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The tale:

I apologize for my english, but i'm italian and it's not easy for me to write in another language, though i really love english...ok, let's start...

 
BEFORE GETTING TO VENICE...
"Serena, you could miss him...there are not many chances for you to see him..."
i could still hear my mother's voice, looking out of the window of the train...
i was really ungry when she said that!!it was my dream, and she didn't have the right of ruining it...
I had many ideas in my mind, lots of thoughts, though i wasn't really thinking at something: i was so excited!!it was the dream of my life!!
i thought at my friend francesca that managed to kiss Johnny last year in venice,and i thought that for me it was enough just to get to see him...but then i realised that what i really wanted was a kiss from him...

This was not the point, anyway, 'cause i had always admired Johnny, snce i was a child. He is my "guide"...he is an angel to me, a person that i really respect a lot, for his choices, for his lifestyle...He's just an amazing actor and a wonderful person to me, and that day i was very nervous, and i didn't really know what to think and what to do.

 
And so, there i was, at the Bologna station, waiting for Angela and Andrea, two persons of the italian fanclub of johnny depp, created by francesca (the one who kissed him last year) in 2003...
my mind was full of hope and confusion.
the first preoccupation was that it was not sure that johnny would come, in effect...
 
the second one was that there would be lots of people, and it would be really hard for me to see him...
 
Angela and Andrea arrived and we got into the train Bologna-Venice...
"we're coming, venice!!" i continued thinking, hoping i would not faint if i could see him...
 
we arrived in venice and we met other girls of the fanclub...it was great, 'cause i had never seen some of them but we talked to each other as if we had always been friends...(this is another gift Johnny gave to me)!
 
And so, here i was, with the other girls, with the t-shirt with the pic of Jack Sparrow...and i felt ready to start my adventure...
 

LIDO OF VENICE

 
We arrive at the lido in 40 minutes...we were really excited..."maybe Johnny is there in this moment...maybe we're breathing his same air..." (i know, i'm really crazy, but i've always loved him since i was a child and it seemed to me not real to be there...)
Lots of important people in the world of cinema was there...People running here and there, lots of "shops", the air was frenetic, special, MAGIC...
it was in that moment, there, in the crowd, tha i realized i really made it, i was there...
 
We took the tickets, the weather was really hot...
LOOKING FOR HIM
i still don't know and still can't understand  how we managed to get in the exact place where Johnny would come just a few minutes before his arrival, but we did...
 
after we took the tickets, i started speaking with a girl in a shop, and she told me that Johnny was there, or he would come soon...everyone i asked confirmed the same thing...Johnny was here and that was the only thing that really mettered in that moment...
i started running, the whole group of the fanclub behind me, and i still don't know why but i found the right place...
we waited a bit without knowing where to stand, 'cause there were photographers in every place and people screaming everywhere..
 
suddenly, we started hearing voices, crying "Johnny!!!" and finally we saw him...he was handsome...I had convinced a photographer to let me stand next to him, in the very first row, together with other men with cameras...
...he got out of the taxi (a ship, 'cause we were in venice)and said hello to us...waving his hand...I didn't know what to do or what to say, i couldn't even talk...It was a great, strong emotion!It was the first time i saw Johnny in my life, and he seemed to me completely different...I was surrounded by people screaming, saying his name, and everything...But i could't move...i was struck there and couldn't take my eyes off him...He continued smiling, waving at us...I don't really know how to explain my feelings in that moment...
 
then he got into the palace of casiṇ...we were going away when we realised that he would get out of the palace...the taxi was waiting for him!!
 

AND HE GETS OUT OF THE PALACE...

we finally found a place in the front row, but we were not in a central position...Johnny was not supposed to stop there...he was supposed to walk there and go away...
we waited half an hour (maybe more), triying to get friends with the bodyguards...we found a photographer that gave me a pic of Johnny that he took himself...(but don't tell anyone - he added...)
then, francesca arrived...and i was really happy to meet her...
then...Kate Winslet got out, and then...JOHNNY!!
he was irresistible, he had glasses, but we could see his beautiful eyes...i was really happy...well, happy is not the right word, 'cause i was more than happy...I was struck by his eyes, 'cause he seemed to understand everything i felt in that moment just looking at me...It was very crowded, and people were screaming.
he was going away, the bodyguards told him not to stop...but we started screaming and then...he turned and came towards us...
he singned all the autographs, he was eally kind and gentle, really attentive 'cause he didn't want to let no one unsatisfacted, he treated us with respect, he seemed to know what we were feeling for him,....i have his autograph on "on the road" (he looked amazed when he saw i had that book and i took it for him..for his autograph...), then we told him about the fanclub and gave him a paper with the url...he kept it and said "wow"^^
then we told him we loved him so many times...we told him "see you tonight" ('cause there would be the premiere of his movie, finding neverland...) and he smiled...then i asked him "can i have a kiss?" and he said "OH, YES, SURE"...and kissed me...
i can not describe this moment...i felt it was the happiest day of my existence...i longed to stop time and stay like that forever...he smelt of tobacco and another sweet parfume...
i felt so happy that i started crying...he saw that and looked at me...and smiled...his eyes are so magnetic that i really felt like dying...it was really strange...
 

"After"

 
i turned and the other girls embraced me (another one had a kiss after me, but i'll always remember i was the first one^^), then i turned and a japanese with a huge microphone started questioning me, and then another journalist from switzerland came...i was so confused that i son't remember whhat i said...
 
we looked johnny  going away on the taxi...i had my videocamera with me, i took the movie of his arrival, of his departure, and a friend of mine took the move of him talink with us and my kiss...this reminds me it was not a dream...
 
we called him again, screaming "Johnny, we love you", he looked at us and put his hand on his heart...
 
it was a perfect day, indeed...
 

THE NIGHT - THE SECOND MEETING...

the movie was supposed to be at 11.45 pm...and we were there at 8.00 pm...
but they were late and we waited until 2 in the moring!!!
 
when he came, we were wery tired and he was, too...
We didn't even know if he would have stopped with us, 'cause it was very late...But he came!!
he signed all the autographs...he was really nice once again...
when he came near us, he said hello to us (he recognized us!!!)...when he came to me, i asked him to take a photo together...and he agreed...(in the "photos" section there is our pic together...
 
then he went away into the cinema to go and see his movie...he put his hend on his heart again to say hello to us and he treated us once again with sweetness and respect...
 
now, i'm in his heart too, and he knows that we are there...and that's enough...
so, sorry everyone for my bad english and THANK YOU JOHNNY from the bottom of my heart, for making a lost girl feel a little more found...