hi everybody

darkangelism · 01-12-2006, 11:39 AM

im in europe now, i have slept 10 hrs in the last 4 days been really drunk everynight, this euro keyboard is annoying keys are not in the same place. anyway im out ill have a more detailed post of my trips highs and lows, some crazy stuff, girl issues and i started smoking again, when i get back.

Merika · 01-12-2006, 11:59 AM

Can't wait to hear ALL the juicy details DA!!!

OH...BTW....I found you a cool link: http://www.lovessecrets.com/

darkangelism · 01-13-2006, 01:08 PM

well i figured out some of my problerms were just lack of sleep and after sleeping it stopped being an issue. anyway tomorrow i go meet meanon. gonna be fun.

Star · 01-13-2006, 01:12 PM

have fun DA and enjoy yourself!! fill us all in when you get back and hope everything goes well when you meat menon!! have fun!!!!

Luba · 01-13-2006, 07:06 PM

Nice to hear from you, DA! Keep a journal, I'll be asking about just everything...

Meanon · 01-15-2006, 02:07 PM

DA is still safe and sound having made it all the way across London and then across England to see my sister and I in Bristol. I was impressed! Our tube system is pretty daunting but apparently the NY subway is worse. We had a really nice time, DA was very easygoing and seemed to like going to new places, meeting new people and doing new things.

The only thing that seemed to freak him out was all the kissing. Lol! Do they not do this by way of greeting and departing in America? At least we're not as sloppy as the French, my friend went there recently to stay with friends and was told off for only kissing twice instead of the customary 4 times!

If all goes to plan I think DA will be going home on Weds, I'm sure he'll tell you all about it then.

Luba · 01-15-2006, 02:34 PM

In Canada some of us do a lot of hugging...

Duke · 01-15-2006, 02:43 PM

I think its more of a European thing because if you go to kiss someone in America, they either shoot you or blast you with a face full of pepper spray.

TKDLady · 01-15-2006, 06:50 PM

Depends on whose doing the kissing. I wouldn't use a gun or pepper spray if someone greeted me with a kiss. I think I would like it. It beats the preverbial handshake. I also like hugging. I don't own a gun or pepper spray. I think more Americans should adopt this policy. Maybe there would be less violence. Just my two cents.

Sounds like DA is having fun. I wish I was with him.

Star · 01-16-2006, 08:34 AM

mine and hubby's families have always done the kissy huggy thing when he greet and then again when we leave. it's done regularly in quebec too. a kiss on the side of each cheak at hello and goodbye.

i always felt kind of uncomfortable with it. i dread the kissy/huggy part of this retual or tradition or whatever it's called.

Weiser · 01-16-2006, 02:17 PM

My cousins (female) do that here too (the older ones) I had no idea until I met them, then I was bombarded with kisses on the cheek. Freaked me out, I was like wtf?

Merika · 01-17-2006, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Meanon

DA is still safe and sound having made it all the way across London and then across England to see my sister and I in Bristol.

How COOL is that??? I'm so happy you guys finally met after being friends for so long! I'm glad you have a great visit and can't wait to hear all about it.

twinkle · 01-17-2006, 01:07 PM

I'm so disapointed that I couldn't come

.

HAve the best of times, DA and please excuse me for not replying to your PM earlier.

I'm working crazy hours here and trying to do my paper in between.

I hate everyone who's out there worrying about nothing !!!!

Meanon · 01-17-2006, 04:38 PM

Never mind twinkle. We'll have fun some other time.

I know just how you feel. A week ago I did 31 hrs straight to get my assignments in and then (insanely) went out to celebrate rather than going to bed. I achieved nothing at work that week. I'm too old to manage without sleep

Duke · 01-17-2006, 06:26 PM

I'd love to come down and visit but I'm afraid Meanon would never let me leave

Merika · 01-18-2006, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Duke

I'd love to come down and visit but I'm afraid Meanon would never let me leave

Meanon's social and party schedule would wear you out - Froggy!

twinkle · 01-18-2006, 11:02 AM

"Some other time"... Jeesh, story of my life!

