Exit Fest and Serbia

I got to my hostel which was just a college dorm and was put in a room with just one other roomate. A 20 year old in the German Military named Toby. Toby was quiet and a nice kid. I didnt meet him till we walked in at the same time at 7am the next morning. I put my stuff down and went to the festival to get my wrist band. I got there super early and while the sun was going down. The Fort was like something out of a Fairytale. I got my wristband and drank some Rakija (homemade alcohol with a honey or fruity taste and usually between 40 and 50 percent alcohol) and beer on the streets before i went in. Serbia has some of the hottest girls ever. It is also super cheap and the weather is beautiful. Last but not least they throw one helluva crazy festival. The first night was insane. the lineup was nuts and the venue made it even crazier. the dance arena are is in the moat, and the sound bounces off the brick wall and its soooo loud. There mustve been like 20,000 people there the first night in just that one area. The festival had 11 different stages all around the fort. I spent most of my time at the Dance Arena stage because it was my type of scene. The first night was Chromeo, Crookers, ______, and Boyz Noize. They played till 6:30 am and then Blakc Rose came on. I was there till about 7am. The sun rose during Boyz Noize and it was insane. While dancing i met a group of British girls that had a no boys rule. That changed quickly. I hung out with them for the night and danced my face off. Friday i went to the beach and hung out with the rest of the people who said "no sleeping at EXIT". The night was more of a techno type set and i wasnt as interested in it. I walked around and saw some other stages and stayed out till after the sun came up again. Went back to the beahc the next day whihc had a series of djs playing across it. I hit up the Tent village which was a party in itself and then went back to Exit. Saturday night was the best lineup of Laidback Luke, David Guetta, and Dirty South till 6:30 am again. We got there early and claimed great real estate in the stand over looking the whole pit area. There mustve been 40 or maybe even 50,000 people there going nuts. Laidback Luke was the best and i lost my voice half way through Guetta. During Guetta the sun came up and we had an amazing sun rise as the back drop to the fortress and the stage. The whole crowd stayed till about 5:30 am and then it got a little less packed. We left at 7 again and my calves are killing me from jumping up and down. It was an incredible night/weekend. I left Sunday afternoon to go to Belgrade for the night and next day. There was no where to stay on the night of the 12th in Belgrade because the festival ended then and everybody went to Belgrade to fly out. I had only 1 night to enjoy it, but i think i will be back soon. I found my hostel which was a great one, and put my stuff down. I did some exploring and visited some of the places i know about through recommendations of a friend of a friend and enjyo the history of Serbia and its buildings, some still torn apart from the war in the late 90's. It was crazy to see a building half blown up still like that. I checked my fbook and found out that my family friend/SAT tutor was in Belgrade at the same time and was staying with a local. I got his number and met them after the Spain game (my adopted team ever since my year in Spain) (Yesssss Va Por Elllos, illa illa illa Villa maravillaa. si si si). We went to the Communist bar but it was closed to we ended up drinking at a local karaoke bar instead. It was pretty cool and i couldnt read any of the words to any of the songs because it was all in Serbian but the girls were cute, the people were friendly, and the beer was cheap. We hung out there for a while and some Serb tried to buy the Spain jersey i was wearing, offering me the equivalent of about 50 bucks for it. Neverrrr. Its sentimental now. I went to the World Cup, supported Spain, went to 4 of their games, and they won for the first time in history. Amazing. Having just come from Exit i wanted to party again till 7am but there was nothing left open on a sunday at 3am and as soon as i hit the pillow i was out. I had gotten barely any sleep in the past 4 nights. I woke up at 11:58am and checked out of my hostel. The let me sleep in the common room on a bean bag for another 3-4 hours. I met back up with David and had a beer and watch the girlies walk up and down the pedestrian street. I had a 10pm bus to Budva, Montenegro which i made with time to spare and am sitting here writing this right now. I have about 10 hours left of my bus so time to recoop some of that sleep. Budva, Montenegro in the AM.