[FANACC] Beast In Madrid [Part 1]
And it’s finally here!! After almost 2 weeks I have finally found the time to write this, I know a lot of you were asking for it, especially since I have been giving little details on Twitter for the last days and I gave you a hint with the last Imma crazy B2uty post. But now, I’m really going to tell you how it was, I don’t think I will be able to express everything, they were 3 intense days full of stress, bipolarity, nerves and, overall, love towards a Korean boyband that have showed that they are as perfect as person as they are as artists. After these 3 intense days I can say I have become a 1-fandom person, I still love SNSD, I still love Block B, I still like a lot of different Korean groups, but I’m sorry to say that only a group has my entire heart and soul and after enjoying their company off-camera I gotta say that they have my loyalty forever, no matter what.
But enough rambling XD I bet you all are excited to read what I have to say. I have to warn you about the length of this, I have just started and you all know how much I can ramble, just see my comments for Himawarixxsandz xD, so to tell you everything, or almost everything, that happened I will probably have to split this in 2 parts, let’s see how long this part goes.
As some of you know, I had been working on Beast’s visit to Spain a long time before the actual announcement, my position as Cube Ent. Spain admin gave me the power of knowledge way before no-one know of this. After the message in Soompi appear around mid-August we contacted the Korean Culture Centre and they confirmed us the information, but it was pretty confidential so we started to work in the shadows, we started to organize the fan events, our own staff started to organize themselves, etc. The stress level started to arise when MBC contacted Beast Spain directly to work together in some events, some events that ended up being nothing like what they told us at first but that gave the hardworking staff a reward after half a month of not sleeping and working, daily meetings, new projects that keep appearing and more Korean calls that made me become almost crazy (2 days before the event they called me 17 times…and I was in the middle of my exams….which meant even more stress) But after all the work we saw ourselves being rewarded with the best 3 days of our lives.
Little by little the day arrived and at 9 the whole staff was ready to go to the event in Méndez Álvaro, the bus station near the park. We were around 20 people, 6 Korean and the rest was Spanish, and we walked happily towards the auditorium where the event was going to be held. The first problem arose when we arrived there, only 2 persons in the whole staff could speak Spanish, apart from my Korean friends and a Spanish girl who had just come back from Korea I was the only one who could understand the orders more or less…And my Korean knowledge is pretty limited. But with patience we started to understand what we were supposed to do, I knew beforehand but didn’t tell my staff since I wasn’t sure of anything anymore xD. We were going to ride the MBC bus towards the airport, where we would pick up Beast and then ride back to the park. Only a few caught the hint: we were going to PICK UP Beast, meaning we were going to ride the bus with them. The staff from Beast Spain were the ones who caught the hint quickly enough and the half-an-hour-long ride towards Barajas was the most exciting thing ever. I keep comparing it with the nervousness from the day before Epiphany (Spanish Santa it’s on Jan. 6th instead of Dec. 25th). While we were in the bus 6 of us were picked to “impersonate” Beast because they were going to shoot them in the bus so they needed to know where to seat the kids, it was exciting imagining you are Beast…but it was more exciting to know that they were going to seat in the place you were at the moment. After a while we arrived to the airport and another problem came. Beast Spain told the fans to gather at 10:30 in the airport entrance for the welcoming committee, but the MBC decided they wanted to go there at 10:30, which meant we arrived there half an hour later. Since the Spanish fandom is not THAT big, we usually know each other so I had some of my friends calling me nervously about where we were, if the flight time was right and so on and so forth. When we arrived we called the fans to tell them they should come to the T1, since we hadn’t told anyone where they were going to arrive, and the panic made its appearance. Everyone started to run and it took me some good 15 minutes to calm everyone, my friend told me there was at least 4 flights still in the security control and their flight from Istanbul was at least 1 hour delayed. MBC took this time to gather the staff and organize us, while we were organizing the fans.
