It’s a huge weekend of music here in Barcelona. The other night, I had tickets to see the ‘Red Hot Chili Peppers‘. Barcelona was the start of their European tour. The concert was Fabulous! My friends and I squeezed our way right up to the mosh pit in front of the stage. This gave us an excellent view of the stage, we were so close, only 5 rows back. But, this meant we had the entire weight of thousands of people pushing up against us and we had nothing to hang on to, so we were feeling the stress, my feet were off the ground during most of the concert! My body turned against me and I fainted. Apparently, I managed to pass out in the center, so I was held up by all the bodies surrounding me, but me friends managed to carry me, well drag me, out of the crowd. Tell told me the yelled the whole way.

They took me to the medical tent, which was quite a show in of itself. The doctor was asking me so many questions, like, ‘Where are you?’, ‘How many fingers am I holding up?’, etc. I was completely alright, but the music was so loud that I couldn’t hear any of his questions, plus he was speaking Spanish! So, there I am knowing what answers he wanted from me, but I failed to communicate with him well in Spanish. I was laughing so hard, the doctor kept shaking his head. I finally managed to convey that I’m alright, by letting him know I’m staying at a Barcelona, Spain hotel and that I faint all the time, it’s nothing serious. He let me go back to the concert. We of course headed back to the same spot. It was great!

The next three nights, I had tickets to the music festival ‘Primavera Sound‘. This time I brought plenty of water, but I found that wasn’t necessary because there was no fear of heatstroke, the bands didn’t start playing until 10pm  and the final acts take the stage around 5am! I ditched the water for plenty of caffeine.

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