I feel guilty for not taking advantage of this opportunity - meeting DA, I mean. I really do regret it.

darkangelism · 01-19-2006, 10:46 PM

dont worry twinkle i really want to go back to europe, we will meet someday. Anyway, the kissing was just unexpected, it wasnt weird to anything, we dont do it in the US, well a few of my friends do, but thats it. Anyway, i had a great time, meeting meanon was the highlight of the trip because i had to figure out how to get there and everything, but i did make it. She is a lot of fun. Ill post an extnsive day by day account tomorrow, im just really tired, 11 hours of flying in 2 days.

twinkle · 01-20-2006, 03:15 AM

Oh, do rub it in, DA ! :evil:

Crazy, isnt't it? You got to meet Meanon and you live tens of thousands miles away, when all that separates me from England is a silly channel!

Vautrin · 01-20-2006, 03:26 AM

Hi, DA. Glad you are back, and great to hear you had such a good time in Europe. Sorry that we could not meet, but there were other priorities for me at the time

.

Rest well. And enjoy the jet-lag. (It is easier from East to West than the other way around).

twinkle · 01-20-2006, 04:12 AM

So true, Vautrin. when I went to Washington, I had no problem whatsoever, but when I got home it took me more than a week to get over the jetlag. (That and the fact that I kinda did a lot of partying in the US...)

Luba · 01-20-2006, 07:37 AM

So happy that you had a great time and are back, DA, and wonderful that you got to meet Meanon!!

Looking forward to your play-by-play report on your trip!

Merika · 01-20-2006, 08:36 AM

I can't wait to hear all about your trip DA. I know you looked forward it for a long time.

darkangelism · 01-20-2006, 03:08 PM

im not sure if i have time to post all of the trip b4 my mom gets home, so ill post some now and some later.

ok, well the trip started off really well, just when i got to NY the day before, i went to my favorite bar and my favorite bartender was there and they hadnt taken down the mistletoe and she told me that we had to kiss, so im like ok, kissing a girl is a good way to start off the trip, i then got drunk and waited for my friend to get back from work so that i could go to his place(my parents thought i was going straight there) so he then calls me and i walk over there and i hung out with him and he tells me that he moved out and is living with his gf but i can stay at his place, which made it easier cause then i got a bed and not the floor.

So the next morning i got up at noon to leave for my flight which was at 6:30pm. So i took the subway to the airport and was 2 hours early from when my professor told us to get there(4) so i walked around and waited for him and the rest of my class to get there, the time was passing really slowly because i was so excited. Then people started showing up and i talked to them and then we went through security and our plane was delayed an hour, so we sat around for awhile. Then we finally got on the plane and we talked and stuff(the girl next to me was/is really hot, now we are friends) the plane was really crowded so it was really hard to sleep, so i didnt at all. When we landed it was 8am Brussels time and so we got our bags and went on a bus tour of the city, which wasnt so great because we were all tired, at this pont i met my roomates, who seemed like at first they were not sure if they were gonna like me or not. So once the tour was finished we went back and checked into our hotel. Here was where i first spent time with my roomates, to open the trip we did shots of Jack Daniels that they bought in the duty free shop at the airport and smoked a cigarette(mind you i have only smoked a couple of times in my life, but i wanted to fit in)We then were brought to this historic area near city hall and were showed where we would be having our welcome dinner. We then were turned loose in the city for 4 hours and told the hotel is in that general direction you will find it. So i went off with my friend and some other girls and we ate at some traditional belgian place, that was pretty good, and i had my first belgian beer. After this i did one of the few things that i shouldnt have done on the trip, i went shopping with my friend and some girls, its not the shopping part that was bad, it was the walking, my muscles were sore for the rest of the trip after walking so much.

We then went back to the hotel and got ready to go to the dinner. We then all walked back to where the dinner was and ate, the dinner was ok, but we got to try more beligian beer. After the dinner most of the class, went to the bar, we found this place that had caskets for tables, kinda creepy, then we had a drink and most of us except my roomates left so i slept for about 3 hours until about 1am, then my roomates came back and woke me up, and we watched videos that they took of their night and drank more JD(at this point they realized i was cool if i would get up in the middle of the night and drink with them.) We ended up staying up until 4am. They had scored some weed and smoked that, but i didnt.

