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Oh the anxiety I had January 6th, 2010 at school. Really? Did teachers expect me to pay attention when in a few hours I’ll be meeting nick and hearing all his new songs. I felt nervous/ tired/ excited/ full of energy. Everything at once. I was a mix of emotions. Yes, I had met Nick before, but this time it was more formal. The last time I met him was at the National Press Club event he had on August 24th, 2009. That was just a handshake and a hello.

Anyway. Once I got out of school, I went home. Got changed & left to start what would become by far the best day of my life. We stopped at a parking lot around shadygrove because that is where my Dad was meeting me and my sister for he could drive us to the metro. Long story short, the wait my dad made me wait while he got there made me even more anxious to just get to DC. While it was just me and my sister, I began to think. This meet and greet meant so much to me. I had been waiting to tell Nick a lot of things that this might be my only opportunity to tell him. Meet & Greets aren’t really easy to win. I’ve waited to win once since summer of 07.

Once we got on the metro, I met a girl who was also going to the Nick Jonas & The Administration concert. The metro for me is a time to think, to relax and attempt to clear my head. That’s why I insisted on my dad letting me and my sister ride the metro. I plugged in my headphones and lost myself in my thoughts until we got to Metro Center.

We started to walk to Warner Theater, only about a block away. But, sweet baby jesus, that walk felt like an eternity. I was wearing a dress, and tights. I was freezing. Once we entered the theater, I saw Catherine & Megan. Two other Jonas fans that I’ve become friends over time since I see them at most concerts I go to. Megan also had meet & greet and I was glad. She hadn’t met them before so it felt like she and I got each other because well I was nervous/ excited as anything.
After a few minutes, I see Hibah and her mom. Who were also attending the concert. Talked to them for a bit, and after all the confusion of picking up my tickets and my meet and greet pass, we start to wait. Just talking , attempting to calm my excitement. As time went on, more people showed up & eventually the little space that was available became way too crowded. They kicked everyone and sent us out side. Into the cold. I couldn’t stop shaking, and eventually they let the M&G winners in. THANK GOD! I was the 1st in the line to go in, and well I always like to be 1st, so I didn’t so much mind. After waiting, they checked out ticket, and let us go inside. We pass the merch stand, the table to pre-order the NJ&TA CD who was being run by Janice & Kat. We waited by the curtain, and you could kind of see the stage. They let us go into the theater, and it looked beautiful. WAY different than a venue. They take us into a white hallway and make us wait for about 30 minutes there. I met a girl who met nick earlier. Me megan and her talked for a bit. They started letting people into the theater. I saw my sister sitting down on our seats, damn we were close to the stage.

After the wait is over, they let a group of 4 kids go in 1st, then its my turn to meet Nick Jonas. I was actually not nervous. Just more excited. I walk into the room. I see Nick standing in front of a black curtain.

“Hey” – Nick
“Heyy, Nick” – Me I set my stuff down on the side.
“Thank you for coming. The show is going to be different.” – Nick & we hug.
“Oh, I’m sure its going to be great.” – Me. Turn to the camera, smile. SNAP
“Well thank you for coming again.” – Nick. We hug again.
“No problem. Thank you again for everything.” Grab my stuff.
“My pleasure.” – Nick.
“Your sound sick” – Me *confused stare from Nick. “Your voice, it sounds different.” In the inside of my head im just hating myself in that moment. Really Ana? Out of all things you wanted to ssay to him that was the 1st thing that popped into your head.
“Oh, just a bit. It’s the tea im drinking.” – Nick, looks over to the cup of tea on the table.
“Oh well thanks again.” – Me

I left the room, and start walking to the stage, and well I started crying. I have no clue why. I just did. I don’t know if it was because I didn’t say the things I wanted to say to him, because it was short, because I set my expectations too high, because I forgot to give him my letter, because it was over, or because I had after all those years of waiting to talk to him, I finally did. Either way, I cried. I walked infront of the stage. Walked 8 rows back & see my sister. I tell her everything that happened, of course im still crying, and the girls behind us are also listening. I didn’t really mind.

A few of my friends that were also at the concert as me about how it went. I tell them, explain my humiliation I felt. WE take pictures at the stage, and then we just relax. I go get a drink, I hadn’t eaten or drank anything since lunch. To be honest, I was too nervous to eat.

I go back to my seat, I got with hibah and her mom to talk to them for a bit. I re-tell my m&g story to them and the girls sitting next to them. They were so sweet too. One of the girls, showed me her meet & greet from the burning up tour to tell me that it couldn’t have turned out worse. I thought her picture was perfect, but according to her it wasn’t. Anyway, I go back to see the merch and what not. Take a picture with Janice. Go back inside. Take my seat.

