the race we all went onto the tracks.. had pics taken and then
went to the bus, some of us went to the after race party but most of
us wanted an early night, I did too but it got late anyhow, there was
a Royette party and I went there, we saw all the Roy stuff shown
Saturday and the wrap wreels....and some interviews of Roy.
I left around 1.30 to pack and get ready had to meet down stairs at
7.30 (again WTF)to go to Montreal, for the River convention.
(anything for Roy)
When I went home, Monday afternoon some of my blonde moments appeared
but they shall remain unspoken.
Until we meet again. ( which is in 4 and a half months YAY)
Big thank you to every one I met in these wonderful 4 days… You are
all really the BEST OF THE BEST!!!!!
SAMI