The next morning we had to get up at 7:30 so that we could eat and then go to the school events that we had to go to. We went to the US commerical services, which is where the governmtnt helps faciiliate trade, and this one girl in our group asked when we were talking about Fedex and DHL, "What is DHL is it a political party" At this point the whole class laughed at her. We then went to antwerp and toured the coca-cola factory there and got free coke. After that we had to go to the EU council and listen to another presentation, by now we were all really tired. But i learned how the social security in europe is costing them a fortune and that if the US doesnt do anything we will end up in the same situation. After this we finally got to go back to the hotel and change out of our suits, i found that i like being dressed up, but not everyday. We all decided that we were gonna go eat then go to the bar, so we found Mcdonalds and found that they serve beer there, so we started drinking there. By now i had hung out with my roomates, the two other guys on the trip and one of their girlfriends, and had a decent group to spend time with, as i was getting annoyed with my friend. So we go to this bar with the expectation of meeting a few other people from our group in an hour, and an hour goes by, then 2 and they are not there yet, then as we are getting ready to leave they show up with a bunch of the girls from our class. By now we are drunk, and i had a few more ciggaretes, and so unlike NY bars where there is no dancing we all go dance(which was good as prior to this i had no good memories of dancing) Beer there was cheap only 2 euro. Then my fiend showed up and i really didnt want to hang out with her and so she ended up making out with a guy from our group( i used to/kinda still do, like her) so i wasnt so good with the jealousy and so i went to a different part of the bar and smoked and by now i was able to inhale and it did make me not care as much, i didnt like the fact that i was smoking) We left by about 3am and had to be up at 7am the next morning, so once again a low level of sleep.

ok i need a break fom typing this, ill post more later.

Merika · 01-20-2006, 03:45 PM

I loved reading all that DA! It was real interesting. They have BEER at McDonalds?????????

I'll wait until you finish before asking you a bunch of other questions I have.

01-12-2006, 11:39 AM	#1
darkangelism Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: oklahoma Posts: 5,893	hi everybody im in europe now, i have slept 10 hrs in the last 4 days been really drunk everynight, this euro keyboard is annoying keys are not in the same place. anyway im out ill have a more detailed post of my trips highs and lows, some crazy stuff, girl issues and i started smoking again, when i get back.

01-13-2006, 01:08 PM	#3
darkangelism Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: oklahoma Posts: 5,893	well i figured out some of my problerms were just lack of sleep and after sleeping it stopped being an issue. anyway tomorrow i go meet meanon. gonna be fun. __________________

01-13-2006, 01:12 PM	#4
Star Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 5,635	have fun DA and enjoy yourself!! fill us all in when you get back and hope everything goes well when you meat menon!! have fun!!!! __________________ *Life is what you make of it. Make it happen.*

01-15-2006, 02:43 PM	#8
Duke Founder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under your bed. My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 25,259	I think its more of a European thing because if you go to kiss someone in America, they either shoot you or blast you with a face full of pepper spray. __________________ My Daughter Rules! "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

01-15-2006, 06:50 PM	#9
TKDLady Moderator Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: At Home My Communication Style: Supportive, Honest Posts: 9,319	Depends on whose doing the kissing. I wouldn't use a gun or pepper spray if someone greeted me with a kiss. I think I would like it. It beats the preverbial handshake. I also like hugging. I don't own a gun or pepper spray. I think more Americans should adopt this policy. Maybe there would be less violence. Just my two cents. Sounds like DA is having fun. I wish I was with him. __________________ "Love isn't finding someone you can live with, it is finding someone you can't live without"

01-12-2006, 11:59 AM	#2
Merika Retired Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 13,207	Can't wait to hear ALL the juicy details DA!!! OH...BTW....I found you a cool link: http://www.lovessecrets.com/

01-13-2006, 07:06 PM	#5
Luba Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow! My Communication Style: Optimistic, Experience Posts: 18,690	Nice to hear from you, DA! Keep a journal, I'll be asking about just everything...

01-15-2006, 02:07 PM	#6
Meanon Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,875	DA is still safe and sound having made it all the way across London and then across England to see my sister and I in Bristol. I was impressed! Our tube system is pretty daunting but apparently the NY subway is worse. We had a really nice time, DA was very easygoing and seemed to like going to new places, meeting new people and doing new things. The only thing that seemed to freak him out was all the kissing. Lol! Do they not do this by way of greeting and departing in America? At least we're not as sloppy as the French, my friend went there recently to stay with friends and was told off for only kissing twice instead of the customary 4 times! If all goes to plan I think DA will be going home on Weds, I'm sure he'll tell you all about it then.