The airport security was not warned of the event so no-one expected around 200 fans there waiting impatiently for Beast to arrive. We tried to organize them the best way we could, counting with all the “normal” people waiting for their relatives, and you may not know Spanish people but we are pretty picky and we love to complain…so we had to suffer a lot of “hate” coming from the people just waiting there. After organizing the fans in groups it was our turn to organize ourselves. The plan was as following: our staff should make a security circle, inside that circle there would be the cameramen and after them Beast. But they didn’t count with the fans and the tiny size of the staff. We are lions, we are Spanish, we protected them as animals but the cameramen didn’t fit in the picture xD Thankfully they realized soon enough that and they let us do our assigned job. We were ready, hand in hand, just waiting….and then the history became real and everyone started to scream and yelled “Beast is the Best”, they were here, the moment we had been expecting, all the nerves and the stress long gone and only expectation filled our faces. In no time, and after seeing Joonkun going the wrong way -.-‘, Doojoon made his appearance…way more beautiful than expected, his face is so thin and he’s so tall, I freaked out when I saw him wearing a wool beanie, it was around 30 degrees outside xD, after him it was Dongwoon, even taller but with a beautiful smile on his face, but then….Then I lost my focus, the most beautiful man over Earth appear in front of me…and stood there for quite a while, I forgot how Byunggwan was pushing me against the doors, I forgot about the fans pushing me against him, I forgot about my cap that should cover my face cause I was not supposed to appear on tv just yet…I forgot everything and I only stared at him while trying to apologize for everything. Jang Hyunseung was in front of me, as beautiful or even more if that was possible, wearing glasses [everyone knows I have a thing for glasses] and so so so serious, deadly serious, probably due to the tiredness. In no time I was pushed again and I found myself in front of a doll, the most pretty and cute doll ever, with a big smile Yoseob kept walking, almost jumping, while he was looking at the fans screaming his name and yearning for a simple touch. In the middle of the way, Dongwoon decided he wanted to enjoy the sight, causing me to crash against him…once again ¬¬ But after the most tense 5 minutes ever we were safe after the gates.
Beast stopped there to greet fans from behind the gates and I could only hear Kikwang saying excitedly “Maldo Andwe” [Impossible]. They were really excited and there was no way they were believing their eyes, they were in a country far away, known for calling every Asian person Chinese and for being a fan of what we call the “Macho Ibérico” [Iberian Man], and there was a lot of fans knowing their names [sort of], calling for them and suffering pain for them [probably we suffered more than the fans but oh well…xD]
Once we were inside the private zone we gathered to see if we were all there but some of my staff, along with the cordis, were still outside so you can see me running in front of Beast…again xD When I was told that my friend Maria was still out I ran to catch her and when we turned around Beast, along with Moisés, were already going to the bus so we freaked out thinking that they were going to be left behind. We ran towards the buses, mistook our own bus and once we reached the right one Moises told us to go up by the back door…Imagine that you turn around running because you think you are late….and comes face to face with Yang Yoseob…yeah, that’s exactly what happened to us. We heard Moisés telling us to go to the front door once again and once we were up we saw that all my staff was still where I left them before running to catch María xD So finally we were in the bus, with Beast…yeah, we were 2 meters away from them but we couldn’t scream, fangirl or anything for 2 reasons: A) We were staff, we were told right the moment we arrived that weren’t fans anymore and that meant not fangirling, B) They were recording, which meant no sound could be heard from us. So we used the time we had before going back to the park, since we started to do a “tour” around Madrid to give them time to record everything they had to, to finish our candy bags and organize our plans, while we, of course, peaked at them being…well…being Beast. They were so tired and exhausted but they said some Spanish words and enjoyed their time in the bus.
