Wait.....is that what I think it is?? (I said this numerous times last night)

Hola, mi Amigos!

I have been in Barcelona since Monday!!! This city is extremely interesting and I would like to live there at some point (but I said the same about London, Berlin, Prague, Rome...).


I WENT TO SEE MIYAVI LAST NIGHT!!! Yesterday I was quite hungover and was ambitious enough to walk over to find the venue at around noon, so I wouldn´t get lost getting there later in the day. I found the Sala Apolo about 10 minutes walk from the hostel, but get this! At noon, there were NO LESS than 200 young people waiting outside the door in a line that snaked around the block. I am NOT even joking, I really wish that I was. I had a mini panic attack because I wanted to be in the front...but decided that I am little and could squeeze my way to the front later on. So I did some more shopping weeeeee! I bought a new outfit for the show (somehow I didn´t feel like my 3 month old dirty outfits were very fitting for this event. I went into a few stores and tried on a few things...OH! But in one of the little stores, I asked to try something on. The girl said okay and proceeded to show me that the changing room was no more than a flimsy pseudo shower curtain that was strung up with wire in one corner of the open store. Brutal. But I really wanted to try it on, so I just went along. After a while I was like, jumping around and trying to shimmy into a top...I was like...wait...is that what I think it is??? I NOTICE A PEEPHOLE! I looked in and there was a MAN ON THE OTHER END!! WTF!? He immediately stepped away and I turned around the corner and said "You had better have an explanation for that!!" and he was just like "Perdoni!!! Perdoni!!!".


He DID end up giving me a discount. I got my outfit, did a bit more shopping and then went back to the hostel to get ready. I walked back to Sala Apolo around 5pm or so. I have to say that Spanish people really enjoy japanese music and alot of them were dressed up in the visual kei style. There were an amazing amount of reaaaaaaallly good looking people there :) I stood in line behind this girl who was really dressed up and beautiful. It was strange because I can´t understand Spanish or Catalan....so having a conversation with people in the line was kinda fun because we had to gesture and things. Kids in Spain have to learn English in school, so me and the girl in front of me started talking. She was only 17 and from Valencia, and travelled to Barcelona just for the show. We talked for a long time and looked in Miyavi´s bus, and also tried to think of ways to sneak in. You could FEEL the intensity and the excitement considering japanese artists rarely make it outside of Asia, as far as touring goes.




This was like the most epic part of the trip for me in a way, especially considering I was in love with Miyavi since I went to Japan when I was 15. When he came on stage I couldn´t even breath (also considering I was being squishied by spanish hipsters). It was UNBELIEVABLE. He is accompanied on this tour by the Kabuki boys, a group of japanese guys. Each one does something different...there is a DJ, an MC, an artist, a tapdancer etc. They were all in japanese costume with facepaint and it was all very fancy. Miyavi played a ton of songs and changed outfits 3 times!! The interesting thing too is that Miyavi can only speak Japanese and a little English. So when he spoke, it was in English with some japanese and a bit of Spanish. He has a cute accent because he is from Osaka...guys from Osaka have a "cool" accent because it sounds really tough, but when they speak in English it is really funny sounding haha. Anyways, it was amazing and I am still shaking from the experience. I got back to the hostel and decided that I was going to shower and go to bed, no drinking..I went up to my room and went in. I saw like 4 American boys in there and they were snorting something. I was like...wait...is that what I think it is!!?? And yes, they were definitely snorting cocaine. I was not a happy camper. All the cool roommates left and I was with 7 Americans in my room....all in the mood to party in the TINY space. I told them I honestly wanted to sleep and that if they wanted to party they would have to do it downstairs. Anyone want to guess how that went over? American boys don´t care what anyone else wants, as long as they are having a good time. So they smoked a huge bong in the room and took shots of absinthe and gin while I was trying to sleep. It was the absolute WORST ever. I didn´t sleep at all, and get this! They left around 1am to go to a club, and came back around 5 or 6am. They decided that they were going to invite around 10 to 15 people in the room to smoke some more, turned on all the lights and made a ton of noise. OH MY GOD and then later on, when everyone was kind of asleep, I woke up because all this liquid seeped down onto my bed from the top bunk. I was like NO WAY NO WAY NO FREAKING WAY IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS!!!!??? I thought the guy above had peed himself like an absolute champion. I got up and freaked out, but then I realized that his buddy was there, and had just poured an entire litre of cold water on him because he though it was funny. So I had to sleep with a wet bed, UBER pissed. Hahahaha that was such an awful night :( So needless to say, was pumped when I checked out today. I have just been trying to relax before my night train to Paris tonight. I arrive tomorrow morning at 9am. Considering last night, I am just really excited to come home to my bedroom and see everyone. Concert was incredible though, eeeeek! I´ll be home in a few days so I will update once more from Paris. Love yalls

SARAH!


Adios <3