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Josien met Westlife in Holland, his story
Topic Started: Dec 15 2006, 01:18 PM (91 Views)
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Josien’s Meet & Greet Story And Pictures - 15 December 2006


"To see pictures please click onto Villy's site using link at bottom of article, thank you so much Villy and Josien...So funny story, Cant wait till i meet them ""


Josien from Holland won a Meet & Greet competition and met the lads along with other Westlife fans. She wrote a report and got some lovely pictures. Thank you for sharing them with us Josien!


Meet & Greet Report:

On Monday morning they were announcing who had won the meet and greet… I was looking around the site the entire morning at work. When suddenly this box pops up on my screen from my gmail saying like winner meet & greet with Westlife and then the first sentence was take a deep breath… I felt my heart speeding up, my face flushing and I just didn’t dare to open my mail. I was terrified that it might be a joke or that I was dreaming… I finally got the courage to open my gmail account and I read the next line… Let it all sink... and after that was the line you are one of the two winners for the Westlife meet and greet. I was at work so I couldn’t really scream, but my heart started pounding faster and faster, I was radiating heat and as if it couldn’t get any worse I started shaking... I wanted to bounce of the walls but well my boss was sitting about six feet from me. So I took a deep breath and read the mail again... They needed my name and date of birth so I send it back… The next mail I got told me that I would get more information later…

The next day I got another mail stating the time and place to be... quarter past one at the Byenkorf in Amsterdam. At that point I was a bit numb going on with my daily things at work and at home. Not really believing it to be honest. At night I was working on the gift I would be giving the lads. The idea was to make a portrait for all of them in black and white. Nicky’s was horrible, but I didn’t have time to make a new one so he just had to be happy with it.

Finally it was the day that I would be meeting them. Taking a quick shower and spending half an hour on my hair… Gift-wrapping the presents, writing the Christmas cards… I was ready. I drove to the train station and boarded the train. I only had two minutes to catch my other train in Eindhoven… I made it and I was on my way to Amsterdam… two hours later from the time I left I stepped out of the train. Now I had to wait for a friend. It didn’t take me long. I told her that Nicky was having twins and she wouldn’t believe me at first… I did say it rather casually.

We set off to do some shopping. We had to find something for Nicky and the twins. In the end we decided to stick with the fluffy wooden shoes we had given Shane in April for Nicole… We quickly grabbed some markers as well and set to wait for the time we were to meet the rest.

Quarter past one arrived soon and we met up with the two girls form vrouw.nl. They told us that we had to wait for the other two cause they had managed to get lost. Me and Jeltje we still don’t get that cause it’s only one road to the byenkorf from the train station. In the end they did arrive and we started to do some filming, showing things that were in our bags for the lads and all that…

After that they told us that the meet and greet would be at the hotel they were staying. Me and Jeltje showed the way cause we had been there before and the others hadn’t. We were met with about fifteen fans who had been waiting there all morning… I know it can get quite cold outside so I had a little chat with them… They wished us luck and had all these things they wanted to know. I forgot most of them… sorry girls…

We were waiting outside cause they wouldn’t let us in at first and they only did after showing our ID and the mail we had gotten. I waved at the girls and waved the picture we had made two years ago in Walibi World while wearing our Dutchies love Westlife shirt… We had to wait a bit longer in the lobby of the hotel… Are those seats comfy or what… We were told that we looked rather calm but when I showed them my hand and how much it shaked they realized it was just nerves.

Finally we were guided upstairs and the carpet was so soft it made you think you were walking on clouds and Jeltje confessed to me that it would be so easy to fall down and I just nodded. We were let in this room were lunch was set out and it smelled great... hehe… We sat ourselves in the corner with a good view on the door. We got champagne but we all forgot about it so no-one touched it (the lads drank theirs though)… I could hear the lads outside the door even before they went in… Kian or Shane was first don’t really remember who was first but I was like OMG it’s real... the next one that came just yelled “Hi” and the ice was broken... Mark followed and after him Nicky… They introduced themselves Shane even asked how I was doing and I was like nervous... Mark asked the same and I went like yeah I’m nervous and he went “You don’t need to be”... Nicky just said “You alright”…

So Shane asked all of us what song we liked best on the album and Mark was sitting between us so Shane asked him too and he goes “Yeah Total Eclipse” and Shane looked at Jeltje and goes “What about you?” and she answered in Dutch with yes that one... I looked at Shane and told him “She said yes that one”... Shane looks at her and goes “She doesn’t speak English”. I laughed and told him that yes she does speak English.

I had put the gifts on the table so when they were all finally seated… *Shane next to me* he started picking at the gifts going like “Is that for me?”... I went like “No let me see” and handed each their painting. Shane really liked his said it resembled him. And Nicky was like “Who’s this? Is it upside down?” he was mostly joking ‘cause when I said if you don’t like then give it back he went like no… Mark said his looked like Brian but he laughed while saying that… I also gave them cards and when Nicky read the text I wrote on his (when your child is born you realize that the life you had was worthless) he was looked at me and was like “yeah...” and nodded... I think he got the meaning. Kian went to Shane... “You read the card first before you open the gift” and Mark was like “It’s an early Christmas”.