Once we arrived their hotel they went inside, leaving us behind T^T, not without a wave from Dongwoon that made us fangirl for the first time. We were left in the bus alone and it was the time for the screams and the fuck my lives and the fangirling, but only for a sec since the camera staff was coming with us to the park in the bus again. After the initial shock I started to feel way more relaxed, like I was being doing that for my whole life, I didn’t even seated anymore and I was talking with the staff in Korean about Spanish snacks and my B2uty t-shirt xD That B2uty t-shirt gave me another precious moment in the airport when Doojoon stopped, pointed at it and asked me if I was a b2uty xDDD Of course and I answered yes, it didn’t matter that I was working for them, my heart kept beating like a b2uty. After a while we had another “fangirl” moment in the bus when the director of photography found a white iphone…He asked us if it was from any of us and my reply was immediate: It’s Dongwoon’s. They looked at me weirdly, like saying why in the hell you know that? But I looked at them seriously and explained how Dongwoon broke his phone some months ago before going to Japan and bought that white Iphone there. They laughed, or more like ROFL, at me for me such a B2uty xD That was the moment when they started to notice that I was not normal at all. If you have heard a rumor about Dongwoon losing his phone in Spain you should know that it comes from “me” and the misunderstanding of this information. Just a note here, dedicated to our gorgeous maknae: IDOLS SHOULD LOCK THEIR PHONES, DONGWOON, AND IF YOU DON’T LOCK IT AT LEAST DON’T LET IT WITH AROUND 20 SPANISH GIRLS IN A BUS. We could have easily said it was ours, I could have said “oh, I left it behind when you were shooting us”, thankfully I was the nicest I can be and told them it was Dongwoon’s but…how many Kiwoon fancams may I have lose for being nice? No-one will ever know xD
So after a funny bus ride back to the park we got there and it was time for lunch. They gave us a full bento with Kimbap, Rice, Kimchi…a really full meal I wasn’t able to finish. But Beast was not arriving yet. After lunch it was our time to go back to work, which meant carrying lunch boxes for Beast and their staff to the bus and waiting for them to make their appearance. We were told to wait in the road that gave access to the venue, Beast was going to arrive there with a car and we only had to escort them to the tent. But once we were waiting and after 15 minutes, Beast Spain’s admin and I decided to go down and see if the bus was arriving or not. We wait there for a couple of seconds and when we were going back we heard the bus arriving and Beast getting out…As precious as always, if not more. Dongwoon was so focused in a Spanish text book, Doojoon greeted us politely [I’m ashamed T^T I didn’t deserve all the politeness coming from our namchindol], I told Junhyung thank you and he nodded [probably the bigger response I was going to get from the 4D infected rapper] and they walked towards the car while we went back to our security circle, ready to escort them as the good staff we were.
But enough rambling XD I bet you all are excited to read what I have to say. I have to warn you about the length of this, I have just started and you all know how much I can ramble, just see my comments for Himawarixxsandz xD, so to tell you everything, or almost everything, that happened I will probably have to split this in 2 parts, let’s see how long this part goes.
As some of you know, I had been working on Beast’s visit to Spain a long time before the actual announcement, my position as Cube Ent. Spain admin gave me the power of knowledge way before no-one know of this. After the message in Soompi appear around mid-August we contacted the Korean Culture Centre and they confirmed us the information, but it was pretty confidential so we started to work in the shadows, we started to organize the fan events, our own staff started to organize themselves, etc. The stress level started to arise when MBC contacted Beast Spain directly to work together in some events, some events that ended up being nothing like what they told us at first but that gave the hardworking staff a reward after half a month of not sleeping and working, daily meetings, new projects that keep appearing and more Korean calls that made me become almost crazy (2 days before the event they called me 17 times…and I was in the middle of my exams….which meant even more stress) But after all the work we saw ourselves being rewarded with the best 3 days of our lives.
