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9th June 2011
Susan fan Altena from Denmark had a dream, and that dream was to organise a meeting for fans from all over the world and to do this to celebrate Susan Boyle’s 50th birthday. Together with fellow fans Bgad and Scottish Mary she organised a world fan meet in Broxburn, West Lothian on Friday 1st April to celebrate Susan’s birthday.
Fans from all over the world, including Australia, The USA, Russia, and Europe, were piped into a dance hall by two young people playing the bagpipes. The room was laid out and decorated with Scottish flags, pictures and postures of Susan , balloons, party poppers and much more.
Susan joined the fans for several hours even though she had her own big birthday party to attend, and she and her niece Joanne entered to a great deal of warm applause. Susan was wearing a lovely red dress, with a blue and red scarf and a short red coat. She looked very happy and greeted some familiar faces in the room. Susan cut her birthday cake after the fans had sung happy birthday to her, before sitting down to some very special entertainment.
A children’s choir from Carmondean Primary School in Livingston, West Lothian, called the Carmondean Folk Scene, made up of children , aged 10 and 11, preformed a variety of songs, serious, and comical with Susan thoroughly enjoying the performance and asking them for an encore. A member of the group performed the Highland Fling – a very energetic Scottish Dance, some children recited Scottish poems and the bagpipes were played again as the haggis and a clootie dumpling were piped into the room; Susan spoke with the children before she left and had her photo taken with them much to their delight, and fans also gave them souvenir buttons (badges) and cardboard Susafaces to take away with them. Susan was presented with some flowers by one of the children on behalf of all of her fans.
Some fans got the chance for a brief word with Susan but she by now had to leave to get ready for her own big birthday bash at nearby Houston House.
After Susan had left the delighted fans enjoyed a variety of Scottish experiences; Scottish food and Scottish entertainment had been laid on and every one joined in the dancing, and the singing. Everyone was given a goody- bag to take home with again some typical Scottish goodies in it and the fans sang Auld Lang Syne as the evening ended and they left to return to the respective hotels and B & B’s.
The week end did not end there. A bus trip had been organised the following day and many of the group enjoyed a trip to Edinburgh and a visit to the Royal Yacht Britannia. On the Sunday Evening all the fans met together again in a local restaurant to share one last meal together, to toast Susan, and to share memories of a wonderful weekend.
A fantastic time had been had by everyone who came from all over the world. New friendships were made, and everyone wants to do it all again. Scottish Mary was rightfully singled out for special thanks by everyone for all the work she did to organise the event in Scotland and to make Altena’s dream come to reality.
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