They say that even the owners of competing clubs showed up at yesterday's party, which spread across two halls at Big Kahuna and Party Block, and watched the scene with their jaws dropped. Rumor has it that about 800 people came to dance. They also say that Anton Ryabov and Regina Nikitina, who won trips to Orlando raffled off by the International Exchange Center, will be traveling separately instead of together, because Regina has a boyfriend who wasn't exactly thrilled about the idea of them going together. One thing I can say for sure: towards the end of the party, around 2 AM, cops in blue shorts and white shirts rolled up, and without even getting off their bikes—the ones they ride in Ocean City—or taking off their bike helmets, they kept the kids who were trying to get back into the club after a smoke break or a breather from returning. Which means the party was a success! Yeah! It started off pretty "slow," as the local workers say, having picked up the jargon from local event owners for whom the season, or maybe their whole life, is divided into two states: slow and busy. Slow is when there are no customers, which means no work for students. For example, like when it rained in June and July and restaurants weren't hiring, claiming it was slow—while our guys sat and waited: when will it finally be busy? And busy arrived: almost everyone is working now. It was the same here. By 12—the golden hour, as we were told, of student party life—everyone had shown up. Even Lyuba, the girl from Tambov we filmed yesterday, came in a pink dress, sparkling with glitter on her face, despite having worked at least 75 hours at Sunshades and Harpoon Hanna's. The guys from the apartment where students from almost all over Russia live, working as lifeguards at Splash Mountain water park, came too. The guys we met at the birthday party I already described also came. In short, everyone came. And they started rocking out, mostly at Party Block to the music of DJ Ben, a red-headed young man who was delivered to us by Alik from the E-Point student center right before the party started: Big Kahuna, where alcohol was sold, only allowed entry with an ID confirming age 21 and up. But Vanya was the one rocking out the most, climbing onto the bar counter to hand out the "elephants"—i.e., the trips to Orlando. That's our entertainer for you. (See photos.)



