Lemon Tree

Originally posted in other blog 5/19/07

Alright, I know I just posted a few hours ago, and it is 3:00 a.m. here, but I had to post about this. So, we got invited out with our Italian neighbor to an international club just by our corridor. We were dying to make some friends, so we thought, "why not." However, this turned out to be a reason for many lessons learned tonight.

Lesson 1: The U.S. needs to teach their kids how to acctually dance. We were so envious because everyone here knows how to salsa. We each were pulled out to the dancefloor once, and it was disasterous on both accounts. Then they started playing American hip hop, but none of the Europeans knew how to move to that.

Lesson 2: Never tell any man where you are planning on visiting. Sam made the mistake of telling a couple men that we were going into Utrecht tomorrow, and it just so happened that they both worked there, and I think one was ready to pick her up at the train station.

Lesson 3: Avoid creepy guys from Senegal. We met one who just clinged to girls, and just when we thought we had gotten rid of him, we were about to leave and he popped up again, so when he asked us to dance, we told him we were leaving and he decided to try to follow us out. We ducked into the bathroom, and were saved by drunk French friends of our neighbor.

However, Lesson 4: Beware of drunk French men. Although those guys saved us from the creep, we found out that they lived in our building. So, we were trying to get away from them without having them try to follow us up to our floor, and as soon as we turned a corner, we ran up the stairs and thought we were safe, but just a couple minutes later someone was outside our hall door ringing the bells (mine particularly) over and over trying to get in. We aren't certain it was one of them, but it freaked us out and Sam joined me in my room until she thought it was safe to walk down the hall again.

Tonight was crazy. We are safe, but now we know what the night life is like here, and we aren't to sure we want to frequent that club. I am going to bed now because we are getting up to start our exploring of the area towns.