01-15-2006, 02:34 PM	#7
Luba Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow! My Communication Style: Optimistic, Experience Posts: 18,690	In Canada some of us do a lot of hugging...

01-16-2006, 08:34 AM	#10
Star Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 5,635	mine and hubby's families have always done the kissy huggy thing when he greet and then again when we leave. it's done regularly in quebec too. a kiss on the side of each cheak at hello and goodbye. i always felt kind of uncomfortable with it. i dread the kissy/huggy part of this retual or tradition or whatever it's called. __________________ *Life is what you make of it. Make it happen.*

01-16-2006, 02:17 PM	#11
Weiser Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The center of the Universe; Toronto Posts: 3,133	My cousins (female) do that here too (the older ones) I had no idea until I met them, then I was bombarded with kisses on the cheek. Freaked me out, I was like wtf?

01-17-2006, 01:07 PM	#13
twinkle Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,254	I'm so disapointed that I couldn't come . HAve the best of times, DA and please excuse me for not replying to your PM earlier. I'm working crazy hours here and trying to do my paper in between. I hate everyone who's out there worrying about nothing !!!!

01-17-2006, 04:38 PM	#14
Meanon Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,875	Never mind twinkle. We'll have fun some other time. I know just how you feel. A week ago I did 31 hrs straight to get my assignments in and then (insanely) went out to celebrate rather than going to bed. I achieved nothing at work that week. I'm too old to manage without sleep

01-17-2006, 06:26 PM	#15
Duke Founder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under your bed. My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 25,259	I'd love to come down and visit but I'm afraid Meanon would never let me leave __________________ My Daughter Rules! "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

01-18-2006, 11:02 AM	#17
twinkle Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,254	"Some other time"... Jeesh, story of my life! I feel guilty for not taking advantage of this opportunity - meeting DA, I mean. I really do regret it.

01-19-2006, 10:46 PM	#18
darkangelism Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: oklahoma Posts: 5,893	dont worry twinkle i really want to go back to europe, we will meet someday. Anyway, the kissing was just unexpected, it wasnt weird to anything, we dont do it in the US, well a few of my friends do, but thats it. Anyway, i had a great time, meeting meanon was the highlight of the trip because i had to figure out how to get there and everything, but i did make it. She is a lot of fun. Ill post an extnsive day by day account tomorrow, im just really tired, 11 hours of flying in 2 days. __________________

01-20-2006, 03:15 AM	#19
twinkle Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,254	Oh, do rub it in, DA ! :evil: Crazy, isnt't it? You got to meet Meanon and you live tens of thousands miles away, when all that separates me from England is a silly channel!

01-20-2006, 03:26 AM	#20
Vautrin Administrator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Between thought and expression My Communication Style: Experience, Supportive Posts: 10,643	Hi, DA. Glad you are back, and great to hear you had such a good time in Europe. Sorry that we could not meet, but there were other priorities for me at the time . Rest well. And enjoy the jet-lag. (It is easier from East to West than the other way around). __________________ None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

01-20-2006, 04:12 AM	#21
twinkle Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,254	So true, Vautrin. when I went to Washington, I had no problem whatsoever, but when I got home it took me more than a week to get over the jetlag. (That and the fact that I kinda did a lot of partying in the US...)

01-20-2006, 07:37 AM	#22
Luba Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow! My Communication Style: Optimistic, Experience Posts: 18,690	So happy that you had a great time and are back, DA, and wonderful that you got to meet Meanon!! Looking forward to your play-by-play report on your trip!

01-20-2006, 08:36 AM	#23
Merika Retired Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 13,207	I can't wait to hear all about your trip DA. I know you looked forward it for a long time.

