Well what a week!

Glastonbury was absolutely fantastic. It was like being in an alternative universe. There is no vanity, no selfishness, no violence, no nothing. Maybe that was something to do with the constant weed smell in the air haha?

I have returned feeling very tired but very refreshed. My faith in the world has perhaps returned again to where it should be.

I discovered a new singer: Regina Spektor. I've heard of her before but seeing her live just did it for me. I've got a bunch of her songs now and I've had them on repeat. I also saw Newton Faulkner (who was brilliant and very funny) and a band called the Bombay Bicycle Club, who I've never heard of before but were amazing live.

The toilets though... the toilets. Nothing could have possibly prepared me for the toilets. Ok, I actually came up with a mathamatical equation of what the toilets were like:

180,000 people + lots of curry = the Glastonbury portaloos.

Oh yes.

They also had something called the "longdrop". The longdrop was a series of cubicles in a row with a large space beneath the door to let people know which ones were vacant. Inside was a piece of wood with a hole in the middle. If you look down the hole then you see a ten foot drop down to everyones lovely waste below. I heard one woman dropped her phone down there... poor thing!

I got a bad stomach when I was there, which was pretty irritating but luckily it didn't hold me back too much. I also went crazy on day two because I really wanted some space but there were 180,000 people in the way haha. I can't believe it's over. I'm desperate to get back there again. I did have to go four days without a shower though. Ew.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2009/artists/reginaspektor/index.shtml#emp
(Regina Spektor. Scroll down to watch the highlights).