151204/151207 SHINee in Praha fanaccount
I am posting this here for some consistency since my other fanaccounts are here too. Crossposting on tumblr and twitter, where I am actually active too :'))
Okay, so this is my attempt at fanaccount of the madness that have been the past five days. Seeing SHINee live in Prague has been my biggest wish since forever and I still don’t entirely believe it has happened. Although it was only a small gig, three songs, no more, I still feel like the happiest person ever. SHINee, my favoruite group, has been in MY city. They even spent few days here and they seemed to have some nice time here, although they’ve also worked a bit.
Anyway, as for the concert - me being me, the time leading up to it was really stressful for me. I already admitted I am the biggest trash because I can’t remember the last time I’ve tried this hard for anything. The concert was for free, all you had to do was send an email with your ID details to group organizing korean events here in Prague. While many people doubted because SHINee in Prague sounded just way too good to be true, I didn’t hesitate for a second when I saw the news because I thought that with SHINee, you just cannot hesitate to succeed. I was also really really lucky because on the crucial day when we were getting emails with links to reserving seats, I didn’t have to go to work so I literally sat at my comp all day, refreshing email so I could register asap. Like this, I was able to get seat in the first row, pretty much right in front of Jonghyun...
Due to the lack of information and some mishaps in organization (but hey! It was the first kpop concert in Prague ever so I don’t want to complain and also, it was to be expect since it was the first time. And besides, embassies from four countries worked together on making this happen so of course there was bound to be some difficult communication...also from the side of SHINee’s managers, to be fair), it was really stressful two weeks during which we‘ve managed to prepare some fan projects for our boys but other than that my life has practially stopped.
On Thursday we waited for them at the airport in group of about ten to twenty people. Sadly, after the whole ordeal with missing their flight from MAMA and all, SHINee themselves left the airport through VIP exit and all we managed to do was to give our presents to one guy from the staff. He promised he will give them to the managers, so we can only hope the boys got them.
151204 The Concert
On Friday when we got to the venue, I still didn’t know how far... or close exactly I would be sitting and I must say that seeing the venue for the first time was the best surprise... it was big just enough and the seats were actually really close to the stage and overall it was kinda intimate atmosphere... at least in the first rows huhuhu. I was sitting in Sector 2’s first row which contained only two seats plus a seat for security guy lmfao. I was lucky enough to sit next to a super nice girl who even switched places with me so I could be even closer to the stage. (Thank you so much, bb, if you ever read this! TOT/) .
To be honest, the whole time before SHINee appeared on stage I was thinking that I am not ready, that I could never be ready. And then, way too soon but not soon enough... they’ve appeared. They started with Lucifer and (unsuprisingly) they slayed me from the first tone to the last. I was so happy that they were singing live (over back track but still! I didn’t expect that :‘)) and they sounded wonderful. Also, it was just as if I was sitting right there on the stage with them, I could see them SO clearly (unlike yesterday at the airport T.T). I wasn’t looking anywhere behind me because I didn’t want to miss anything but I think I must have been one of the few people having lightstick, definitely there in the front. So as soon as SHINee came on stage, Minho noticed it and smiled at me and even half winked at me. He seemed really suprised to see the ligtstick and also very pleased. Since then, it only went downhill because everytime any one of them was in front of me, they kept staring at me and my lightstick... needless to say I died many times during that short time. Especially when it was Jonghyun’s turns, which it was very often since I was sitting more on the left side where he usually dances T.T Btw. as for the dances, I must say I didn’t manage to see enough lol because I just couldn’t look away from their faces ;~; Especially Minho’s smiley one....they all looked a little nervous at first but before the first two songs (Lucifer and Beautiful) ended, they visibly relaxed. They seemed really happy because the fans were singing along even to Beautiful which they maybe didn’t expect and overall I think they must have felt just how happy we all were to see them. They saw with their own eyes that there are many many eager fans in Europe who love them just as dearly as any other fans in the world. It was dream come true for so many people! SHINee kept smiling and did all these little dorky things in the choregraphy they don’t normally do or that i would notmally fail to notice if i wasn’t in the front but still, the performance rocked so much and the singing was so amazing. I am, of course, little sad that Onew couldn’t make it but ot4 really did their best to cover up for their leader.
