Remember that One time I went to an Akon Concert in Cairo, for free?!

This past weekend I was so lucky to see Akon with a free VIP pass. Very Nice. My friend Hend, the same girl who I was living with when I first arrived to Cairo, got her hands on some free tickets and we had quite an interesting time. With our duty free bottle of Bacardi and Concert-ready spirits, we were set to endure an Akon concert…which none of us are huge fans of. Akon is one of those artists that just guest stars on a lot of songs, but never really has their own hit album. But as many other Egyptians stated, when an “American” artist comes to Egypt, you just go! So we did as the Egyptians did, and just went! We show up at 7:30pm to a crowd of extremely underage children with their botox-ed mothers and 60 year-old fathers. The majority of the people in the VIP were like 8! There is no way in hell that my mother would have taken me to an Akon concert when I was that age to listen to songs about sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll!!
Anyways, after about 1 hour of lame DJs, we feel a huge rumble and crash on our VIP stage…the front of the stage where all the kids had congregated had collapsed.

It wasn’t a serious fall, but we were all kinda freaking out. During the chaos, we moved our way to the ultra-VIP section on the other side of the stage. And as we were walking…the second VIP stage falls. At this point we decided to go on the ultra-VIP stage anyways and take our chances like idiots. We waited until 12:30 for Akon to come, never would we have waited this long in the states, ever! The concert was quite good and we were sooo close to his stage (which never collapsed). We realized that our stage would probably fall next, so we jumped off and stood literally 2 feet from Akon’s stage. And 1 minute later, our stage falls; Cairo needs to get GT civil engineers to properly construct some stages!!
We had a great time though, and it was really cool to see all the Senegal pride in the crowd (Akon is from Senegal). But it really was such a change from how a concert like this would have gone in America. For example, it was just wayyyy too easy for me to walk backstage, and I did lol. And people would be suing left and right if their child had fallen when the stage collapsed. Now that I think about it, I don’t even believe the concert would have happened if the stages fell! Good times nonetheless!

I decided to go desert camping this weekend. Anyone who knows me well knows that I HATE camping. But I decided that there is nothing really in the desert that can hurt me so I thought it might be a fun weekend trip.