Hi everybody,
My name is Daniela and I come from Bolivia.
I am 23 now and finishing my studies in Engineering, I have lived in Bolivia, the US and now I'm living in Lyon, France.
I have a big problem with passion, I have too much of it, for everything that I like, I love music (I sing), painting, writing and riding a bike. I love knitting scarves (not the knitting MFC kind..), I love sunrises, sunsets, wind and rain. People say I have a heart instead of skin for I feel everything very intensely.
I got to hear Mika when Relax was just on the radio when it came out in 2006, and I instantly became a huge fan with Grace Kelly after that, I had always struggled with fitting in anywhere, and a song that sang exactly what I had been feeling since I could remember was litterally a life saver at that time.
I started working to be able to pay my studies in Europe (Bolivia is beautiful but I needed to dream of big opportunities) and I finally got accepted to a university in France.
I was already a big fan of Mika when I moved to France, there was a concert in a little village in the middle of France my first year away from home, I hadn't seen my family for over a year and I was feeling more of a foreigner than ever. Not having so much money, the day I saw in some billboards he was going to sing in the Aix le Bains Lake's Festival I promised myself I had to find every single penny in my room to be able to pay for the ticket. I went hitchhiking to the village, without even a place to stay there over the night. During the concert it was raining and while others were complaining I thought it was perfect, such fredom, such joy with his music, I was finally seeing my favorite singer live! (nobody goes to Bolivia to do such concerts...), never had I seen such a magical show, that concert made me forget everything outside of that moment and it was well worth spending the night on the street afterwards to catch the first train back to Lyon the next morning.
I really admire him, but I don't think I'd scream at the sight of him, I wouldn't run towards him telling him how much I adore him because I think he is a normal person like everybody else, and I would be afraid if someone came running screaming they loved me... although that's the price to pay for being so talented (could be worse huh? )
But I would definately stand in line for hours and hours to be in the front row of his concerts, and probably stay for hours and hours after his shows just to have the opportunity of greeting him and thank him for what his music did for my life. The more I get to know his music, his blogs, his interviews, the more I think that he is a great person, and I hope one day I'll get to know him personally just to be able to have one normal conversation with him. A girl can dream...
Until then I will keep on saving to be able to pay for a ticket for his next concert, this time in Lyon! I am even thinking of asking to volunteer in the organisation of the event if I don't get to save enough
Anyhow I would like to thank all of you who didn't get bored with my long presentation.
If there are any MFCers in Lyon, it'd be a pleasure to meet you somewhere here, for all the rest, I would really like to meet you around Europe and the world!!
<3 <3 love everywhere
