Meeting new people!
First of all let me just say Happy New Year and Happy Christmas to you all! (thought I might just get that out of the way)
Anyway, here I am, on yet another random night out, venturing into annebriation and throwing myself into the deep end to meet some new people/catch up with an old mate, yet i dont actually know it but this night will end up as a bit of a failure!
Going back a bit I remember having a late night alcohol induced deep discussion with the father. Now as i always tend to see my father as a bit crazy. Ok ok hes not that bad, but some of the stuff he comes out with is ridonkulus. Anyway, we get onto the conversation of how alot of english people are in terms of meeting new people.
So we are talking about how meeting new people out or just generally can be quite frustrating when someone is a closed book. Now my dad being mexican (and just his general culture) are quite open minded and tend to happily greet strangers and dont think anything of it. He tells me the tale of when he first came to England and was trying to meet new people and was always looked at strangely because he was so open towards others which at times, I see exactly that when im out and about.
Some english people on the other hand will meet and greet you, but anything more than that and they are just not interested, it really is quite annoying.
I wont expect the other person to start the conversation (as it wont happen most of the time anyway) but jesus, I dont really like talking to a wall.. I can do that at home thanks.
Which leads me to this night out..
After having been introduced to the other new people who we were out with, I try to bring up conversation and they decide to reply, but then carry on their own conversation without me. So after consequently being ignored I decide screw it. If your not going to make conversation with me then I wont bother.
Funnily enough it was a good night with the other guys I knew and ended with a lovely footlong subway, the perfect binge food for a night out =)
Anyway whilst i rant at this annoying pointless subject, I wont just mention these nights. I've had alot of good nights out and met knew people just as open minded as me which has turned out being completely awesome. Fabric for one a couple of years back and just general house parties about university.
From my thought-out, opinionated point of view, I think that most of the Eastern European countries like Slovakia, Poland and that lot are just generally more welcoming people. I went to a Slovakian house party alone once and was literally welcomed by my Slovakian mates whole group of friends - I have personally never had this experience anywhere else and it just really goes to show sometimes that not all new people you meet are bad!
At the same party I also managed to consume further quantities of 80% alcohol shots and had woken up the next morning finding that i had pissed in my drawers with a t-shirt around my waist apparently imitating pyjama bottoms...but thats another story..
Hopefully this will be my last unpleasant experience meeting new people but.. New Year new stories right?
Much love
/Ollie
Anyway, here I am, on yet another random night out, venturing into annebriation and throwing myself into the deep end to meet some new people/catch up with an old mate, yet i dont actually know it but this night will end up as a bit of a failure!
Going back a bit I remember having a late night alcohol induced deep discussion with the father. Now as i always tend to see my father as a bit crazy. Ok ok hes not that bad, but some of the stuff he comes out with is ridonkulus. Anyway, we get onto the conversation of how alot of english people are in terms of meeting new people.
So we are talking about how meeting new people out or just generally can be quite frustrating when someone is a closed book. Now my dad being mexican (and just his general culture) are quite open minded and tend to happily greet strangers and dont think anything of it. He tells me the tale of when he first came to England and was trying to meet new people and was always looked at strangely because he was so open towards others which at times, I see exactly that when im out and about.
Some english people on the other hand will meet and greet you, but anything more than that and they are just not interested, it really is quite annoying.
I wont expect the other person to start the conversation (as it wont happen most of the time anyway) but jesus, I dont really like talking to a wall.. I can do that at home thanks.
Which leads me to this night out..
After having been introduced to the other new people who we were out with, I try to bring up conversation and they decide to reply, but then carry on their own conversation without me. So after consequently being ignored I decide screw it. If your not going to make conversation with me then I wont bother.
Funnily enough it was a good night with the other guys I knew and ended with a lovely footlong subway, the perfect binge food for a night out =)
Anyway whilst i rant at this annoying pointless subject, I wont just mention these nights. I've had alot of good nights out and met knew people just as open minded as me which has turned out being completely awesome. Fabric for one a couple of years back and just general house parties about university.
From my thought-out, opinionated point of view, I think that most of the Eastern European countries like Slovakia, Poland and that lot are just generally more welcoming people. I went to a Slovakian house party alone once and was literally welcomed by my Slovakian mates whole group of friends - I have personally never had this experience anywhere else and it just really goes to show sometimes that not all new people you meet are bad!
At the same party I also managed to consume further quantities of 80% alcohol shots and had woken up the next morning finding that i had pissed in my drawers with a t-shirt around my waist apparently imitating pyjama bottoms...but thats another story..
Hopefully this will be my last unpleasant experience meeting new people but.. New Year new stories right?
Much love
/Ollie
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