Shane couldn’t read my name on the card so he asked me what my name was and I was like Josien and he goes “Ooohh I thought that was a V???” I said it reminded me of the Taxi driver in Sligo… So he goes all excited and asked me if I’d been to Sligo… yeah, I answered, in April.

I handed Kian the card form Samantha who gave it to me outside and I said from one of the fans outside and he went “Yeah I know them”... after that I asked Mark about a cookie jar he had gotten yesterday from Kim... He said he had seen it but hadn’t taken anything out of it yet...

Then they asked us for a good joke and I was like yeah but I have to translate it which was impossible so Shane goes “No good English or Irish jokes?” and I go no don’t know any and the interviewer from vrouw.nl asked him if he knew any… he said yes but that Nicky knows the best... In the end it was Kian who was telling a joke but I didn’t quite catch it.

So the gift for Nicky’s twins was next and Shane goes “Yeah the wooden shoes...” He recognized them and we went like “Yeah we gave you some for Nicole last year” *we gave it to his dad and he gave it to Shane* and Shane goes “Yeah I remember them my dad gave them to me”... We were happy. I went to Nicky like “Yeah we needed two cause you’re having twins”… He radiated from happiness… So Nicky also got this angel from Jeltje and he goes “This looks more like me than this painting” *I have a feeling he was jealous of the other ones* and Shane goes like “Yeah but they show lots of time and effort”... *made my day he did*

Suddenly Nicky goes like yeah she *points at other girl* said she would give us a surprise and she had given them a can which had this label with surprise on it... so Nicky tried to get the lid of… which didn’t work apparently. I went you need a can-opener… So Kian decided to give it a try... they gave up soon afterwards.

They were all talking separately and I needed their attention so I went like “EVERYBODY”… and Kian went like everybody… so I held up the picture from us in the shirts and told them that it was made the day Mark came out he was gay.. *oh the embarrassment* and asked them if they wouldn’t mind signing my shirt… which they all did. Shane loved the shirt and really looked at and he even read what was on it *dutchies love Westlife*. It was a great idea to bring it with me. Nicky asked me if I wanted Kian to do Brian’s autograph (cause he can apparently) and I was like “No I already met him” and Shane was like, “Today?” and I looked at him and said “No two years ago”. and Jeltje had hers with her too and so they signed that one… and Nicky goes to Kian “there is another one” and Kian answered with “yeah when you do one you’ve got to do them all or else they get mad”…And I went “no there are eleven of them but we only brought two”.. When Mark signed my shirt he went like “okay so this is the day I came out”…

Mark had gotten bonbons and he picked one out and Shane goes “Are they any good?” and he goes “Yeah they are, take one”… So he hands the box to Shane and Shane turns to Kian and goes “What do you want brown or white?” and Kian goes “Well I have to see them before I eat them”… So Shane takes one and takes a bite..

I asked them when they were coming back to Holland for the tour and Nicky went like “We are here” and than he realized I said the tour and he was like “Well we’ll be back in 200…….. 8” right... I started going like that’s two years... Shane went “Noo that’s one year and three months”. After that they started asking our favourite song from the ratpack album and I managed to blurt out Mack The Knife… Shane and Kian started laughing and Shane even repeated it which had the rest in stitches.

Suddenly Mark started throwing bits of the wrapping paper at Shane and I asked him if he liked throwing things at Shane and he goes “Yeah Shane likes that… why don’t you throw something?” and Jeltje picks up the marker and throws it at Shane and he just continues and Mark is sniggering next to Jeltje… So he looks at me and goes “You throw something” so I did and he laughs even louder and we laugh with him…

Suddenly Shane picks this disgusting bonbon out of the package and goes like “This doesn’t look so nice” and the woman from vrouw.nl goes “Maybe you should eat it to put it out of it’s misery”. Shane goes “Noooo I already tried it and it wasn’t any good”. It was the bonbon he had tried earlier he just had shoved it back in with the others.

So Dave and this woman come on and go times up but we wanted a picture and Dave was like yeah a group one so we all huddled together and the lads started singing Smile so I sang along... Dave took a blurry picture by the way…

Shane was standing next to me and I was like “I’m hot I’m radiating heat” and he and Nicky go “Yeah there is some ice over there”… So we had to say goodbye and Shane gives me a hug and a kiss on my cheek… and Mark hugged me and I asked if I could have a picture and he was like yeah… and that was my dream a picture with Mark... I quickly had to grab my stuff and I so hope I didn’t leave anything behind…

We filmed some more outside and they even shot some of the fans standing there.. We had to tell some stories but I was like completely blank all of a sudden... I had met Westlife…
And now about seven hours later I believe it’s all a dream… but I have a picture with Mark on my nightstand and a shirt with their autographs… how can it be a dream… I forgot to ask so many things and say so many things… It’s really weird how you can forget everything when you only have to reach next to you to touch one of the lads…

I probably forgot lots of things… but I’ll add them when I remember them…



Credit/Source: Josien/Villy
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