Set

This post is for all my friends and classmates and other people my age who live in Wisconsin. This is for you to be jealous, no offense. Unless you have been to South America you have not been to a real club.
I went to a club called Set. It's super fancy. I'm told that Set is very popular in Santa Cruz. Ever since I. got here everyone has been telling me I need to go to Set. I was invited by a girl who goes to my school, or used to, she graduated this year. I in turn invited two girls who are exchange students in Santa Cruz, both named Emily. The Emily from New York came with me. We tried to dress Bolivian fancy, we really did, but we ended up dressing American fancy, which is not as fancy. We are pardoned because we are exchange students. We got there and got in free after telling the scary looking guard guy the password to our table. After that we sat around couches outside while a girl collected money to pay for a table inside. We hung out met people, saw other exchange students from Belgium  and France, I introduced Emily to all the girls from my school. When we were ready to go in, we stood in line, paid, got our Smirnoff wristbands and entered the ominous, pulsing cave that was Set. The music hit us before we got through the door, the lights hit us just after we stepped inside. All the lights, the sounds, the smells were too much to handle, we stood there in shock for 2.5 seconds before being grabbed and whisked into the throbbing crowd of dancers. We walked past the private tables where women with too short skirts danced on tables and guys with striped button downs watched them with eyes like hawks on prey. We were escorted to a private table and we sat down, waiting for someone to tell us what to do next. Eventually the other exchange students came in so we went to dance with them. We danced, we laughed, we met new people, we drank fancy virgin cocktails, we generally had an incredible time. On our way back from the bathroom we were encountered by a group of people who yelled "HEY EMILY AND HAILEY!!" We felt bad because we didn't recognize these people, but apparently they knew us so we went with them back to their table and dance on the couches and tables. Then, all the lights stopped flashing and the music was reduced to a slow bass pounding and everyone stopped dancing and looked towards the stage, I asked the boy next to me what was going on and all he said was "This is Set" then the music started getting faster, the lights slowly began flickering again, the music got louder and louder until it stopped the lights stopped and everyone in the club yelled "THIS IS SET! YAAA!!" And the smoke machines burst and the lights went crazy and the techno music was louder than ever and everyone was dancing like crazy. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
The whole club is Purple, Pink and Blue themed. All the lights are purple and pink and the walls, floors, ceiling and furniture is all black and white.
After a while we had to go it was getting late. We said goodbye to our new old friends, our exchange friends, and all the girls from my school. We went outside, onto the patio ares, past the scary huge security guard with the velvet rope, onto the sidewalk and into a taxi which took us to our homes where we slept like babies.

So that's my Bolivian discoteca club story.