Diane Birch takes the stage. She was good. I’m not into that time of music, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know good when I see good. It was good opening act, it was relaxing just being able to sit down and watch her perform. I don’t think I have ever sat down for any concert I’ve been to. So this was a nice change.

Intermission came, I went over to talk to Hibah again. Went back to my seat once the show was about to start. I scream at the top of my lungs when Nick comes out. His new songs were so different from the Jonas Brothers sound. He played Inseparable from the 1st CD that they had with Hollywood records, and well, I just lost it right there. That song was played differently, slowly. It felt more heartfelt, and I also cried because it took me back to when I 1st became a fan and that song being played non stop and to see where they have gone. It was a feeling that I can’t even explain.
He played other songs that I won’t listen to until the CD comes out. I can wait until Feb 2nd. It’ll be hard but worth it in the end.

He also played a few covers including, The way you make me feel – MJ (<- the only song he danced at Kevin’s wedding.) , Fireflies – Owl City (<- he finally got the lyrics right), Use somebody – Kings of Leon (<- wow! I was left speechless. That song is personal to me and his cover touched me like no ther cover ever has.) He also did a cover by Stevie Wonder called Signed, Sealed, & Delivered (I’m Yours) – Amazing cover of the song.

He played Before The Storm. I love how he would stop singing during the parts that Miley sang and the audience would sing. He did that in a few songs and wow! I love when artist do that. Our voices become one.

He did 2 more songs from Jonas Brothers CD – Black Keys and A Little Bit Longer – and his speech on the piano was incredible. Wow. “2010, the year of no fear.” This one might be a little harder to follow. Living in fear? How can I do that when I’m scared about the future. “Nothing is set in stone” – Nick Jonas.

He sang Rose Garden, One of his song. It was amazing. I love that song. Ever since I heard it a month ago, I knew it would become one of my favorites. He did one more Jonas Brothers song, Tonight, and wow. It sounds so different the way he played it. He did the thing with the audience where we sing a part of it. One of the songs he played, he wrote it the night before (January 5th) and played it for us (January 6th) It was incredible being the 1st fans to hear the song. The song is called “Stay” and I loved everything about that song. The emotion he put into the song, the lyrics, everything. It was incredible. He also sang a song called “Stronger”, and his speech about the song was that sometimes in life we need someone to keep our feet on the ground. (Something along those lines.) Everyone started pointing to him. He does this to us. He makes us stronger in so many ways.

The concert soon ended, he came back for the encore. Who I Am, everyone sang along. He threw the guitar picks into the audience and I got one after looking for it on the floor. He left. And that concluded my night.

Lunch with Nick Jonas (Aug. 24th, 2009)

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Waking up at 6 was no day in the park. Very hard.
Me and my sister left the house at 7:45am to catch the train station by my house. Once we were on the train,, I began to ponder what I was going to say to him if I got the chance to meet him.
My hopes were up in meeting him, because I didn’t think there would be that many fan girls there today.

Once we got there, we walked around the building, looked at the entrances to see which entrance we would most likely go through. We walked in, the building has 13 floors, shops around. We go into a store once we noticed that inside the store there were stairs that led to the National Press Club. Me and my sister are thinking that we are like super smart for figuring out a way around the security. Of course that wasn’t the case. The stairs led us to the main desk of the building. Me and my sister decided to act like we know what we are doing. We walk around for about 30 minutes, looking for the Ballroom, I knew that is where the lunch on was going to be.

We notice that there is button inside the elevator that leads to the Press Club floor. (Floor 13) We go up, and once we get off we notice a big picture of Nick. We go to the main desk to talk to the secretary. Trying to find out if she knew which entrance he was going to go through. We knew they wouldn’t sell us tickets unless we were part of the Press Club. She was the sweetest person. She didn’t know which entrance he was going to use, but she told us she was going to try to get us tickets. She told us to hang around and that she would talk to her boss once she got there at 11. I handed her my phone number and me and my sister go back down and walk around the store. Looking at clothes.

