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" \nI&amp;#039;ve always planned to travel to far off places and see the world, but I thought it would be when I was 30. Yet, here I am at 18, traveling overseas to Europe.  My good friend Morgan came with me on the trip. Germany was our first stop. I was in complete amazement at the beautiful architecture and history. My great grandma was from a town in Alsace on the French border called Nothweiler. We have some family history in a small town between Mannheim and Strasburg. We spent the first couple of days exploring Munich. I ordered bratwurst and potatoes at a restaurant and was initially scared to death to try it, but it was so good. We also went to Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Hamburg for a ton of radio interviews and a photo shoot.  When we got to Berlin my mind was still trying to take everything in. One difficult thing about traveling is that I see most everything through car windows. Imagine my pain when we passed the Berlin Wall and were not able to stop, or when we drove through the countryside but weren&amp;#039;t able to take a break and enjoy the sun. It&amp;#039;s all in a day&amp;#039;s work. I know eventually when I go back, I&amp;#039;ll take a few days off so I can spend some time exploring. I did a show in Berlin called NRJ in the Park. It was the coolest venue I&amp;#039;ve ever performed at! The stage was literally on water. The catwalk went from the stage to the beach, and the people were standing in the water at the sides of the stage!! It was awesome. The headliner was Leona Lewis. It&amp;#039;s great to have competition, and it&amp;#039;s even better that I can respect her. Her voice is killer. I was standing there with my jaw on the floor. We left Germany and headed for London. I was super excited to go to England, because I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to go and their signs are in English. It rained the whole time we were in London, but I thought it made the city even more beautiful. When we first arrived, we went to the Tower of London. That was a lot of fun. The history. The death. The jewels. HOLY CRAP! I loved it. The next few days were work work work. I did get to pass some great sights--Big Ben, London Bridge, Westmister Abby and Buckingham Palace. We knew The Queen was there because the flag was raised. I also went to the humongous Nike store and designed some new dunks, and went shopping at Topshop. It was torture because there were so many floors and I only had an hour!  After London we drove to Manchester where I did a acoustic radio show. The next morning we flew to Vienna, Austria. I&amp;#039;ve never seen a city where all the buildings are the same size. It tripped me out. That night the whole crew went out to dinner at an Italian restaurant in Vienna. I had strawberry shortcake for dessert. It was the bomb. The next day was another concert in the park. N.E.R.D. and Sean Kingston were on the line-up. I got to meet Pharrell, who was really cool, calm and collected. It would be neat to work with him. I got to perform six songs and the response was great. The fact that people know my music in places I&amp;#039;ve never been is another new and amazing feeling. It&amp;#039;s only gonna get better! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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