how to meet tons of new people and make friends
looks like I've been cooking and organizing nights out for people since Thursday without a break! Yesterday I had a dinner for 9 people, then two more friends popped in, we stayed up till 3am, drank all alcohol available at home, played mandoline, sang, did silly stuff and had generally an awesome evening. And majority of these people have just met..pretty much on the same day
I gave in and signed up to couch surfing opening my own account. I thought Margy and Jenny are away and I have a 4 bedroom flat only to myself..it feels a bit weird so I may as well give my sofa to people..and I had plenty of requests so far, unbelievable!
So yesterday we made a loud collective of English, Scottish, Polish, Austrian, American, Argentinian, Hungarian, German and Italian people occupying my kitchen..it was fun and my neighbour didn't call the police, result!
I have two girls from the UK who are cycling around Europe, currently from Milano to Prague and then to Copenhagen to earn some money fruit picking. They discovered that there was a bike path available all the way from Milan to Prague, that's totally cool! And they lived in a tree community near Worthing until last month..then they are planning to hitch-hike on yachts all the way to South America! It's feasible!
Carlos, the Argentinian guy, has been to all the places I want to go to, he hitched a ride from Canada to Alaska, he wants to stay here to learn German and ski (he doesn't take cable cars up but hikes up and then skis, go him!) I am so tempted to drop everything and do the travelling straight away instead of doing the MA
Jon darrling, don't worry I am not changing plans! ( we have a plan with Jon to stay in the UK, finish the schooling and get out of Europe next winter maybe)
I have more guests coming this week: a guy from Seattle, a girl from Chicago, 4 Polish guys and a French lady with 2 kids coming this week..though I think I can feed them mostly with tasty but modest pasta al'aglio olio e pepperoncino as my bank account is starting to protest..it was supposed to be a hard core saving month and somehow it is turning out quite the opposite..not that I have to feed them but it is nice to do stuff and go out ..the weather has been totally miserable for the past few weeks and we need to make up for it somehow :D
So last week was fun, weekend even more fun, the coming weeks look adventurous too..I have met so many cool people, made some local friends (after a whole year of moaning that Austrians are weird I have finally met an awesome bunch, but oh the irony, I am leaving soon)
Friday I am driving to see Atmosphere in Munich and we have this free all night festival on the mountain, then my mum is coming, then Ben and Jon are coming and then whoa, the end of July already, holiday back home and back in the UK..that all goes like a blizzard!
BTW I am tired and sleepy, what am I doing at work? I should be in my cosy bed instead!