• Edited : 26-12-2016 •

~Jasmin

It's May 14 2016. Today, my dad and I are flying to Barcelona, Spain. The Grand Prix of Spain is being held there this weekend. Today is the qualiying and the race is tomorrow. I'm super excited. I couldn't sleep last night, because of everything going on in my head.

I'm going to see the Formula 1 race. It's so weird to be able to say that. It's also weird, knowning in a few hours, I'll be sitting at the circuit and the cars will be driving in front of me.

I'm a nerd about this, I know. My friends all think I'm weird for loving Formula 1 this much. They are getting annoyed by my obsession.

It got even worse when Max Verstappen started driving in the Formula 1. He's Dutch, I'm Dutch. He's cute. You get it.

Anyway, my dad and I are at the Amsterdam Airport, waiting to board our plane to Barcelona. I'm sitting on a chair with my Starbucks cup, which is filled with Caramel Macciato, on my phone, checking Instagram and all. I see that Max Verstappen posted something on his page.

maxverstappen1 : Qualifying day. Excited to push myself and the car to the limit. #keeppushing #SpanishGP

I smile and like his picture. Our flight is being called to board. I lock my phone after putting it to Airplane mode and board the plane with my dad. In the plane, I put in my earplugs and listen to some music while the plane takes off to Barcelona.

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5 hours later and we have finally arrived at the circuit. We're at our seats and the qualifying is starting in a few minutes. I keep on looking around me, all excited and wanting to take everything in.

After a few minutes, I hear the cars coming and the first ones are on the track, driving their out lap. Soon, the first times are being set and all the cars are on the track. I spot the Red Bull Racing car of Max Verstappen easily and follow it all the time.

After all the rounds, Lewis Hamilton has the pole position, followed by Nico Rosberg, Daniel Ricciardo, who also drives for Red Bull Racing, and at 4th place is Max Verstappen. After him come the Ferrari's, Valtteri Bottas, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso.

The qualifying was amazing to watch. The cars are going so much faster than you expect when you watch it on TV. And the noise the cars make, unbelievable. I'm super excited for the race tomorrow, maybe even more than I was excited for today.

My dad and I take a cab back to the hotel and have some chill time. We've been to Barcelona a few times before, so we don't really want to do a lot of sighseeing.

We also decided to stay and have dinner in our hotel, as we're tired from getting up early this morning. After both having a shower, and me putting on my full face of make-up, we're both ready to go have dinner.

We get downstairs and sit down at a table. We both have some wine, as I'm 18 and legal to drink. My dad has a steak and I have some chicken with fries. After the main course, we want to stay for coffee and ice cream, but I decide to go the the bathroom before. I follow the signs. I have to turn a cornor and before I know it, I collapse into someone and hit the ground within a few seconds.

"Oh god, I'm so sorry" I hear a male voice say. I look up and look right into the eyes of Max Verstappen.

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Sorry this is so short, I wanted to just have a beginning. Also, I'm sorry for how bad this is...

It'll get better, I hope..

xxxx <3