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Right I just got back from London and I’m so hyper and amazed at what has happened that I can’t really remember what has happened over the week so bare with me!!

Tuesday 26.01.2010
I got to the hotel at about 5.00pm and there were 4 fans there. Only real thing worth talking about is that I saw Amy Winehouse enter the hotel and she looked at me, I gave her a look of disgust XD. More and more fans came until there were maybe 10 or so… Ayu finally arrived at 11.15pm, wearing sunglasses (all I can remember…). She was tired so we could get 1 item signed each and that was it, she held all our hands though as we were all really cold (her hands are so warm and soft <3).

Wednesday 27.01.2010
This time I got to the hotel at about 7pm hoping I wouldn’t have to wait as long as the day before… how wrong was I!! Stan had told us that she would be at the hotel at about 9-10pm. 9-10pm went by and still no sign of her. Some people had to leave to get trains or tube, but the majority of us waited and waited. We kept ourselves entertained by listening to Ayu’s music (and doing the dance moves…) and walking around the tree nearby, I got a video of this and will upload it later. Finally at 3.30am she appeared wearing sunglasses again. She made up for the lateness though! She signed everything that we had, and posed for about 5 or 6 group photos, and once again held all our hands and wished us safe journeys and that we kept warm. After wishing her good night we all left and I got home at 6.00am

Friday 29.01.2010
After resting for Thursday I wanted to see Ayu in the morning as she left the hotel so I tried to get there fore about 11ish but after being delayed in Croydon I got there at 12.30 thinking I had missed her. She finally appeared at about 3.10pm (after I said that at 3.15pm I was gonna get McDonald’s, lucky me ^_^) The big shock this time was that was wearing sunglasses at all so we could see all her face!!! She signed everything and posed for photos, this time we were all allowed to take photos and we went insane taking photos and talking to her. After holding our hands again (still warm and soft <3) She left.
Me, Simon, Mayumi and SJ decided to kill a few hours. We went to get lunch, then went to Hamleys (a giant toy store near the hotel). We were stopped by a salesperson and they asked Mayumi what her name was. After she told them, the salesperson typed it into her computer and a personalised wake up song started playing with her name. We then decided to ask her if she had Ayumi in the database and was amazed to find she did. Not even thinking about we decided to buy a personalised CD with 21 tracks all featuring Ayu’s name (it’s designed for 5 year olds….) to give to her as a gift. We then went to various Japanese shops, I brought a copy of Vivi magazine with ayu so she could sign it. We went to the recording studio Ayu has been going to but was disappointed to find that she wasn’t there  So we went back to the hotel. I can’t even remember what time we got there but here were quite a few fans there. We showed everyone the CD and played them a sample of the first track I had recorded on my phone. After waiting for while and stealing 3 towels from the toilets (as revenge for being bastards to us for making us stand in the cold), Ayu appeared unexpectedly at about 11.pm. After signed stuff we finally got the chance to give her our gift. After explaining it too her (we also signed the CD and the inside of the case), she was played the sample on my phone. The moment her name was sung she laughed and gave the biggest smile I have seen her give, it made my heart melt, she loved it!! After posing for 1 group photo she went in. This time she held all out hands and when she got to me, she held me hand with both of hers, gripped it tightly and rubbed her hands together, looked straight into my eyes and said “Please keep warm!!”. Wow…

What amazed me was a) that she really cares about her international fans, even though she didn’t know we existed until last week and b) that even though we were cold, tired, in pain (from standing for so long), the moment she appeared all the coldness and pain went away…

What an amazing person <3