I Want to Rock and Roll...

I want to rock and roll all night,
And party every day.

-KISS
Last night, Emily and I wanted to go to Onnela, a disco in downtown Oulu. I soon discovered that, on Friday and Saturday nights, one must be 22 years of age to gain entry to that club. So...

Last night, Emily and I went to 45 Special, a local rock club in downtown Oulu. We biked 6 km downtown at 10pm with the hopes of making the "free before 11pm" entrance. Well, we were wrong. For some reason, on weekends, one cannot enter for free before 11. One must pay 5 euros. We did and entered. We went over to the stairs on the right to go down to the rock room. Roped off. Upstairs? Roped off. Ask the bartender. Dance floors open at 11. We buy a drink and sit down to chat for half an hour.

Once opened, we venture go downstairs to the rock room. We are the first people inside. We stay here for around an hour just chatting and listening to good rock music. We then decide to go upstairs to a room with a little more...pep. Everyone is dancing provocatively to awful hip-hop music. Emily and I begin dancing with some French people we met (the guy danced like he was on some kind of drugs) and Emanuel, my German friend. Alexandre, the French guy, was actually the first person dancing and that got everyone rolling. The non-stop Hip-Hop music went on for about an hour while we danced and had a good time. We eventually grew wary of this music and decided to venture back downstairs.

Downstairs, people were now gathering around and dancing. The music here was better. Queen, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, etc. We had a lot of fun dancing here and the French people eventually came down to join us and we had a blast. We eventually left at around 1:30am and stopped at an all-night burger kiosk for sandwiches and fries before biking back in the rain and cold, arriving back to campus at about 2:45am. I showered and was in bed by 3.

Good times!

All for now.

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