Between the first two songs they had short introduction segment where Taem took us by surprise because he greeted us in Czech, saying „Dobrý den“ in such a cute voice hehe. After him the rest introduced themselves and then at some point Jonghyun told Key to tell us what he’s learned in Czech and like this we got some more Czech phrases from Key, with perfect accent and all. He said „jak se máš“ (how are you), „prosím, zaplatím“ (bill, please lolol) but him saying „miluju tě“ (i love you) was my absolute favourite. At the end f the talk segment they introduced Beautiful as a song that is maybe not so famous and Taem said something along the lines that it’s okay if we just enjoy it/just watch it and he wondered whether we would be able to sing along. And sing along we did. I already mentioned, how freaking surprised and happy they seemed when we actually joined them for singing and I just have this wonderful feeling that we, as fans didn’t fail them.
After the performances of other artists, way too soon, came the last song. SHINee were closing the event with View and here let me tell you that View is my favoruite song and I am so so so happy I had the chance to see it live. I seriously cannot tell how wonderful it was, seeing them perform it from such a close distance with all the eye-contacts. I really don’t know how I’ve survived it. Also, I think I don’t even have to explain you why I didn’t take any pics or proper fancam. Besides sitting next to a security guy, I also didn’t want to miss a single nano-second by dealing with phone or anything. I was just staring at my favourite group doing their best on stage and I was barely breathing. They are so unspeakably beauitful. Jonghyun is an amazing ball of energy on stage, I honestly don’t even know where it comes from. Also, Kibum is so charismatic, I remember this from the SMTown in Paris in 2011 and he got even better over the time. He’s so striking in person!
Anyway, after View, SHINee remained on stage while all the other artists gathered and then the SK president had her speech. It was really long and I finally calmed down enough to take at least some fancam... sneakily though because of the security guy next to me. I also kept my lightstick on and kept playing with it because the speech was actually quite boring and idek I just tried to get some more eye-contact form SHINee...which wasn’t all that hard, considered they were standing right in front of me and kept stealing glances around everyone gathered in the front. They looked kind of bored and awkward during the speech but tbh so did everyone else because of the length of the speech and the fact that we all stood up for it and never sat down again. At one particular moment, I just waved the lightstick lightly and to my horror Jjong looked at me and kept staring at me for a good ten seconds or more, idek it felt like minutes. He actually smiled/smirked a little but in such a funny way...I think he must have been really bored during the speech x“D also, it is the only moment of the speech that I don’t have recorded lol but well, whatever. Someone else actually captured it HERE X"D
After the concert has ended, I had to meet one of my friends inside the venue for one really pressing matter which is why I’ve missed SHINee’s departure from the venue but if things with this friend will work out, I won’t be that sad over it. I could not be sad over it anyway when I’ve managed to see them once more later that day...
My only fancam orz....
151204 The Old Town Square
After the concert we went for a quick lunch with friends but to be very honest, me and my bff just knew we both wanted to be totally somewhere else. „Try our luck“ was our motto. So we excused ourselves and went to the city together because the city center of Prague is so small and the most famous things are so close to each other that it really takes only a bit of luck to meet them... or hella lot of luck... depends on how you look at it J We went to Old Town square because it seemed like THE place they could go to us. We’ve spent there about an hour going back and forth with not much luck. We were really cold and tired so we got some mulled wine and decided to go for Charles Bridge. We walked it there and back again once and, accepting our fate that we weren’t lucky after all, we agreed that we will slowly walk to our homes. At one point we were standing on a crossroad and we were deciding whether we go back to Old Town square one way or another and fate had it just so we chose the right way. On the way back to the Old Town square my phone rang and it was thte friend that delayed me at the venue... it was a very important phonecall that made me even more excited about the whole day so you can imagine how my jaws literally dropped the moment I finished the phonecall when we arrived to the square to see....the ever so cute mr. Choi Minho stand there right in front of us! I didn’t believe my eyes, my friend tugged at my sleeve or nudged me or something but my brain really wasn’t catching up with the reality. Choi Minho alive and kicking...or well, you know, alive and admiring the view of the Clock Tower (or wth is the name in English x“DDD). He was passing by us and we were so shocked... idk how about Martina but I didn’t want him to leave without noticing us so I called „Minho-yah“... well, it was kind of slip of a tongue tbh... I wanted to call something else but whatever, he noticed us! He smiled at us and bowed to us and said „Thank you“ and „Sorry“ first in Korean and then in English and proceeded to walk towars the tower.
