This has to be one of the most educational experiences that I have ever had in my entire life.465Please respect copyright.PENANAp7CzkQxssn
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I've been to many parties/raves/carnivals in my life— Carnival almost every year since childhood, Lush, VSOP, Back to Basics, Scorch as a teenager, UWI Carnival as a UWI student, and Dream Weekend, Plush at Club Privilege and just this summer, EDX as an adult. I've been going to Major Lazer concert ever since my first one in January, 2013. Hell, I even go to taboo sometimes, but I have never been to anything like this.465Please respect copyright.PENANAjzS31exsmf
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I'm at an 18 and over water party. Apparently, for this particular party, "water" entails that women in bath suits, or anything revealing wrestle each other in a blow up pool, while everyone else cheers, screens, etc.465Please respect copyright.PENANAVDuUGhUMcG
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Of course, there's always that one man on the microphone screaming and shouting that you'd think that the speaker is right beside you.465Please respect copyright.PENANAifV8CuynQi
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For some reason, in all the street dance videos, they always. Sound. The. Same.465Please respect copyright.PENANABbSXN44IUk
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Even though this man's voice is no different from the others, this is definitely not a street dance.465Please respect copyright.PENANAHvRQXpvtEk
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I hold up my camera and take a picture as one woman pushes the other over the side of the pool, into the mud created from the water splashing over the side of the pool.465Please respect copyright.PENANAVnWtDw0tBt
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I cannot believe that I am actually being paid to photograph this.465Please respect copyright.PENANARYbY4gdM3r
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I continue to snap pictures of women wrestling to the soundtrack of Vybz Kartel, Spice, Aidonia, Alkaline, Macka Diamond, and even Kerwin Du Bois.465Please respect copyright.PENANACHjjacvo69
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I am absolutely fascinated by the scene in front of me. So fascinated, that I don't realise that someone is standing right beside me.465Please respect copyright.PENANAmRedo0Z5AE
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"Do you regularly come to this kind of event?"465Please respect copyright.PENANAxcBT0VQ6z0
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I immediately recognise his voice.465Please respect copyright.PENANAXHNh8NVoOn
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"Are you stalking me, Mr Rochester?"465Please respect copyright.PENANARSQlEUeS5m
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His lips raise into a smirk.465Please respect copyright.PENANAehyjHDKXhb
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"I simply came to observe you work."465Please respect copyright.PENANAQrXhjyV7lX
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"How did you find me?"465Please respect copyright.PENANA48YdUUVkM8
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"It's a small country."465Please respect copyright.PENANA50CVLi48TI
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For some reason, I'm not bothered by the fact that he's stalking me. It seems totally in character for him, and I don't feel threatened by it. I actually feel better, having someone even a little bit familiar in such a foreign place.465Please respect copyright.PENANA58hu3M0lAV
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We stand there in silence for a few more seconds, watching as a new pair of girls enter the pool and square up.465Please respect copyright.PENANAlP3eoGFouZ
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"Listen. I just want you to know... that if you ever need anything, you can call me."465Please respect copyright.PENANAINhYXyeZEJ
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I look at him for a few seconds, trying to decipher whether or not he's joking.465Please respect copyright.PENANAJpEXboxd75
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He's dead serious.465Please respect copyright.PENANAgGyt8NN7FB
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"I will," I tell him, hoping that I'll never actually need to call him.465Please respect copyright.PENANAuFzJy94QZW
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I look back at the scene in front of me just in time to capture a picture of the pool bursting and both women falling.465Please respect copyright.PENANAdMACHbAd5J
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Im driving back to my once again, well lit apartment exhausted, grateful that I finally got a chance to pay the light bill today.465Please respect copyright.PENANAu3vC1in3l0
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I I expect to be able go straight to bed— just plop into my tattered, probably 20 thread count sheets and drop asleep.465Please respect copyright.PENANAeYvUnrRQ1K
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I just can't wait, really.465Please respect copyright.PENANAnLf9m88D8g
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But once I park my car, enter the building and make my way to my room, it becomes very clear that something is wrong.465Please respect copyright.PENANAowQ93GQs0r
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There is water coming from my apartment.465Please respect copyright.PENANA2HYX2aZlcN
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I don't want to do this right now, don't want to face this right now. But I open my door, and greet the sight on the other side of the door — which just happens to be my apartment flooded.465Please respect copyright.PENANAuGeQapzQX4
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It's everywhere — the kitchen, my living room, my fucking bedroom.465Please respect copyright.PENANAPRgZZcbgVN
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I'd left a Rihanna poster on the floor in my bedroom; I must be a sucker for punishment, because I'm staring at it, the remainder of the poster lying on the floor, my idols face distorted by the water causing the ink to run.465Please respect copyright.PENANA0IDrtOLrDl
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I feel anger directed at no one in particular rising in my chest, and I know exactly what's happening; my neighbour from above has a leak which has decided to flood out my apartment. Again. After she told me465Please respect copyright.PENANAs5J5TYiwU1
That the plumber said that it'd been fixed for sure. And I really don't want to go over to Marcus's because of the fight he and I had yesterday.465Please respect copyright.PENANAGAytGEf2jw
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So I pull out my phone and call a number I never thought I'd dial.465Please respect copyright.PENANAnskVufZAP7
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"Leah."465Please respect copyright.PENANAfskRYR6pB7
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"Hi, David. Can I come over? I need a place to stay."
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