MrsKowalewicz

Yeah so I wrote a very emo entry like a year ago about the 3rd time I met him further down below vvvvvvv.

I had time to meet him twice again since. HA!
So this is the continuation to my previous entry:

The 5th one was very brief and rather unteresting: I was walking around the backstage area of an Alexisonfire / Anti-Flag / Saosin show when suddenly WHAT DO I SEE? BEN TALKING TO DALLAS GREEN. I didn’t exactly expect to see Ben that night. I said hi, he gave me his hyper “HEY!” and grin that looks like u just made his day. And I melted a little haha. <3

The 4th one is the interesting one:

So BT were getting huge and I was like baaahh I’ve never really told Ben really the impact he’s had on me growing up and that’s really a bum out. I’d written a letter to him explaining it all and thanking him for everything, but then I couldn’t figure out how to get it to his hands. In Montreal, we got this retarded ass French tv show called R-Force. Basically, they help kids do stuff they can’t do without help haha, solve problems, realize dreams, etc. One night, me and my best friend were drunk and shit and we kiddingly write this retarded email about my love for Ben to this tv show. I was still 17 at the time so still legit to participate.

I didn’t think they were even gonna read my request…

4 months later, BT were playing the biggest arena ever in Montreal, and a week before, I get this phone call: “Hi, Marie-Christine? This is whoever from R-Force. We got your request. It’s not gonna be possible for you to meet Ben, however, we will be interviewing the band, so we could give them your letter. We could come pick it up and blah blah blah.”

I was like, WHA? ....ah, whatever.

I was being slightly naive about it, but when they made my parents sign papers that allowed them to show footage of me on provincial tv and then the whole crew showed up at my school and started filming me, I STARTED BEING SUSPICIOUS ABOUT THIS ALL BEING JUST ABOUT THIS STUPID LETTER.

So obviously, turns out they filmed this episode about my BT obsession, and they drove me to the venue, got me sitting in a backstage lounge interviewing them (!!), giving Ben my letter on air (SO EMBARASSING LOL), and getting 439857934 presents from the band. Including floor tickets, thing I hadn’t managed to get, that allowed me to end up center front row at the show, HA!

Surreal?
I think so.