At first I thought it’s just Minho alone but then we looked around and saw the rest of them. They were there on a commented tour with a Czech guide speaking Korean and besides the fact that for the whole stay SHINee had pretty strict „no photo and no signature“ rule, they were listening to the tour guide and didn’t want to be interrupted. So Martina just went to ask the manager about the possibility of picture toether but after he said no we took few steps back and only watched them for a while from afar. We really didn’t want to bother them and even though Minho and Key looked kind of regretful towards us, Jonghyun seemed really focused on the guide, this cutie. He looked so small and at one point when we and the other fans approached them, he disappeared from my sight so well that I thought that he actually left. In the end he popped up right behind Key. Like can you imaine how small he is to get completely hidden behind Key?? Taeminnie looked little lost the entire time, like he was standing right next to the boys but he just... looked lost. Bab. ;;
Besides us, there were few other fans present but they also just stood there, with CDs, maybe hoping they would get signatures but the boys had pretty strick no signatures and no pitures rule. I don’t know how about them but when SHINee (with the guide, manager and staff) started heading away from the square, Martina and me went the opposite direction, just really happy that we at least met them. It also made me really happy that they actually took the time and went on a commented tour :‘)
Now, what makes me even happier is that they stayed for so long. There is many fanaccounts and even some pics from Saturday and although they were apparently working on Saturday, they still got to see Prague Castle and more. On Sunday and Monday, there were no sighting afaik, although it seemed that Key kinda played a „catch me if you can“ game with us on his instagram.
By the way, I don’t want to rant in my precious fanaccount of precious time but let me just say this: IT WAS EXTREMELY OBVIOUS THAT SHINEE WOULD GO TO THE PRAGUE CASTLE on Saturday since they were on Old Town square on Friday and those are the two main things to see when you are in Prague. So everyone who’s met them there was lucky only in terms of the timing. I don’t think any stalking happened and also all the fans I’ve met or the fanaccounts that I’ve read described rather well-mannered people. No screaming or yelling at them (only at the venue but like, who wouldn’t cheer for their idol as loud as possible???) and NO sasaeng situations happened in Prague. I know lot of poeple side-eye other fans taking pics of idols in their free time or even worse, during their work time but seriously, for 99% people who’s met them in Prague it was a once in a life time opportunity since let’s be real, we are not rich enough to fly to Korea so how could we possibly see them any time soon, so who can blame fans for taking a pic?? I’m sorry, I just wanted to put it out here. Fans were polite.
Moving on...
151207 Airport
As Martina said in her fanaccount, we tried our luck on the airport on both days during the weekend without any success, obviously. But on Monday I got kind of an confirmation that yes, SHINee is actually still in Prague and yes, they should be leaving today (Monday) because Jonghyun has a schedule very soon. So... we tried it for the third time like the desperate Shawols that we are.
We sat next to the entrance to all gates where everyone had to pass if they wanted to get into the duty-free zone and it was pretty certain that unless they took the vip entrance again, they HAD to pass by us. Actually I didn’t have much hope after the previous two days, I thought they’d really go through vip or i don’t know.
