11/2/13
The lack of sleeping I have been obtaining is finally catching up to me. I didn’t wake up until 1pm and didn’t hear a noise while I was sleeping. It was a peaceful night.
Today a piece of America followed me to Poland though. For Agata’s birthday, Ula bought her 2 tickets to see Nickelback in concert. Unfortunately none of Agata’s friends were available to go, but fortunately for me that means I got to attend the concert. My dad drove us 3 hours to Warsaw to see the band live. I slept on the ride to and from the concert.
There was a soccer game (football) also playing across from the concert. The traffic was ridiculously crazy! We had to be dropped off on the main highway and walk to the front door. While waiting out front of the building, I told Agata all about my Halloween night before I was in the club with her.
Inside the concert, Agata invited me to visit her in Krakow anytime. We sat on the steps just talking about everything while the band before Nickelback played inside the stadium. We agreed I need to practice my Polish so it can get back for next time we go out.
Once the concert finally started, we stood in the back of the crowd and listened to the songs. Nickelback could only say “thank you” and cheers” in Polish which is just about as much as I can say as well. It was nice listening to the music because it sounded like my Lite Rock 96.9 FM station at home. We swayed in the back and sang along to some of the songs. In Poland they have a Facebook group for each concert. In the group people put up announcements to make sure everyone brings a lighter or sign for during the show. During our show, everyone held up their lighters to one song and also passed a long banner from the front of the stage to the back row. It read, “We Will Always Be Here for You.” This showed me unity in Poland because total strangers worked together as a team. This is a different feelings then the concerts in America. A concert in any country is nice though.
After the lovely concert, the soccer game also finished at the same time so the streets were packed. There were police officers on horses in the middle of the crowds. At bus stops there were SWAT teams making sure there were no riots. Thankfully the soccer team won their match so there were only happy chants.
We were all hungry heading home so we stopped by McDonalds but that was closed. Next we went to KFC but apparently all of Warsaw had the same idea. We ate drive-through KFC on the drive home and told mom and dad about the concert.
It was a relaxing day after our jam packed weekend.
Stephanie Raquel
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