An unexpected Friday.

   FRIDAY! I survived my first week at uni without getting lost, missing class, or getting beat up by the big kids! I’m starting to like going to a big school in a big city.

   This afternoon, I was part of a freeze mob! It’s like a flash mob, but you just stand still. The group Generation Zero put it on to demonstrate the move away from fossil fuels. How cool! We even got on the news!!

MY FREE TICKET!!!

   OH. MY. GOD. Friday just kept getting better! I was sitting in my room yesterday evening, and I had no plans for the night. I knew Ed Sheeran was playing at the TSB Arena downtown, so I decided to take a walk down to see if I could hear anything from the outside. I could. I listened to the opening act, Passenger, for a while (so good!).

   As I was standing around outside the arena, a man came up to me and asked if I wanted to buy a ticket to go in. The way he said it made him sound like security or something, so I fibbed and told him I was waiting for someone. About 20 minutes later, the same man comes up to me again, and says he had two tickets, but his wife was very sick, and they were going home. He said he gave one away already, and had one left. He wanted me to have it. For free. I thanked him a million times, waved to his wife in the car, and wished them well. In I went!

   I can’t even describe the things that were running through my head, or how I felt. It was so amazing! I thought for sure I would get stopped on the way in because the ticket was fake. I got in though, and headed to my seat in the nosebleeds. The arena was small enough that even the nosebleeds weren’t too far away though. I was seriously speechless at this point, and I couldn’t stop smiling!

   The girl sitting next to me was on the phone when I sat down, telling her friend about how she got a free ticket. She was the other one! We chatted instantly, and throughout the night. I rocked out to Ed Sheeran with a stranger and it was so much fun! He was an awesome performer, and the whole show was spectacular. I am SO lucky.

   After the show, the stranger Carlie and I walked around downtown for a while and eventually went to a quaint little place called Boon Brothers. We got a fancy crumpet to celebrate our luck. I guess we were both just in the right place at the right time.

   The guy that gave me the ticket reminded me how awesome people can be. He just lost $200 by not going to the show, and he was just giving tickets away. I'm so grateful. He definitely has good things coming his way!