Meeting Andreas Johnson on the talkshow Hanna on
swedish TV3 17/10 2002

Well... to start with, this must all have been destiny. I usually don´t check my mail on Mondays. But this Monday I did as soon as I came home from work.I don´t know why really... On Monday the 13th October a very nice girl called Paola, mailed me about some TV-show. I didn´t really understand a thing, but I gave her my number and she called me very fast.
I got to know that they were gonna do a program about fans and their idols. They had found my name on the guestbook of the www.andreas-johnson.it site and she asked me a lot of questions about Andreas Johnson and his music and why I was a fan of him etc etc.
Paola wanted me to send her a long mail the next day, telling about how I felt for Andreas Johnson´s music and how it has inspired me. So, coming home late in the evening, I started to write the mail. I didn´t know how much to write... But it happened to be pretty much I guess. Got to bed at 2 o´clock... had a hard time trying to sleep and had to go up at 4.30 and be at work by 6.00 o´clock.....
Paola called me again the next day and told me that I really should come and be a guest on the show.
Suddenly there was a lot of things to do. The car was going to service and I had to take a train or a bus.
My friend Angela wanted me to visit her and she told me come early on Wednesday morning, as she was free from work the whole day....
Which shortly meant; chaos on Tuesday night. I came home from work, went to see a friend at a café ( I had to talk to someone about this...),Booked train tickets, transfered money on the bank, left my cat at my parents house and.... then I only had to pack a trunk. And try to print out the things that I was gonna say and read at the TV-show. Of course the printer started to act wierd and the black ink was empty.

Got to bed REALLY late.... had to catch a very early train on Wednesday morning...Anyway, Wednesday was a good day. My friend tried to make me nervous for the TV-show. She didn´t succeed. And I had more than 3 hours of sleep that night! So...the BIG day came....
Thursday.... Got to the place called UR, where the show was recorded, by 19.00 am.
Met Paola, who was talking to two other girls. Another girl showed me to a room where I should wait for the make-up girl to come. There was a TV in the room but the only thing I cared for at that moment was to read my newspaper. My friend Angela hadn´t got any TV nor radio and all I wanted to know was how the soccergame went for Sweden against Portugal. Got angry and disappointed when I read the result... (Sweden-Portugal 2-3). There was also a pool table, table hockey-game, dart, and a ping pong table in the room. Unfortunatly noone to play ping pong with... I went for the dart instead. Hadn´t play dart since I was 19 years old and used to do it on a pub at home... I wasn´t even good at it then. I was even worse now I guess.

Paola came to talk to me about the show and the questions that I was supposed to answer and everybody who was there was really really nice.
Started to get a bit nervous.... what if people back home would think that I was really crazy to be at this show? But no... I was just gonna tell about how Andreas music makes me feel and maybe read a poem...it wasn´t worse than that. I could make it... this was just for fun actually.
The start of the show was getting closer and we wentdown to the studio. I just saw a few minutes of the beginning, then a girl asked me to come with her outside to the corridor. I had to sit there and wait for my turn to enter the show. Suddenly it was my turn.....


I went to the small stage where the other guests sat and I sat down in an armchair.... I´m not very tall and I hardly could reach the floor with my feet....

The programleader, Hanna Widell, started to ask things and I answered... I read a text about what I feel when I hear "Glorious" and then Hanna asked me what I
wanted to say to Andreas Johnson if I met him.... God, I didn´t know really. I´ve never thought of meeting him. Anyway... suddenly Andreas Johnson walks in to the stage.... I was totally chocked and surprised. I just thought that "this isn´t happening, it can´t be!" But it happened. Right there, Andreas came and gave me a hug and then he sat down beside me. I was still in chock. My brain was gone and I didn´t know what to do or say. Andreas was SO sweet.... he was so nice and sweet. I read one of my poems for him, a poem that I actually wrote for him once.



Nothing really serious. He just laughed and gave me another hug. I was paralyzed....
what if he thought that I was totally insane? There he was... a really great artist who can put words in a very poetically style and make the most beautiful songs.... and me... just little me sitting there by his side, reading this crap to him. I couldn´t believe that the person that with his music, which makes me cry and makes me find myself and my feelings, was sitting there by my side. He looked so sweet and gentle.
I felt like I wanted to take care of him.... just put him in my pocket and take care of him, protect him from all the evil things and mean people in the world. He was bigger than me, at least taller, but I felt like an elephant in his arms (it might be time to start exercise a bit... got to think of it a bit more first...). Anyway... Andreas and his band played "Waterfall" in the end of the program... And of course my mind was drifting away....thinking of a summer romance that I recently have tried to let go from my life. After the show I got to talk a little more to Andreas and he gave me the forthcoming single "Waterfall" and signed it for me. There was so many things I wanted tosay to him.... But my mind was totally blocked of the chock meet him. I had to go to the bus then and Andreas was going somewhere too. So we said "good-bye" and before we went to different directions, Andreas said to me "keep on writing, you never know where it leads to..."
I was like flying around in heaven.... I couldn´t concentrate on anything really. I sent a sms to a friend, telling her that I met AJ and she called me up as soon as she had got the sms. I still couldn´t believe that I actually had talked to Andreas. I ran the sequences in my head again and again, but I still
had hard to understood that it actually had happened.It all was so unreal. The trip on the bus got fast and I was back in Motala by 3.00 pm. Had to start work at 7.00 pm, but it didn´t matter. I was walking around on some kind of extra-energy (mostly caused by too much coffe and too less sleep I guess). I was the most lucky person on earth that day!

I´m so happy that I had got the chance to tell him how his music inspires me and I´m really lucky that I was the one to meet him as I never had seen him live or met him before. And I´m greatful to Paola and everyone else at the team of Hanna, that made this big thing for me. I can never thank them enough. And I don´t know how to thank Andreas for coming to the show and see me. It meant a lot to to me... and everyone was so nice to me.... so...if anyone of you who had something to do with that show reads this...I just want to say a big THANK YOU! Thank´s for all the things you did for me and all the support you gave me... And thank´s for bringing Andreas Johnson there. I got really surprised.
Maybe dreams can come true...


Master of Intelligence