(This project is based on a life experience in a written paragraph that I eventually turned into a Sway present)
As the lights on the stage disappeared people started screaming from excitement like they had just won the lottery. All of a sudden there was a flash of a bright white light so bright you had to look away. My friend and I glanced at each other in excitement because we knew that the time that we had been waiting for had finally arrived. Then they showed up on stage standing in front of a humongous O and W symbolizing the band name, Oh Wonder. There was the smell of hotdogs and hamburgers in the air wafting all around Malkin bowl. Then they started playing and the background lit up the blue of the ocean with fog as if the stage was on fire. I could taste the dust and dirt off the ground as people stood up to get a better view and move closer to the stage. I felt the rough but soft texture of the beach towel my friend and I had been sitting on leave my hands as I stood so I could take in all of the sights. I looked over to my friend and saw her smiling as bright as the sun on a summer day. I then looked around the crowd to see everyone dancing and waving their arms as if no one was watching. There was so much excitement that you could even feel it in the air. There was so much excitement it was as if it were a contagious disease that was spreading to everyone at the concert. It was like waiting for your favourite ride at a carnival or fair when you’re a little kid because you can hardly wait for it to start and when it ends you’re so happy but so sad. Gradually as it got later and later into the night the sun disappeared and the stage lit up even brighter. The O and W had changed colour so often and so fast it had started becoming a rainbow. I could taste the tanginess of Mrs. Vickies salt and vinegar chips that I had eaten just a little while before the concert. There was cheering and laughter that was as clear as the blue sky on a bright and warm summer day. It got later into the night and the colours got even more vibrant and the music got even louder. They then played a song that they had never played anywhere else in the world and brought out one of the singers brothers to play the saxophone for it. The band played song after song like they couldn’t stop because if they did it would mean that they could never return to Vancouver. It started getting down to the last few songs but people only got more and more excited. I once again looked around and could see everyone singing the words to the songs as if they had been the ones to create it so they knew the words from heart. One of the strongest things I could smell at that time was sweat because everyone had been dancing and singing. They played my favourite song then which is a song called technicolor beat. The lights were fading and coming back on to the beat of the song. The O and W changed from the silver of a ring to the deep purple of a flower to the blue of the sky then to the orange of the burning sun. They left the stage and people started cheering even louder as if they were at a football game so they would get them to come back on. They came back on for the encore and played a song called ultralife because that’s what tour they were doing. The background of the stage started changing colours and even became a huge splash of every colour you could imagine. It looked as if the colours were dancing because they went from side to side and up and down. They then played drive which was the final song of the night. It was the wildest one because it was as if everyone knew that it would be the last song that they would play that night. It felt as if it were the loudest song that night. It ended almost the opposite way that it had started, with a huge final flash of colour and light and then darkness. My friend and I cheered and screamed along with everyone else to say thank you to Oh Wonder. We started to walk out of Malkin bowl to find My friends mom to drive us home. We could hear everyone talking about how amazing and fun it was. As we made the way back to Poco from Stanley park we talked about how brilliant the colours, the songs, and music was. It felt as if we were young and talking about our favourite things. Her mom then dropped me off at my house and I went inside and all of a sudden the night was over.