McDonalds food, Moulin Rouge und Mach die Beine breit

Exeter, UK

15th October 2001

You can't bring McDonalds food into the Hostel without getting ridiculed by everyone. I don't know how I could move out when women out number men 5 to 1.

I had a really nice weekend. I met two lovely German girls. Elisabeth, 21 from Hanover and Renate, 25 from Minden. On Friday night we went out to the Cinema to see Moulin Rouge, it was a really nice film but I don't think I could see it without two women with me.

Before the movie we were sitting around and chatting. I took this as an opportunity to learn some German. I asked Renate how to say "how are you?" in German and she told me "Mach die Beine breit". I repeated and Elisabeth began to giggle. I asked how to say "I am fine" and Renete said "Schwauslutscher" and I repeated that and Elisabeth burst into laughter. That's when I figured out that she was pulling my leg. Turns outs that "Mach die Beine breit" means spread your legs and "Schwauslutscher" means suck my dick. My German dictionary now has hand writing of all the dirty German words. I guess they've raised the bar for the Spanish girls.

On Saturday night the two German girls along with 4 French girls went to a great pub called "The prospect" for a few drinks. The German girls and I were telling jokes and cracking up, the French girls didn't understand a word we were saying. The German girls and I didn't stay long, we ended up going back to the hostel.

We came back and Elisabeth introduced me to "brotherhood". This is where you interlock arms, drink from a glass of wine and then kiss. We got pretty wasted doing this over and over. Finally we went over by the phone to get some privacy (about as private as it gets in the main floor of a hostel). There we began to make out. At one point we fell to the floor, I opened my eyes to see people in the TV room looking over and at the other end the Spanish girls looking over. At that point I didn't really care who was looking. Elisabeth had to get up at 5am to catch a flight back to Hanover so I walked her up to her room, we made it to the second level lobby before we began to kiss again.. we pretty much ignored the people walking past us as we carried on. We finally got some real privacy in room O1 which by chance didn't have anyone in there.

I found out the next morning that someone was walking around the hostel looking for us with a camera! Thank god they didn't find us. I've heard stories of a bloke shagging a bird, coming downstairs the next morning and seeing photo's of it on the wall.

I woke up the next morning to find my entire abdomen covered in hickeys.. Sally gave me a make over this morning to cover them up before I got to work.

When I came down Sunday morning I was greeted with a ridiculing from the Australians. One said "I hope it was safe sex" while another said "I heard it was public sex, it was by the phone" and another, 'so does that make it public phone sex??".

A good weekend all in all. I'm probably going to German sometime in November for the weekend. Still have to find a flight.