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Oh, and about the story with his grand mother and Grace Kelly, he said: "Grace Kelly a parlé pendant une heure, elle n'a rien compris" : Grace Kelly talked for an hour, and she (his grand mother) didn't understand a word. When we went back home my mother asked me to translate what he said (she is from Syria, and does not speak french), and I did, so she said: "It's the same here, he talked for two hours and I didn't understand a word". He was incredible!

I was there too I arrived at 8pm, with my mother, my brother, my four cousins, and two of my aunts (yes, that's a lot) This event was very important for me, I had a very special gift for Mika. The story is a bit long, but if you read it you'll know why is was really important. My mother is from Syria. Before the war, we used to go there very often. One of my favorite places in Damascus is the Bakdash ice cream shop in the souk. Believe me, it is really delicious. Mika himself loves this place, and flew 8 hours in order to get some of it; he said: "This is the best ice cream in the world". (Here is the video of Mika eating ice cream in Damascus, Syria: ) We stopped visiting family and friends there after the war began, our last visit was in April 2011. But we had to go back even if it was dangerous, because my grand-mother died , and we had to go to the funerals. My mother nearly fainted when she heard the news and could not talk anymore, she just kept saying: take me there, take me there. We looked on the internet but could not find flights from Tunis taking off early enough for us to be on time for the funerals. It was really urging, so we decided to go to Beirut first. That's what we did, and then we traveled by car to Lattakié. After the funerals, we went back to Damascus and rested a bit. For several reasons, we had to go to the souk. And of course, we stopped in the ice cream shop, and bought 3kg of it. When I bought it, I thought: I would love Mika to be here, maybe we could share some ice cream". The guy who sold it was very nice and he wrapped very well so we could travel back home with it. In the airport, we were stopped because apparently, it was not allowed. After a long talk with the guys there, we were finally able to take it to Tunis. When I knew that Mika was coming, I decided to give him some of it: knowing that we won't be going back to Syria soon, we were aware that the ice cream was a bit precious. We only had 1kg left, and it was my brother's but he agreed to let us take a half. So we took it, and wrapped it like they did in the shop, so it stays frozen. When we arrived, we gave it to a woman working there, and she put in the fridge. After the concert, we waited for Mika to get out (not with the bunch of stupid people screaming around like animals . I just hope Mika won't hate us tunisian fans because of them, they are just very young... We waited on the other side, alone, but we could not see him. They didn't let us get the ice cream. Then, the woman came and told us that is it impossible to talk to him, because the crowd was getting crazy on the other side. But this woman works there so she talked to Mika's sister (Yasmine) and showed her the ice cream. She recognized it and took it :') She said she will give it to Mika . I don't know if she did, or if he ate it, but I just hope he appreciated what we did because believe me, it was not easy to get it from Damascus.