01-20-2006, 03:08 PM	#24
darkangelism Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: oklahoma Posts: 5,893	im not sure if i have time to post all of the trip b4 my mom gets home, so ill post some now and some later. ok, well the trip started off really well, just when i got to NY the day before, i went to my favorite bar and my favorite bartender was there and they hadnt taken down the mistletoe and she told me that we had to kiss, so im like ok, kissing a girl is a good way to start off the trip, i then got drunk and waited for my friend to get back from work so that i could go to his place(my parents thought i was going straight there) so he then calls me and i walk over there and i hung out with him and he tells me that he moved out and is living with his gf but i can stay at his place, which made it easier cause then i got a bed and not the floor. So the next morning i got up at noon to leave for my flight which was at 6:30pm. So i took the subway to the airport and was 2 hours early from when my professor told us to get there(4) so i walked around and waited for him and the rest of my class to get there, the time was passing really slowly because i was so excited. Then people started showing up and i talked to them and then we went through security and our plane was delayed an hour, so we sat around for awhile. Then we finally got on the plane and we talked and stuff(the girl next to me was/is really hot, now we are friends) the plane was really crowded so it was really hard to sleep, so i didnt at all. When we landed it was 8am Brussels time and so we got our bags and went on a bus tour of the city, which wasnt so great because we were all tired, at this pont i met my roomates, who seemed like at first they were not sure if they were gonna like me or not. So once the tour was finished we went back and checked into our hotel. Here was where i first spent time with my roomates, to open the trip we did shots of Jack Daniels that they bought in the duty free shop at the airport and smoked a cigarette(mind you i have only smoked a couple of times in my life, but i wanted to fit in)We then were brought to this historic area near city hall and were showed where we would be having our welcome dinner. We then were turned loose in the city for 4 hours and told the hotel is in that general direction you will find it. So i went off with my friend and some other girls and we ate at some traditional belgian place, that was pretty good, and i had my first belgian beer. After this i did one of the few things that i shouldnt have done on the trip, i went shopping with my friend and some girls, its not the shopping part that was bad, it was the walking, my muscles were sore for the rest of the trip after walking so much. We then went back to the hotel and got ready to go to the dinner. We then all walked back to where the dinner was and ate, the dinner was ok, but we got to try more beligian beer. After the dinner most of the class, went to the bar, we found this place that had caskets for tables, kinda creepy, then we had a drink and most of us except my roomates left so i slept for about 3 hours until about 1am, then my roomates came back and woke me up, and we watched videos that they took of their night and drank more JD(at this point they realized i was cool if i would get up in the middle of the night and drink with them.) We ended up staying up until 4am. They had scored some weed and smoked that, but i didnt. The next morning we had to get up at 7:30 so that we could eat and then go to the school events that we had to go to. We went to the US commerical services, which is where the governmtnt helps faciiliate trade, and this one girl in our group asked when we were talking about Fedex and DHL, "What is DHL is it a political party" At this point the whole class laughed at her. We then went to antwerp and toured the coca-cola factory there and got free coke. After that we had to go to the EU council and listen to another presentation, by now we were all really tired. But i learned how the social security in europe is costing them a fortune and that if the US doesnt do anything we will end up in the same situation. After this we finally got to go back to the hotel and change out of our suits, i found that i like being dressed up, but not everyday. We all decided that we were gonna go eat then go to the bar, so we found Mcdonalds and found that they serve beer there, so we started drinking there. By now i had hung out with my roomates, the two other guys on the trip and one of their girlfriends, and had a decent group to spend time with, as i was getting annoyed with my friend. So we go to this bar with the expectation of meeting a few other people from our group in an hour, and an hour goes by, then 2 and they are not there yet, then as we are getting ready to leave they show up with a bunch of the girls from our class. By now we are drunk, and i had a few more ciggaretes, and so unlike NY bars where there is no dancing we all go dance(which was good as prior to this i had no good memories of dancing) Beer there was cheap only 2 euro. Then my fiend showed up and i really didnt want to hang out with her and so she ended up making out with a guy from our group( i used to/kinda still do, like her) so i wasnt so good with the jealousy and so i went to a different part of the bar and smoked and by now i was able to inhale and it did make me not care as much, i didnt like the fact that i was smoking) We left by about 3am and had to be up at 7am the next morning, so once again a low level of sleep. ok i need a break fom typing this, ill post more later. __________________

01-20-2006, 03:45 PM	#25
Merika Retired Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 13,207	I loved reading all that DA! It was real interesting. They have BEER at McDonalds????????? I'll wait until you finish before asking you a bunch of other questions I have.

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