Since we were sitting on such an obvious places, we were also very nervous, thinking „What do we do if they really come? What do we do if they don’t?“. Besides, I had the horrible idea to wear glasses that day instead of contacts and I really can’t see shit in them. Despite that, after about some horrible long time of waiting, when we were really losing our hope because it seemed like most of the passengers already went through the gate, a group of girls appeared. They were in that kind „stylish“ outfits that made us think „STAFF“. Minute later, even with my shitty eyesight I saw a tall figure in the distance and I JUST KNEW it was the manager. And behind him.... mr. Choi Minho followed by Jonghyunnie ;;;;; I had really hard time noticing Tae and Key at such a big distance that was between us since they were at the very opposite end of the whole check-in area. From this distance we watched the as the manager-hyung got rid of all their suitcases while the boys went to get a coffee into Starbucks and bought something at the newspaper shop. It was so unreal, being able to see them just casually walk here and there ;;;;; At one point though they all went off to somewhere and Kibum stood there alone with just some staff guy and we considered shortly whether we should walk up to him or not but in the end we were too scared because the manager... or worse, the rest of them... might have been back any second x“DDDD
Not long after that the rest of SHINee actually really came back and the whole group went straight towards us, towards the gate. At that moment, I think, my jaws totally dropped and I totally froze. Jonghyun and Key went first and when they got close enough, we stood up and Martina called out „SHINee“ at them so they looked our direction and Martina held up a little sign saying잘가요 (have a safe trip, or literally “go well”). When Jonghyun and Key saw it, they looked really surprised and they both smiled at us (although I must admit I was probably too scared to look at Jjong, so Martina had to confirm it for me that he indeed had this really sweet smile of his when he saw us) and bowed to us to which I bowed a little too (habit from work, I guess x”D). It was such a short moment but I am really happy they saw at least us because how sad would it be to leave a country with no-one to see them off?? ;;; Although I guess it must have been nice feeling of change for them…
Anyway, Taeminnie and Minho went a little behind them, when JongKey were already at the gates. They had Starbucks cups and Minho was doing something on his phone. When they approached us, the thing I feared the most became real, because I was standing really close to trash cans they started heading even closer to us than JongKey because Taeminnie wanted to throw his cup away. The bins appeared to be too confusing with their recycling sections and Minho had to help him figure out where the cup should go x”D It was so cute…that was probably the moment when we should have called out to them again but to be honest we didn’t want to look even creepier than we already felt so we just watched them leave. Like this, we saw SHINee leave Prague and I am really really happy for all the cute and precious moments with them. All of this was my dreams coming true, dreams that I thought would remain dreams. I am really too happy for words (hahaha says me at the end of this 3k words fanaccount) so I’ll leave it here.
SHINee is the amazingest group I will ever know and I love them to the moon and back.
Okay, so this is my attempt at fanaccount of the madness that have been the past five days. Seeing SHINee live in Prague has been my biggest wish since forever and I still don’t entirely believe it has happened. Although it was only a small gig, three songs, no more, I still feel like the happiest person ever. SHINee, my favoruite group, has been in MY city. They even spent few days here and they seemed to have some nice time here, although they’ve also worked a bit.
Anyway, as for the concert - me being me, the time leading up to it was really stressful for me. I already admitted I am the biggest trash because I can’t remember the last time I’ve tried this hard for anything. The concert was for free, all you had to do was send an email with your ID details to group organizing korean events here in Prague. While many people doubted because SHINee in Prague sounded just way too good to be true, I didn’t hesitate for a second when I saw the news because I thought that with SHINee, you just cannot hesitate to succeed. I was also really really lucky because on the crucial day when we were getting emails with links to reserving seats, I didn’t have to go to work so I literally sat at my comp all day, refreshing email so I could register asap. Like this, I was able to get seat in the first row, pretty much right in front of Jonghyun...
Due to the lack of information and some mishaps in organization (but hey! It was the first kpop concert in Prague ever so I don’t want to complain and also, it was to be expect since it was the first time. And besides, embassies from four countries worked together on making this happen so of course there was bound to be some difficult communication...also from the side of SHINee’s managers, to be fair), it was really stressful two weeks during which we‘ve managed to prepare some fan projects for our boys but other than that my life has practially stopped.
On Thursday we waited for them at the airport in group of about ten to twenty people. Sadly, after the whole ordeal with missing their flight from MAMA and all, SHINee themselves left the airport through VIP exit and all we managed to do was to give our presents to one guy from the staff. He promised he will give them to the managers, so we can only hope the boys got them.
