Screw Social Borders

I went clubbing with several people last night, none of whom I actually knew...and they were all lovely! (overused word, I know!) Essentially it was a big meet up and I knew friends of friends going so I was invited to come along and I'm even meeting them again later this evening!

I am determined to break down as many social borders as possible from now on...ok I've been doing this for a while now but I'm consciously making a greater effort now. I like the way my college course is in some ways my niche, but I'm determined it won't become my clique...

because I HATE academic, social and cultural stagnancy.

I'm sure that anyone who doesn't know me probably thinks I'm some freak but some day, I'd love to have the confidence to go clubbing on my own. To be so completely self assured (not cocky) that I'll be able to chat to just about anyone (in a non sleazy way) is quite admirable in my opinion. When I was in London with LJ, we bumped into this really nice guy from North Carolina. It was his last night there so he wanted to make use of it so off he went clubbing on his own, we bumped into him and he joined us for the remainder of the night.

What a cool guy.

Friends. :-)

Something I've always found very frustrating is that you can only do one course in college. Personally, I find it very limiting both academically AND socially. The thing that gets to me is that regardless of how I carry on with my education, I'm going to meet the loveliest of people. So....where are all those potential friends I haven't met but I just KNOW I would get along with???

Fortunately, the past week I've spent in Sziget was one of those times when you get to screw that system over. Myself and my friend N stayed in a hostel and we were immediately greeted by three lovely Aussie girls. After finding out that they were going to Sziget Music Festival as well and a few brief conversations, what did we do?? We decided to go camping at the festival with them, with essentially three complete strangers! We then met their four other friends (two of whom they had met in the hostel randomly) AND we all got along......... AMAZINGLY! I know, I'm using A LOT of capital letters here but we had THE TIME! Three groups of strangers I mean!!!

I now have 5 new Aussie, one German and a British guy as friends and they're all just the NICEST people. I really can't emphasise how much we all got along with each other. It was such a liberating experience. You get to know people so well when you go camping and drinking with each other continuously for 7 days. It's just hard to explain if you haven't experienced that.

So thank you guys and girls for the BEST Sziget ever, ye really made my trip so much more spectacular than I ever could have imagined. I can't wait to catch up in Canberra, Berlin and Birmingham with you all.

:-)