Little by little the day arrived and at 9 the whole staff was ready to go to the event in Méndez Álvaro, the bus station near the park. We were around 20 people, 6 Korean and the rest was Spanish, and we walked happily towards the auditorium where the event was going to be held. The first problem arose when we arrived there, only 2 persons in the whole staff could speak Spanish, apart from my Korean friends and a Spanish girl who had just come back from Korea I was the only one who could understand the orders more or less…And my Korean knowledge is pretty limited. But with patience we started to understand what we were supposed to do, I knew beforehand but didn’t tell my staff since I wasn’t sure of anything anymore xD. We were going to ride the MBC bus towards the airport, where we would pick up Beast and then ride back to the park. Only a few caught the hint: we were going to PICK UP Beast, meaning we were going to ride the bus with them. The staff from Beast Spain were the ones who caught the hint quickly enough and the half-an-hour-long ride towards Barajas was the most exciting thing ever. I keep comparing it with the nervousness from the day before Epiphany (Spanish Santa it’s on Jan. 6th instead of Dec. 25th). While we were in the bus 6 of us were picked to “impersonate” Beast because they were going to shoot them in the bus so they needed to know where to seat the kids, it was exciting imagining you are Beast…but it was more exciting to know that they were going to seat in the place you were at the moment. After a while we arrived to the airport and another problem came. Beast Spain told the fans to gather at 10:30 in the airport entrance for the welcoming committee, but the MBC decided they wanted to go there at 10:30, which meant we arrived there half an hour later. Since the Spanish fandom is not THAT big, we usually know each other so I had some of my friends calling me nervously about where we were, if the flight time was right and so on and so forth. When we arrived we called the fans to tell them they should come to the T1, since we hadn’t told anyone where they were going to arrive, and the panic made its appearance. Everyone started to run and it took me some good 15 minutes to calm everyone, my friend told me there was at least 4 flights still in the security control and their flight from Istanbul was at least 1 hour delayed. MBC took this time to gather the staff and organize us, while we were organizing the fans.
The airport security was not warned of the event so no-one expected around 200 fans there waiting impatiently for Beast to arrive. We tried to organize them the best way we could, counting with all the “normal” people waiting for their relatives, and you may not know Spanish people but we are pretty picky and we love to complain…so we had to suffer a lot of “hate” coming from the people just waiting there. After organizing the fans in groups it was our turn to organize ourselves. The plan was as following: our staff should make a security circle, inside that circle there would be the cameramen and after them Beast. But they didn’t count with the fans and the tiny size of the staff. We are lions, we are Spanish, we protected them as animals but the cameramen didn’t fit in the picture xD Thankfully they realized soon enough that and they let us do our assigned job. We were ready, hand in hand, just waiting….and then the history became real and everyone started to scream and yelled “Beast is the Best”, they were here, the moment we had been expecting, all the nerves and the stress long gone and only expectation filled our faces. In no time, and after seeing Joonkun going the wrong way -.-‘, Doojoon made his appearance…way more beautiful than expected, his face is so thin and he’s so tall, I freaked out when I saw him wearing a wool beanie, it was around 30 degrees outside xD, after him it was Dongwoon, even taller but with a beautiful smile on his face, but then….Then I lost my focus, the most beautiful man over Earth appear in front of me…and stood there for quite a while, I forgot how Byunggwan was pushing me against the doors, I forgot about the fans pushing me against him, I forgot about my cap that should cover my face cause I was not supposed to appear on tv just yet…I forgot everything and I only stared at him while trying to apologize for everything. Jang Hyunseung was in front of me, as beautiful or even more if that was possible, wearing glasses [everyone knows I have a thing for glasses] and so so so serious, deadly serious, probably due to the tiredness. In no time I was pushed again and I found myself in front of a doll, the most pretty and cute doll ever, with a big smile Yoseob kept walking, almost jumping, while he was looking at the fans screaming his name and yearning for a simple touch. In the middle of the way, Dongwoon decided he wanted to enjoy the sight, causing me to crash against him…once again ¬¬ But after the most tense 5 minutes ever we were safe after the gates.