151204 The Concert
On Friday when we got to the venue, I still didn’t know how far... or close exactly I would be sitting and I must say that seeing the venue for the first time was the best surprise... it was big just enough and the seats were actually really close to the stage and overall it was kinda intimate atmosphere... at least in the first rows huhuhu. I was sitting in Sector 2’s first row which contained only two seats plus a seat for security guy lmfao. I was lucky enough to sit next to a super nice girl who even switched places with me so I could be even closer to the stage. (Thank you so much, bb, if you ever read this! TOT/) .
To be honest, the whole time before SHINee appeared on stage I was thinking that I am not ready, that I could never be ready. And then, way too soon but not soon enough... they’ve appeared. They started with Lucifer and (unsuprisingly) they slayed me from the first tone to the last. I was so happy that they were singing live (over back track but still! I didn’t expect that :‘)) and they sounded wonderful. Also, it was just as if I was sitting right there on the stage with them, I could see them SO clearly (unlike yesterday at the airport T.T). I wasn’t looking anywhere behind me because I didn’t want to miss anything but I think I must have been one of the few people having lightstick, definitely there in the front. So as soon as SHINee came on stage, Minho noticed it and smiled at me and even half winked at me. He seemed really suprised to see the ligtstick and also very pleased. Since then, it only went downhill because everytime any one of them was in front of me, they kept staring at me and my lightstick... needless to say I died many times during that short time. Especially when it was Jonghyun’s turns, which it was very often since I was sitting more on the left side where he usually dances T.T Btw. as for the dances, I must say I didn’t manage to see enough lol because I just couldn’t look away from their faces ;~; Especially Minho’s smiley one....they all looked a little nervous at first but before the first two songs (Lucifer and Beautiful) ended, they visibly relaxed. They seemed really happy because the fans were singing along even to Beautiful which they maybe didn’t expect and overall I think they must have felt just how happy we all were to see them. They saw with their own eyes that there are many many eager fans in Europe who love them just as dearly as any other fans in the world. It was dream come true for so many people! SHINee kept smiling and did all these little dorky things in the choregraphy they don’t normally do or that i would notmally fail to notice if i wasn’t in the front but still, the performance rocked so much and the singing was so amazing. I am, of course, little sad that Onew couldn’t make it but ot4 really did their best to cover up for their leader.
Between the first two songs they had short introduction segment where Taem took us by surprise because he greeted us in Czech, saying „Dobrý den“ in such a cute voice hehe. After him the rest introduced themselves and then at some point Jonghyun told Key to tell us what he’s learned in Czech and like this we got some more Czech phrases from Key, with perfect accent and all. He said „jak se máš“ (how are you), „prosím, zaplatím“ (bill, please lolol) but him saying „miluju tě“ (i love you) was my absolute favourite. At the end f the talk segment they introduced Beautiful as a song that is maybe not so famous and Taem said something along the lines that it’s okay if we just enjoy it/just watch it and he wondered whether we would be able to sing along. And sing along we did. I already mentioned, how freaking surprised and happy they seemed when we actually joined them for singing and I just have this wonderful feeling that we, as fans didn’t fail them.
After the performances of other artists, way too soon, came the last song. SHINee were closing the event with View and here let me tell you that View is my favoruite song and I am so so so happy I had the chance to see it live. I seriously cannot tell how wonderful it was, seeing them perform it from such a close distance with all the eye-contacts. I really don’t know how I’ve survived it. Also, I think I don’t even have to explain you why I didn’t take any pics or proper fancam. Besides sitting next to a security guy, I also didn’t want to miss a single nano-second by dealing with phone or anything. I was just staring at my favourite group doing their best on stage and I was barely breathing. They are so unspeakably beauitful. Jonghyun is an amazing ball of energy on stage, I honestly don’t even know where it comes from. Also, Kibum is so charismatic, I remember this from the SMTown in Paris in 2011 and he got even better over the time. He’s so striking in person!
