MTV Campus Invasion--Marburg

So two weekends ago I attended the spectacular MTV event called Campus Invasion, hosted right here in Marburg. I didnt get tickets in advance so I had to wait with a friend outside and wait for tickets. This ended up being quite fun though. There was a bunch of teenagers in front of us with lots of food, drinks, and card games. They even had UNO!!! I was so excited at seeing UNO I asked if we could play. So the next three hours involved playing UNO, eating their apples, bread, and drinking juice boxes. It kinda felt like the trips to the Como Zoo when I was a kid.

Then the ticket box office opened and pandamonium broke out--what was a nice orderly line of kind and polite Germans, turned into a riot of pubescent teens thinking the tickets were almost sold out. When we finally got to the ticket counter, they had stacks of tickets six inches thick. Next time, I plan ahead. Of course, I always say that too.

So the concert was pretty fun. Its been about six or seven years since my last concert, but its nice to see some behaviors only stay the same. I mean this sarcastically, of course. Mainly, cause I lost a shoe. And my beloved leatherman. This is what I get for being 29 and not being aware of the fellows around me, hoisting me in the air and crowd surfing I went--all the way to the stage where a burly security was much more gentle than I could have ever hoped. What a gentleman, I thought. I gave him my number.

Someone, somewhere has some video of this concert. If I should find it, I will certainly post it. I stick out like a sore thumb do to my ever stylish yellow shirt and green backpack I was wearing.

I stuck around after the concert to see if I could find my shoe (I had no hope for the leatherman), but was disappointed. I did find someone else's brown shoe, which was a size too small, but better than nothing. So there is probably someone out there missing a brown sketcher who had to go home wearing my three-year-old faded tennis shoe. Such is destiny.