Toto, I don't think we're in Gettysburg anymore...

Here's a little story I think everyone (except maybe my mother) will enjoy.

This is why I don't go to a city school.



So last night DIS set up a free boat tour of the canals followed by a party at a local night club w/ a free beverage. I'm all about free things, so I definitely jumped on both opportunities. The canal tour was nice... I got some more scenery pictures (that I have no idea what to do with in the long run, but it's fun to be touristy sometimes). But by the time it was over at 7, we were starvinggggg. So Jamie, Megan and I, along with Megan's new friend Danielle, went to get pizza before heading to the party.

Here's where it gets interesting.

We got to the club, got our free drinks, watched some of our fellow Americans try to pole dance, you know the usual. A nameless classmate of ours managed to get his hands on a stack of the free drink passes, and did Gburg proud by spreading the wealth & saving everyone tons of kroner. (I still can't figure out why everything is so expensive!!)

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I met Cole in my "Survival Danish" class this week, and he was in my group for the scavenger hunt. I spotted him at the bar and new that we needed to make some new friends, so I went up to him and used my good flirtation skills that appear maybe once a year and introduced myself to the guys he was with. Some how this segued (I had to look up how to spell that word, not gonna lie) into a serious adventure. This one kid Tyler's host mom gave him an invitation for himself and 10 friends to go to some "VIP Pre-party" at another club. So I whipped out the map like a good tourist, pulled Sara along (buddy system!!) and we actually managed to find the place.

This was, as someone said, the "ultimate fish-out-of-water experience." We were by far the youngest and most underdressed people at the party. I was shocked we even got in the door. We had to show ID, get fingerprinted, stamped, and have a photo taken in order to get in. And that was AFTER we showed the invitation. This place looked like something straight out of Gossip Girl. I took a couple pictures, but they will never do it justice. A bottle of champagne was 700 kroner..... aka $135. We just walked right in and sat in some reserved booth and tried to act like we owned the place for a little while. I think if we had stayed any longer we would have been personally escorted out.

After deciding that we didn't want to go broke on the first night, we switched to a place called the Wall Street Pub. Idk if that name is their way of luring in Americans... but it worked. I didn't want to stay very long because my bus stopped running at 2.

OR SO I THOUGHT.

We walked back towards DIS and I got to my bus stop, only to realize that it had actually stopped at 12:30. It was now 1:30. I had some words for that, but they aren't internet appropriate.

So I texted Iben & Daniel frantically, and they told me don't worry... just take the night bus. Well it took us forever to finally find the right night bus, poor Sara was trying to run around in heels. Once we went our seperate ways and got on our respective busses, I thought it would be smooooth sailing from there. Oh no. I got about halfway home, and the bus driver was like "okay, you have to get off here. I'm going home. Wait for the next bus." Yeah, well the next bus wasn't until 3:08, so I just sat there by myself, shivering, wanting to cry.

Then this different bus pulled up (not the one I was waiting for) and the driver came out and was like "ohhh... come with me! I'll show you the whole city. I'll drive you around, wherever you want to go." I was like nooo way dude. I'll wait here for the actual bus, thanks. He was kind of relentless but I did NOT trust him so he finally disappeared, and I got on the 3:08 bus and made it home around 3:30.

I feel like there is some kind of moral to this story, but I don't really know what it is. I told my host family all about it and they seemed pretty unphased. I guess it's normal. I'm just so used to Gettysburg, where we think a far commute at night is a walk from College Apts to Midnight Madness or Lambda Chi. Just be glad we don't have to navigate public transportation. All I'm saying is I better catch the 12:30 bus next time!


Until the next adventure,

- Caitlin

:)