Anyway, after View, SHINee remained on stage while all the other artists gathered and then the SK president had her speech. It was really long and I finally calmed down enough to take at least some fancam... sneakily though because of the security guy next to me. I also kept my lightstick on and kept playing with it because the speech was actually quite boring and idek I just tried to get some more eye-contact form SHINee...which wasn’t all that hard, considered they were standing right in front of me and kept stealing glances around everyone gathered in the front. They looked kind of bored and awkward during the speech but tbh so did everyone else because of the length of the speech and the fact that we all stood up for it and never sat down again. At one particular moment, I just waved the lightstick lightly and to my horror Jjong looked at me and kept staring at me for a good ten seconds or more, idek it felt like minutes. He actually smiled/smirked a little but in such a funny way...I think he must have been really bored during the speech x“D also, it is the only moment of the speech that I don’t have recorded lol but well, whatever. Someone else actually captured it HERE X"D
After the concert has ended, I had to meet one of my friends inside the venue for one really pressing matter which is why I’ve missed SHINee’s departure from the venue but if things with this friend will work out, I won’t be that sad over it. I could not be sad over it anyway when I’ve managed to see them once more later that day...
Click to viewMy only fancam orz....
151204 The Old Town Square
After the concert we went for a quick lunch with friends but to be very honest, me and my bff just knew we both wanted to be totally somewhere else. „Try our luck“ was our motto. So we excused ourselves and went to the city together because the city center of Prague is so small and the most famous things are so close to each other that it really takes only a bit of luck to meet them... or hella lot of luck... depends on how you look at it J We went to Old Town square because it seemed like THE place they could go to us. We’ve spent there about an hour going back and forth with not much luck. We were really cold and tired so we got some mulled wine and decided to go for Charles Bridge. We walked it there and back again once and, accepting our fate that we weren’t lucky after all, we agreed that we will slowly walk to our homes. At one point we were standing on a crossroad and we were deciding whether we go back to Old Town square one way or another and fate had it just so we chose the right way. On the way back to the Old Town square my phone rang and it was thte friend that delayed me at the venue... it was a very important phonecall that made me even more excited about the whole day so you can imagine how my jaws literally dropped the moment I finished the phonecall when we arrived to the square to see....the ever so cute mr. Choi Minho stand there right in front of us! I didn’t believe my eyes, my friend tugged at my sleeve or nudged me or something but my brain really wasn’t catching up with the reality. Choi Minho alive and kicking...or well, you know, alive and admiring the view of the Clock Tower (or wth is the name in English x“DDD). He was passing by us and we were so shocked... idk how about Martina but I didn’t want him to leave without noticing us so I called „Minho-yah“... well, it was kind of slip of a tongue tbh... I wanted to call something else but whatever, he noticed us! He smiled at us and bowed to us and said „Thank you“ and „Sorry“ first in Korean and then in English and proceeded to walk towars the tower.
At first I thought it’s just Minho alone but then we looked around and saw the rest of them. They were there on a commented tour with a Czech guide speaking Korean and besides the fact that for the whole stay SHINee had pretty strict „no photo and no signature“ rule, they were listening to the tour guide and didn’t want to be interrupted. So Martina just went to ask the manager about the possibility of picture toether but after he said no we took few steps back and only watched them for a while from afar. We really didn’t want to bother them and even though Minho and Key looked kind of regretful towards us, Jonghyun seemed really focused on the guide, this cutie. He looked so small and at one point when we and the other fans approached them, he disappeared from my sight so well that I thought that he actually left. In the end he popped up right behind Key. Like can you imaine how small he is to get completely hidden behind Key?? Taeminnie looked little lost the entire time, like he was standing right next to the boys but he just... looked lost. Bab. ;;
Besides us, there were few other fans present but they also just stood there, with CDs, maybe hoping they would get signatures but the boys had pretty strick no signatures and no pitures rule. I don’t know how about them but when SHINee (with the guide, manager and staff) started heading away from the square, Martina and me went the opposite direction, just really happy that we at least met them. It also made me really happy that they actually took the time and went on a commented tour :‘)
Now, what makes me even happier is that they stayed for so long. There is many fanaccounts and even some pics from Saturday and although they were apparently working on Saturday, they still got to see Prague Castle and more. On Sunday and Monday, there were no sighting afaik, although it seemed that Key kinda played a „catch me if you can“ game with us on his instagram.
