#JoinUs! ESC 2014 3/3

 Olen palannut Tanskan-matkaltani ja reissu odotti kyllä odotukseni täysin. Kööpenhaminassa olen ollut ennenkin, mutta vain kauttakulkumatkalla kun lähdimme seikkailemaan autolla Tanskan maaseudulle. Mutta tosiaan, tällä kertaa retki suuntautui maailman suurimpaan musiikkikilpailuun, eli Euroviisuihin, jollei joku sitä nyt ole vielä onnistunut huomaamaan. Isä päätti palkita hyvän koulumenestykseni matkalla, koska en tosiaan aiemmin olekaan päässyt katsomaan viisuja ihan paikan päälle. Mahtavinta oli nähdä kaikki se, joka telkkarissa jää piiloon. Kaikki esivalmistelut, yleisön viihdytykset, lavalla esitystenkin aikaan juoksevat ninjalaumat ja mahtava meininki! Monet laulut kuulostivat livenä tuhannesti paremmilta, etenkin Venäjän tytöt kuulostivat yllättävän hyviltä. Tässä siis matkan kuvasatoa, koitin ottaa sellaisia "behind the scenes" -kuvia viisuhumusta, koska itse Euroviisut ja esiintyjät voi kurkata Areenasta mikäli niitä haluaa katsella. Kaikki kuvatekstit ovat tuollaista junttienglantia, koska postaus näyttää siten omaan silmääni siistimältä kuin kaksi allekkaista tarinanpätkää.

I'm back from Denmark. Dad wanted to reward my good grades and so we took a flight to Copenhagen. I've been there earlier but that time we only visited the countryside. This time my destination was worlds greatest music contest! It was so awesome to see everything behind the cameras e.g. all the preparations, black ninjas all over the stage even during performances, karaoke for audience before the actual show and amazing spirit! Many songs were better in real life, Russia's song for example was actually kinda good. So here are some of the photos I took. Mostly "behind the scenes" stuff because if you want to see Eurovision itself you could just watch it online.

"Fan mile" filled with banners, little food stands and stuff

For some reason this is one of my favorite photos from the trip

Tom of Finland spotted!

Malmö?

#happywall

Denmark - Where even power outlets are smiling

It was SO CLOUDY nearly all the time so I was extremely happy to see a glimpse of blue

Visited Kastrup. Warning, boring "pretty" photos ahead!

Embassy of Finland

That grass kinda reminds me of Teletubby land

B&W halls

I've been in Copenhagen earlier, but never  bothered visiting The Little Mermaid statue

Well at least I wasn't alone

Fancy-pancy socks

Tivoli

Eurovision village

Where can I get these, please

MEP-elections were coming, as you can tell

They were showing semi-finals (& the grand final as well) on screen

Only in Denmark

 If you think I'm always wearing fancy outfits, you are terribly wrong. On Friday I was wearing brown maxi-skirt with brown coat and rocking horse shoes, so exciting! Nevertheless, some people still asked if they could take a photo with me D: Saturday was loli-day feat my romper. Random Irish guy told me that if I ever participated in ESC I would make it to the final no matter what I sang because my legs are so awesome. I totally agree.

Random fishy face

I bought myself a Pascal from Disney store ♥

Hot dogs or hot legs?

SOON

There were DOZENS of karaoke-stands, filled with Eurovision hits of course.

There were bars, sandwiches, live music and stuff behind the entrance gates

It was HUGE

People were already shouting for Conchita before we were even inside (dat face in the corner tho)

I got beer spilled (or poured) on me at least seven times, but thanks to it I met so many amazing people there! These lovely girls were from Austria (obv) and I also chatted up with some nice Frenchmen, Brits and extremely good-looking Norwegians. Unfortunately, I didn't ask anyone's name. Sigh u_u

Mm yeah wipe it

One of the staff members had a birthday and we sang to him ^^

Some people in the crowd had confetti cannons for the hosts' entrance thingy

WHAT TEAM

Second row, bitches! In front of me were only these ~160 cm Spaniards so no one was blocking my view. I had ticket for floor one, but no idea where it was. Nobody was checking tickets anyway so I just joined the Fan zone

Work in progress... 

Azerbaijan, Norway, Armenia, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Russia (look how tiny they are!)

I wasn't able to hear anything what the hosts were saying but luckily there were "subtitles" lel

Yay Nordic nails

I don't know whether this was shown on TV, but the audience was waving rainbow flags & hooting during the WHOLE Russian perform. I felt so sorry for the twins it almost made me cry. People need to understand that Putin's opinion =/= Russians' opinion. These sweet girls have done nothing bad to anyone and oh my gosh I'm so angry but hopefully you get my point.

Tolmachevy Sisters. They were so cute! ♥

Conchita

My flaggy flag

First I was little worried...

I am more than pleased by the results, at least the top three. I'm so glad the jury enjoyed Conchita as well. Netherlands did way better than I thought it would and our placement wasn't bad either!

B&W halls exploded while Conchita's reprise 

Random selca after the show. AND IT WAS SO AWESOME! I still need to watch it online and try to spot myself.

Home sweet home, back to gray and depressing Finland.

In addition to the Swedish flag I was wearing, I managed to find Icelandic & Austrian flags.

Italy's Emma

Olisin halunnut jäädä pidemmäksikin aikaa toki, mutta koeviikko kutsui. Tänään korkkasin sen kiinalla, jonka suoritin vartissa. Liian helpot kokeet on aina karmivia! Sunnuntaina on Hanami Roihuvuoressa, ja tällä hetkellä opiskelun lomassa yritän saada asuni sinne valmiiksi. Tarkoitus olisi mennä shironuri-loleissa, saas nähä miten käy. Peruukki ei vielä ole tullut ja sen puolesta pelottaa. Koitan saada sieltäkin jotain materiaalia räpsittyä. Toivottavasti keli vähän paranisi viikonloppuun mennessä! ^^

Of course I would've liked to stay there a little bit longer, but school was calling. Today I had Chinese test and somehow I managed to finish it in 15 minutes (we had two hours). On Sunday I will go to Hanami and currently I'm trying to finish my shironuri-lolita outfit. Wig still on its way but I've got my fingers crossed! I just hope the weather will get better by weekend ^^