Up ALL NIGHT TO THe BEST SONG EVER lori garcia With the help of 50,000 crazy fans, Harry Styles, Niall eliana jaime Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson made local history. Beating U2, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones, the “Where We Are” tour attracted the largest by luisa herrera concert crowd the Sun Bowl has ever seen. lori garcia “If I had a chance to go on stage, I would cry, hug all of them, he couldn’t stand it anymore. my hands, I started learning their songs. take photos and Sophomore Ryann Parham had My friend had an app on her phone probably say it was some big news and had to tell that counted down the days. That’s how my birthday, so they someone. That someone would excited we were. The day of the concert I would sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to me.” Sbe her best friend. A week before, wish I could have missed school to try and -gabriela pivetta-10 her father, a UTEP employee, told her that meet the guys, but I had a lot of tests.” One Direction was coming to El Paso, but The day of the concert the attendance she had to keep it a secret. office phones lit up. 46 students’ parents “My friend started sobbing,” Parham called in sick for their kids, and another 49 said. “All you could hear was, ‘Mom, Mom! left school early to prepare. Among those One Direction is coming to El Paso,’ and absent was junior Amanda Rosskopf. She her mom saying, ‘Aye aye. You’re lying, arrived early, about 8, to the Sun Bowl and they aren’t coming.’ I had to get my dad on stood alongside other “Directioners” also the phone and have him prove that they hoping to catch a glimpse of Harry, Niall, “My mom wanted me were. It was all really funny. ” Liam, Louis and Zayn. to take my cousin, and I In November, the rumors were “I started getting ready three hours am glad I did. This was confirmed by the El Paso Times. The before the concert,” Rosskopf said. our first concert, and I British boy band One Direction was “The whole night had to be perfect. My am glad we were able to once-in- a-lifetime dream was finally LOUIS experience it together.” performing at the Sun Bowl, Sept. 19. HARRY -audrina rosales- Tickets went on sale in December, almost happening. I took hours straightening my streeter-10 10 months before the concert. Like many hair and created two different shirts, one fans, sophomore Alejandra Esquivel for 5 Seconds of Summer and the other NIALL ordered her tickets the first day they went for One Direction. When the first band LIAM on sale. After waiting a month for them, finished, I ran to the restroom to change they still had not arrived. before anyone else got there. I didn’t “I got worried and scared,” Esquivel want to miss seeing One Direction take said. “Then, Christmas came and my mom the stage. When the lights went off and ZAYN said Santa had brought me a present. I the introductory video started playing, screamed because I couldn’t contain my my heart just stopped. It was a dream excitement. Now that the tickets were in come true. I wanted to cry.”

“My favorite song is probably ‘Kiss You,’ but I liked it when the concert got emotional, and they sang ‘You & I.’ It made me tear up.” alekka hernandez -marcela de la torre-9

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