I'm still on cloud nine from my amazing day yesterday. I finally got the 10,000th person for my blog. I was able to get Clemens Rehbein from
Milky Chance to wear my glasses. For some time I have been close to the 10,000th person wearing my glasses. I was thinking long and hard about who I could get to wear my glasses. I had some ideas playing around in my head of who I might be able to get. They were a bit far fetched. I didn't want to wait that long because I continuously post pictures of events I go to. Then I came across an event that Trash Hero Praha was hosting with Milky Chance (
Trash Hero Praha s Milky Chance uklízí Letnou). At first I thought they were just promoting it, but were not actually going to come. The night before I read the description again and it clearly stated that they were going to help out. I couldn't believe my luck. I did a bit of research and saw that the first time they posted their hit Stolen Dance was September 7th 2012 and I had started my blog later the same month!!!!! (September 28th 2012) So, with this in mind, they were the perfect ones to be 10,000 for me. Much more of a personal meaning and I have listened to that song so many times (To be honest it was the only song I knew from them before that day). I was only 14 people away from 10,000 and I knew it would be easy to get 13 people at the clean up before hitting that sweet 10,000 I have been thinking about for a while. When the time came for the event to start we waited a bit and the band wasn't there. We decided to start without them and then suddenly I saw them. I asked all the volunteers around me if I could quickly take their picture. Everyone was super nice and quickly agreed. I hope I remembered everyone's country properly! If I made a mistake, please let me know so I can fix it. Then I saw my chance to talk to the lead singer, Clemens. I told him about my blog and I told him that I needed 5 more people before I wanted to take his picture. He said he would have to think about it. I continued with the clean up and got some more pictures. Then one of the fans go a nasty cut on her leg from a broken piece of glass that had broke through the bag. I helped cleaning the cut and bandaging it up (I hope everything is ok with your leg!). Then Clemens walked by just as I was about to take the last two photos. Then I told him that the guy I was taking the picture was 9,999, and he responded with, "OK, I guess its my turn then". I was so happy. I just took his photo on the spot when I should've had the nice Praha background view, opps!! And then I was so distracted with getting his picture that I forgot to get the rest of the band to wear my glasses, sorry!!!! It was a successful clean up. We picked up 161kg of trash in less than 2 hours. At the end we got a live version of
Stolen Dance (click to watch the video of them singing), but at one point Clemens forgot the lyrics and I had to help, he even acknowledges it, haha! All the Milky Chance members were super nice. I was asked if I was going to the concert that night, but I told them I couldn't because it was sold out. A couple hours I was informed that the band gave us Trash Heroes some free tickets. Later that night I was on the guest list and got to enjoy such an incredible
concert(click the link to see my close up footage). I'm so glad that I got to go to the concert because it introduced me to all their other amazing songs. It was so cool for me because I got the free ticket from them! The energy the guys had on stage was phenomenal!! It surprised me considering how chill the guys were earlier in the day. I also got some great video footage from the concert that I will post on YouTube later. And it was a perfect way for me to celebrate my 10,000 accomplishment!!! Having a musician be number 10,000 is actually perfect because I can easily listen to their music whenever I want and be in a happy mood. Music is very powerful and can bring us back to certain moments. Things happen for a reason and it's been a long time coming for me to reach this milestone. I have met so many amazing people on this journey. I can't wait to see what else my path has in store for me. I have met John Travolta, the guys from the YouTube channel Honest Guide, professional skateboarders, pro surfers, a pro sumo wrestler, firefighters, a politician, tv host, comedians, actors, athletes, research scientists, captains, pilots, tv personalities, DJs, hard working moms and dads, bedouins, people and animals from all walks of life (I even have a kangaroo wearing my glasses). I have around 125 nationalities represented on my blog and the glasses have been on all the continents. When I was in Antarctica I made a snowman so I could have a native wear the glasses! The Romanian band,
Les Elephants Bizzares, even made a song for my blog (
Trippin' - first song of the video not the second song!!!) It has been such an amazing adventure and a great way to meet people. I want to thank everyone so far who has been part of my project. Who will be the next exciting person I get???!!!
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Czech Republic |
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beautiful blue skies |
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the Vltava |
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about to start the clean up |
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so many pieces of glass and cigarette butts in the area |
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Czech Republic |
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Germany |
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Germany 9990 |
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Czech Republic |
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Spain |
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Czech Republic 9990 |
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Portugal |
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Czech Republic |
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Czech Republic |
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Czech Republic |
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getting her cut bandaged up |
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Canada |
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Australia |
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Germany 10,000!!!!!!! |
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cheeky tongue out! haha |
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done with the clean up |
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proud to wear yellow |
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all the bottles collected |
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sorting the trash |
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Philipp Dausch in tan |
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music time |
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good job everyone!!! |
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ok now everyone is included in the picture |
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Milky Chance and Trash Heroes! |
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concert time! |
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close up! |
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nice coloring |
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sing it loud!! |
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it was a packed house! |
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electric |
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my free ticket! thanks guys!!! |
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on fire |
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fav pic of the night |
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gotta include everyone- Antonio |
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Philipp awesome hair! |
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drummer- Sebastian |
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Na zdraví |
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they were on fire the whole night!! |
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great set! |
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encore! |
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focus |
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almost in the audience |
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great harmonica playing |
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great job guys! thanks for an amazing concert!!!! |
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