(What do you mean, 'you're late'?)
Last weekend I visited Helsinki Book Fair 2009. :3 It wasn't really a convention but Finland arrangede its World Cosplay Summit preliminaries there so I guess you could say that the event had something to do with cosplay. I didn't participate in the preliminaries but I took part in the other category, "Cosplay Show", as Tatiana Wisla from Last Exile. My partner in crime, ~Elzy-Zen, also participated in that category. She cosplayed Meowth (/Nyaasu) from Pokémon.

Book Fair is kind of nostalgic event for me because my first masquerade experience takes place in it. This year I was reunited with many guys who had taken part in Cosplay Show -category last year and oh my, it was fun seeing those faces again and see how everyone had improved as cosplayers a lot during the year! I had also a lot of fun with ~Elzy-Zen and my friends *Dashiana and :devLuwBren: who were accompanying us. Because of Meowth's limited eyesight and movement capacity I had to hold her hand and lead her wherever we were going at the time. XD;

I was excited but not nearly as much as I was last year. I felt actually very comfortable on the stage. After I had performed, me, ~Elzy-Zen and Tinde-chan sat down and watched the preliminaries and last year's World Cosplay Summit winners YuRiE performing. After the show there was a break for an hour after the results were supposed to be told. During that break I just hanged around meeting people and enjoying the good atmosphere.

When we sat down in the hall again and the judges started to announce the results of both the cosplay show and WCS preliminaries, I was very happy to hear that ~Elzy-Zen got Judge's Honorary Mention award for her costume! I was happy for my friend but it wasn't long until the next Award was announced. I heard the announcer saying that another Honorary Mention was given to "the contestant number twelve" and I had to check my number and re-check it again in order to believe what had just happened. X,D So, I got my first award and I was so happy when joining the stage with my friend. 8>
And of course, congratulations to the winners of Finland's WCS preliminaries! I wish you the best of luck!

The best possible end for my cosplay year 2009. Now I will have to wait at least three months for next event. However, I have already started to make a new costume for a school event (Penkkarit). Nothing new, is it.