Bonnaroo Memoir Essay

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Bad News Bonnaroo I vividly remember waking up at 8:18 AM. I was already perspiring a tad, and I would've estimated a temperature of 96 degrees or so. I walk out of my tent, and realize I'm the first up. I immediately wonder how Austin is. I grab a water and lie on the cot inside of our Canopy, and I sit there patiently for a few minutes until my fellow campers wake up. My friend Jay is the first of my friends to wake up, and he walks out of his tent wondering exactly what I first wondered. He asks, "Where is Austin at?" I respond with a question of my own, "Did he stay here or at his campsite?" He answered," When I fell asleep he was on the cot that you are on, and that was at about 3:30 in the morning." This automatically causes me to panic due to the fact that Austin was in the medical tent for most of the night from eating too many poopy mushrooms and hanging out with Molly too much. It was the second night of Bonnaroo, a Friday night. Specifically, it was a night filled with top headliners such as: My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire, Big Boi, Ratatat, Pretty Lights, Lil Wayne and Bassnectar. The night started off the same as the night before with us getting medicated and walking to Centeroo to have a supreme time. We were at the Main stage watching a band I had never heard before, and it was shocking how great My Morning Jacket actually was. It was getting towards the end of the show when we got a phone call from a friend, Will. I knew something was wrong, because I overheard the word "seizures." I asked the person who received the call from Will, Kaitie, "What was going on?" She gave me a terrible answer, "We are going to have to find Austin and get him to the nearest medical tent." I automatically grab a few people and start leading the march through, over, under, and around 30,000 people. We had to hold hands to stay together while moving through the

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