Beast stopped there to greet fans from behind the gates and I could only hear Kikwang saying excitedly “Maldo Andwe” [Impossible]. They were really excited and there was no way they were believing their eyes, they were in a country far away, known for calling every Asian person Chinese and for being a fan of what we call the “Macho Ibérico” [Iberian Man], and there was a lot of fans knowing their names [sort of], calling for them and suffering pain for them [probably we suffered more than the fans but oh well…xD]
Once we were inside the private zone we gathered to see if we were all there but some of my staff, along with the cordis, were still outside so you can see me running in front of Beast…again xD When I was told that my friend Maria was still out I ran to catch her and when we turned around Beast, along with Moisés, were already going to the bus so we freaked out thinking that they were going to be left behind. We ran towards the buses, mistook our own bus and once we reached the right one Moises told us to go up by the back door…Imagine that you turn around running because you think you are late….and comes face to face with Yang Yoseob…yeah, that’s exactly what happened to us. We heard Moisés telling us to go to the front door once again and once we were up we saw that all my staff was still where I left them before running to catch María xD So finally we were in the bus, with Beast…yeah, we were 2 meters away from them but we couldn’t scream, fangirl or anything for 2 reasons: A) We were staff, we were told right the moment we arrived that weren’t fans anymore and that meant not fangirling, B) They were recording, which meant no sound could be heard from us. So we used the time we had before going back to the park, since we started to do a “tour” around Madrid to give them time to record everything they had to, to finish our candy bags and organize our plans, while we, of course, peaked at them being…well…being Beast. They were so tired and exhausted but they said some Spanish words and enjoyed their time in the bus.
Once we arrived their hotel they went inside, leaving us behind T^T, not without a wave from Dongwoon that made us fangirl for the first time. We were left in the bus alone and it was the time for the screams and the fuck my lives and the fangirling, but only for a sec since the camera staff was coming with us to the park in the bus again. After the initial shock I started to feel way more relaxed, like I was being doing that for my whole life, I didn’t even seated anymore and I was talking with the staff in Korean about Spanish snacks and my B2uty t-shirt xD That B2uty t-shirt gave me another precious moment in the airport when Doojoon stopped, pointed at it and asked me if I was a b2uty xDDD Of course and I answered yes, it didn’t matter that I was working for them, my heart kept beating like a b2uty. After a while we had another “fangirl” moment in the bus when the director of photography found a white iphone…He asked us if it was from any of us and my reply was immediate: It’s Dongwoon’s. They looked at me weirdly, like saying why in the hell you know that? But I looked at them seriously and explained how Dongwoon broke his phone some months ago before going to Japan and bought that white Iphone there. They laughed, or more like ROFL, at me for me such a B2uty xD That was the moment when they started to notice that I was not normal at all. If you have heard a rumor about Dongwoon losing his phone in Spain you should know that it comes from “me” and the misunderstanding of this information. Just a note here, dedicated to our gorgeous maknae: IDOLS SHOULD LOCK THEIR PHONES, DONGWOON, AND IF YOU DON’T LOCK IT AT LEAST DON’T LET IT WITH AROUND 20 SPANISH GIRLS IN A BUS. We could have easily said it was ours, I could have said “oh, I left it behind when you were shooting us”, thankfully I was the nicest I can be and told them it was Dongwoon’s but…how many Kiwoon fancams may I have lose for being nice? No-one will ever know xD
So after a funny bus ride back to the park we got there and it was time for lunch. They gave us a full bento with Kimbap, Rice, Kimchi…a really full meal I wasn’t able to finish. But Beast was not arriving yet. After lunch it was our time to go back to work, which meant carrying lunch boxes for Beast and their staff to the bus and waiting for them to make their appearance. We were told to wait in the road that gave access to the venue, Beast was going to arrive there with a car and we only had to escort them to the tent. But once we were waiting and after 15 minutes, Beast Spain’s admin and I decided to go down and see if the bus was arriving or not. We wait there for a couple of seconds and when we were going back we heard the bus arriving and Beast getting out…As precious as always, if not more. Dongwoon was so focused in a Spanish text book, Doojoon greeted us politely [I’m ashamed T^T I didn’t deserve all the politeness coming from our namchindol], I told Junhyung thank you and he nodded [probably the bigger response I was going to get from the 4D infected rapper] and they walked towards the car while we went back to our security circle, ready to escort them as the good staff we were.