We go back outside, since that sotre had like nothing that we were interested in. We see some girls with JB shirts on walking around. At 11, we notice that more and more people are walking into the press club, so we up to the 13th floor. We go to the front desk, and she tells us to hold on. She then signals us to walk over. She was talking to an older looking lady. Her boss (Patty), tells us her name and that if anybody asks we are her guest. The secretary (I forgot to ask her for her name) then hands us the forms to fill out and we pay for the tickets.($32 for both tickets! Very good We go wait in the line where people where already waiting. We had to wait for about an hour. (No problem for any Jonas fan, since most of us have waited a lot longer.) They start to allow people to walk farther down the hall and then into the ballroom. There is this desk set up along the wall that when you pass it, you grab a folder, the A Little Bit Longer Tag, and a Bayer brochure. Nick’s face is all over those things. We then walk into the ballroom, and take our seat. The salad was already in our places. Looked really good, but tasted disgusting. The president of the Club talks us through the rules, and then explains why there are cameras around. There was no screaming allowed, (Thank god, screaming girls annoy me when it’s not a concert.) I go outside to see if there was any way I could meet Nick. I talk to some Bayer people. Pass the Diabetes testing table. (People with diabetes where allowed to take their blood sugar levels there.) Then I meet this weird, but cool dude. I explain to him that I want to get my letter to him, and I want to meet him if possible. He tells me that he will come find me if he finds out anything of meeting him.

I go back to my seat, and I begin to eat my salad. I only pick the strawberries out. The rest tasted gross. The dude that was telling me that he will come find me, taps me on the shoulder and talks really load and says “Give me the letter. I’ll get it to him.” I had him the letter, and he runs towards the table where Nick was going to be sitting. The table was a long table in the front facing the rest of the tables, with a podium in the middle of the 2 tables facing the rest. He hands the stuff to a lady that then runs towards the back. I’m guessing that was were Nick was. There was seccurtiy infront of the door so I didn’t even bother to try to get in.
About 30 minutes later, Nick walks out, Papa Jonas behind him. Everyone begins to clap. He sits down at the table. A lady in between Nick and Papa Jonas. The press club president then does introductions. They bring out the main course. I am like trying to not look at Nick because I wouldn’t like people staring at me when I eat. Of course I occasionally look at him. He was adorable. I saw him stuff a big piece of chicken in his mouth, and then attempt to close it. It was really funny and cute.

I attempted to eat my food, but it was flavor less, and gross. I don’t know how Nick was able to eat his food. After the whole front table finished eating, they begin to take our plates, and people being to re position their chairs in order to be facing the front table. The press club president introduces Nick again, and we applaud him. He then begins his speech. Look at the videos! (http://tinyurl.com/n8sehp)

For the 1st time in a while did I see Nick give a real smile. Everyone was asked to write questions and place the cards in the front desk. After his speech, The press club president asks the question, and he answers them. He did this for about 20 questions. He gives really good answers. We saw him blush when asked if he was dating anyone. Then asked if he would ever date a fan. Then he talked about Kevin and Danielle. He says his goodbyes, and then people begin to walk up to the desk, and I also go up. He is walking down from the podium, and he walks infrot of the fans already there. He walks down the line. He gets to me, and shakes my hand. His eyes are so beautiful. I ask if I can have a picture, and he was already being pulled forward so he turns back and say “Sorry. I’m being pushed.” He goes into the room he had came out of earlier.
We take the elevator down thinking he was going to leave already. We go out side, and WOW! About 30 girls were waiting by the main entrance. We exit and notice about another 20 girls by the parking garage. We see the escalade was parked inside. My sister says she’ll stay out here, and that I should go in and see if I can find him in there. I go up to the main desk of the 13th floor, and the secretary says that he is no longer on this floor. I thank her again for getting me the tickets, and this photographer guy was holding the door for me. He tells me that he knows that he is on either 12th, 11th, or 10th. He is also looking for them. Not to meet him, but to try to find him just for the fun of it. We ride down the elevator. No sign of nick. He tells me that my best bet would be to wait out by the main entrance, or to go the 13th floor, then go right then right again then go straight. I go outside and tell her the options. We decided to go with option 2. We go back to the 13th floor, and go right then right again then straight. We hit a dead end. (great) We go back to where the ballroom was, and we see a staff member. We ask him if he knew where Nick was. He tells me he is no longer on this floor, and to try my luck on the 4th floor. We go back to the elevator, and then we press the 4th floor. We go down and walk towards were we hear voices, and we see PAPA JONAS inside the room. There was a glass door. Someone had told us that Nick would be doing interviews somewhere in the building so we assume that Nick is there. We wait by the wall. So we don’t look like creepers waiting outside the glass door. They can’t see us unless they go out of the room. 2 security people come out and they go past us, but then turn around and asks us if we are allowed to be here. We tell him we are with the event, and he says well you don’t have access to this floor. He then escorts us out of the building. (we got kicked out.) We decided to just wait around with the rest of the fans. We were waiting by the main entrance, then we moved to the parking garage.