By the way, I don’t want to rant in my precious fanaccount of precious time but let me just say this: IT WAS EXTREMELY OBVIOUS THAT SHINEE WOULD GO TO THE PRAGUE CASTLE on Saturday since they were on Old Town square on Friday and those are the two main things to see when you are in Prague. So everyone who’s met them there was lucky only in terms of the timing. I don’t think any stalking happened and also all the fans I’ve met or the fanaccounts that I’ve read described rather well-mannered people. No screaming or yelling at them (only at the venue but like, who wouldn’t cheer for their idol as loud as possible???) and NO sasaeng situations happened in Prague. I know lot of poeple side-eye other fans taking pics of idols in their free time or even worse, during their work time but seriously, for 99% people who’s met them in Prague it was a once in a life time opportunity since let’s be real, we are not rich enough to fly to Korea so how could we possibly see them any time soon, so who can blame fans for taking a pic?? I’m sorry, I just wanted to put it out here. Fans were polite.
Moving on...
151207 Airport
As Martina said in her fanaccount, we tried our luck on the airport on both days during the weekend without any success, obviously. But on Monday I got kind of an confirmation that yes, SHINee is actually still in Prague and yes, they should be leaving today (Monday) because Jonghyun has a schedule very soon. So... we tried it for the third time like the desperate Shawols that we are.
We sat next to the entrance to all gates where everyone had to pass if they wanted to get into the duty-free zone and it was pretty certain that unless they took the vip entrance again, they HAD to pass by us. Actually I didn’t have much hope after the previous two days, I thought they’d really go through vip or i don’t know.
Since we were sitting on such an obvious places, we were also very nervous, thinking „What do we do if they really come? What do we do if they don’t?“. Besides, I had the horrible idea to wear glasses that day instead of contacts and I really can’t see shit in them. Despite that, after about some horrible long time of waiting, when we were really losing our hope because it seemed like most of the passengers already went through the gate, a group of girls appeared. They were in that kind „stylish“ outfits that made us think „STAFF“. Minute later, even with my shitty eyesight I saw a tall figure in the distance and I JUST KNEW it was the manager. And behind him.... mr. Choi Minho followed by Jonghyunnie ;;;;; I had really hard time noticing Tae and Key at such a big distance that was between us since they were at the very opposite end of the whole check-in area. From this distance we watched the as the manager-hyung got rid of all their suitcases while the boys went to get a coffee into Starbucks and bought something at the newspaper shop. It was so unreal, being able to see them just casually walk here and there ;;;;; At one point though they all went off to somewhere and Kibum stood there alone with just some staff guy and we considered shortly whether we should walk up to him or not but in the end we were too scared because the manager... or worse, the rest of them... might have been back any second x“DDDD
Not long after that the rest of SHINee actually really came back and the whole group went straight towards us, towards the gate. At that moment, I think, my jaws totally dropped and I totally froze. Jonghyun and Key went first and when they got close enough, we stood up and Martina called out „SHINee“ at them so they looked our direction and Martina held up a little sign saying잘가요 (have a safe trip, or literally “go well”). When Jonghyun and Key saw it, they looked really surprised and they both smiled at us (although I must admit I was probably too scared to look at Jjong, so Martina had to confirm it for me that he indeed had this really sweet smile of his when he saw us) and bowed to us to which I bowed a little too (habit from work, I guess x”D). It was such a short moment but I am really happy they saw at least us because how sad would it be to leave a country with no-one to see them off?? ;;; Although I guess it must have been nice feeling of change for them…
Anyway, Taeminnie and Minho went a little behind them, when JongKey were already at the gates. They had Starbucks cups and Minho was doing something on his phone. When they approached us, the thing I feared the most became real, because I was standing really close to trash cans they started heading even closer to us than JongKey because Taeminnie wanted to throw his cup away. The bins appeared to be too confusing with their recycling sections and Minho had to help him figure out where the cup should go x”D It was so cute…that was probably the moment when we should have called out to them again but to be honest we didn’t want to look even creepier than we already felt so we just watched them leave. Like this, we saw SHINee leave Prague and I am really really happy for all the cute and precious moments with them. All of this was my dreams coming true, dreams that I thought would remain dreams. I am really too happy for words (hahaha says me at the end of this 3k words fanaccount) so I’ll leave it here.
SHINee is the amazingest group I will ever know and I love them to the moon and back.