So, like many other Finnish fans, I met Westlife at Jyrki, a Finnish TV show on 25th August! Here's my story of what happened that day.

I had travelled the 500 km, that is five hours, long way from Pietarsaari to Helsinki already the day before and I had spent a long and sleepless night at my sister's apartment... So on Wednesday morning I was already in Helsinki - you could almost feel that Westlife was coming to Finland!
I had promised to meet my e-pal Hanna and her friend Reeta at the railway station 10.45. I came there a little late, but happily it's never difficult to recognise a Westlife fan. ; )
Since none of us had a clue of what Westlife was going to do that day, we camped outside the studio of Jyrki already at 11 - despite all the people who stared at us. Well, at least we were the first fans there, and the fans that had spent the most time waiting for Westlife!
About an hour later we started feeling bored, absolutely nothing happened and sitting on pavement just is not so nice! Especially not when you're so nervous that you have extra energy!
We had just packed our bags to go and take a look at a couple of hotels in the vicinity, when the fourth Westlife fan arrived. After a while of pondering we decided to ask the people at Jyrki what they knew about Westlife's schedule in Finland. Not much, we were just told that Westlife will come to Jyrki at 3...
So, we left the studio and headed towards the best hotels in the vicinity! For a while we just walked around the hotels unsure about what to do. Until someone (I guess it was me) got the idea of finding out where the stairs behind the building would take us to. We noticed we were standing in the backyard of a luxury hotel staring at the windows! The building has several floors and tens of windows, so it'd be very difficult to find anyone like that, so we gave up the hope and moved to the front of the hotel again. Again I thought I got a good idea - this time about how to get into such a hotel with a backpack and without looking like a desperate fan. So we all four walked into the hotel to ask where the cable factory was (it was the only place we could think of right then!). While we were listening to the answer, we were all looking around when we tried to find out, if Westlife was staying in just that hotel...

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