They had set up barricades, and security was everywhere. I go to the barricade, and talk to some of the girls waiting there. I tell them about the event since they asked if I had gone inside. We wait around for about an hour. The lunch had ended at 1:47, the escalade finally came out at 3:20ish. Nick rolls down his window, and waves to the fans. Lucky me, I was on the side that he was on. He smiles, and then drives away. Me along other fans chase the car. We cross the street with out looking. I almost get run over. Horns are honking. Nicks escalade had come to a red light. Some of the girls are banging on the window. I’m just staring inside. I see Nick. He such a beautiful boy. Then the car drives away.

That was the end of my experience. I didn’t get to take a picture with him, or get his autograph, but I did get my letter to him. That’s all that matters right?

This brings my Jonas summer to an end. From freaking out when Lines, Vines, and Trying Times came in the mail. To waiting outside the verizon center for 12 hours for the concert. To meeting Mandy, and my summer ties all together with a hand shake from Nick. Can’t wait to see what is the nest Jonas adventure! (: Hopefully meeting Joe and Kevin.

I have now touched Kevin’s, Nick’s, and Frankie’s hand! I touched a Jonas and I liked it.

My Jonas Adventure (July 13,2009)

My Jonas adventure. July 13,2009. Verizon Center. DC.

I get there at 9:30 am. There is almost no one. A few girls walking around, but no one lining up. I eventually find some cool ppl that are also doing what I’m trying to do. Meet Honor Society, Jb’s back up band, and of course the Jonas Brothers.

Loading Dock…I was there for most of my day. Just talking to the crew. Talking to new friends I made there. Around 10:15am…a tour bus with GARBO in it starts up and garbo opens his window and waves to us. Me and some other crazy fans being to chance it. We chase it from 7th and F street all the way to 3rd and Massachusetts. Long run, I would of kept on running, but running on a highway…not for me. Thank god I wore converse. We go back to the Verizon Center. I met this awesome chick, Daphnie, she has a press pass from her school for photography. So we go into the elevator of the Verizon center to just see where we could go with it. We end up getting in front of the actual arena. We turn around cause if someone found us here we would probably be banned from the concert. We go back to the loading dock, and just chill there. At 3:40pm, a big red bus comes up. We all know this bus as Clifford, <- what honor society calls it! There are about 30 fans waiting around the loading dock. They get out of the bus and walk down the center, and they wave, then continue walking. Then Mr. Megaphone (Ned) begins to advertise for the Full Moon Crazy Tour. I wasn’t allowed to go, cause my parents said it was too late. The concert for the Full Moon Crazy tour would start at 11pm, and end at like 12. My parents didn’t want to be up that late.

After a few escalades pull into the loading dock, I head back inside to wait with my sister to go in. Everyone starts to enter the Verizon Center and go out the other door, and so I do the same. Turns out that Honor Society would be playing a free acoustic show. I get up to the front and they move us again to a more secluded corner. We wait for about 30 minutes. Just screaming when ever Mr.Megaphone would ask us to. He was video taping us for a youtube video. Ned AKA as Mr.Megaphone (Micheal from Honor Society gave him that nick name during the Acoustic show) starts to play trivia with us. The 1st question was “When does their CD come out?” Megan, a friend I met on TeamJonas.com, answered that question right. She won 2 tickets for the Full Moon Crazy Tour. The next question was “What is another song name other than See U In The Dark?” and before he can even finish the question I raise my hand, and he calls on me. I say “Where Are You Now.” He says correct and I scream. He asks me what my name is and I stutter a bit then say Ana. I txt my sister to call my parents and tell them that I won 2 tickets, and to see if we could stay. They of course say yes, since I never win anything. After a few more trivia, Honor Society finally comes out. We are all screaming. There are no barricades keeping us back, but we were asked to please not get too close by their management. WE stay in place, and they play a few songs. During the song “Over You” Micheal, lead vocals, is starring straight at me. Im like freaking out. Then after that song is over, he tells me that my shoe is untied. After they finished their songs, they took pictures with us, I got a picture with Andrew 1st, he is so nice. Then I got a picture with Jason. Then I walk over to where Alex, and then I get to Michael. We had to try this a few times. My hands were so shaky and I kept messing up. He was so nice. We made small talk after I got the picture, and he asked me if I was going to the show after the JB show. I ofcourse still had my tickets in my hand and he gave me another hug. He was so happy. They all looked so happy to be meeting their fans. I’m officially even more obsessed with them now than I was before.

I go back inside, and wait until they open the doors to let us in. I start talking to the fans around me. They were so nice, and we begin to sing Jonas songs at the top of our lungs, eventually more ppl join in and it was so cool to know that I was one of the 3 ppl to start this.
After we are let in I start to walk around, buy stuff, get food. Irun to my seat because the show is about to start, and Honor Society comes on stage. They do 3 songs, and then they say their goodbyes, and then run off stage. A few minutes later the act Wondergirls comes on. I finally get to sit down, I don’t really care about them, so I sat down. They showed us how to do a dance for their song “Nobody” and then they perform it, and then they go off. A few minutes later, a guy comes around to give away free stuff. He throws a few shirts into the audience. Then Jordin Sparks comes on. She does a few songs, and im jumping up and down, dancing. After she gets done, another guy comes on and tells us that The Obama girls and Michelle Obama are at the concert, and so everyone starts to freak out. After about 20 minutes of waiting the lights go off, and everyone gets up and starts screaming. Im dancing to every beat, jumping. When Nick says his speech during A Little Bit Longer, I start to cry. He asked us to make a promise for him and that’s what I did. I promise when a curve ball is thrown in my path in life, I will not let it slow me down. After that song, Much Better comes on, and everyone freaks out because of the line “all the tears on her guitar.” I start to laugh at that. Lol They let the instruments run a bit longer, and Joe and Kevin come to the cat walk closest to where I am. And the platform begins to rise, and they grab their foam spray guns and start to spray the crowd. I got sprayed, and it was so much fun. The platform was above me, and they looked adorable. They finish their set, and then they come out to do the encore, and as they are taking their bows, and saying their goodbyes, me and my sister race up the stairs to get out of there and start running to the Full Moon Crazy Tour location. 6th and I , 3 blocks away from where the Verizon center is. A few other girls are also running towards there. Once we get there, there were about 20 ppl already lined up, and once they let us in, I take my seat, in the row. There were no seats assigned. You got them in the order you got there. Mr.Megaphone comes out again with his megaphone and tells us we can stand infront of the stage, and so everyone starts running. I got to be in the 3rd row standing. Once Honor Society comes out, we all start dancing, dancing, jumping, screaming. A few girls spot Garbo, and we also spot Joe and Nick in the balcony. I was there to see Honor Society, so I only glanced up and then kept watching Honor Society perform. Ofcourse everyone was freaking out over Jonas, some ppl where getting pissed that everyone was looking at jonas and not at Honor Society. They perform a few songs, and I occasionally glanced up and saw Joe and Nick rockin’ out. It was so cute. In between a song changes, Jason asks when their CD is coming out, and I scream at the top of my longs and my hand goes up really fast, and he calls on me, and everything is quiet, I scream out “September 15” I glance up and see that nick was looking at me. They finish their set. I can say that the pushing and shoving got on my nerves. Everyone around me was sweaty, hot, and sticky. Yuck, but it was so worth it.

My friend, Catherine, who I also met on TeamJonas.Com, tells me she has an extra ticket to meet Honor Society after the show and she offers it to me. Im like freaking out. Then we line up at the meet and greet line. We wait for about 30 minutes. I sat down on the carpet, and we just chilled there. Honor Society comes out and im the 8th person in line. Once Its my turn, Andrew was like “You are a lot less sweaty now.” The 1st time I met them I was so sweaty cause it was outside, and this was inside. I go up, they take the picture. Jason has his hand around my waist and Im in between Alex and Jason. They take the picture and im leaving and then Alex extends his arms to me and I hug him, then I hug Michael and then Andrew. I didn’t hug Alex this time ): I watch the M&g of my friend. She is the funiest girl ever. She has met HS 8 times, and so she wanted a goofy picture with them. They do a spy pic. http://twitpic.com/ab28v its so funny. i love it. Then I go outside, where my sister is, and shes freaking out because she touched Joe’s muscles. I say bye to Catherine and her Mom, and my parents are on their way to pic me and my sister up. We pass the tour bus once more, and then I get in the car. I explain to my parents how my day went, and how much fun I had. I drink so much water. My voice is now dead. I sound like a dying animal right now. It’s 2:57 now and I just had the coolest convo with Catherine. Honor Society knows my name!!

catherine (2:50:40 AM): did you watch my M&G?
xoanaxbananaxo (2:50:50 AM): yeah!
catherine (2:50:55 AM): haha i was yelling for you like ANA ANA ANA because your clutch
catherine (2:51:05 AM): i go up to michael and he mocks me going ANA! WAIT ANA!
xoanaxbananaxo (2:51:17 AM): i missed that part
xoanaxbananaxo (2:51:18 AM): lol
xoanaxbananaxo (2:53:25 AM): thats so funnny!
catherine (2:53:33 AM): hah yes
catherine (2:53:39 AM): they know my name too lol
xoanaxbananaxo (2:53:45 AM): yeah i saw that part