A Night of Techno Music

I am SO happy to have met Sarah (from Istanbul) and Tess (from Austria) on my floor on Friday.  Sarah had invited me to go out on Saturday night with her and Tess said that they meet in the kitchen for drinks and then head out.  So on Saturday, when I got back from doing some grocery shopping, I headed to the kitchen and found Sarah, Tess and Izzy (Tess's visiting friend from Vienna), and met Cat (from Canada) and Gina (from Barcelona).  They were all drinking wine and socializing.  As soon as I started cooking, Sarah started telling me that when she first moved on the floor, people kept to themselves and she was afraid it was going to be really boring.  Then Tess moved in.  Sarah said she introduced herself and said "I'm on my way to a party, do you want to come?".  They said told me how other girls on the floor seem to get mad at them for going out a lot.  I told them how afraid I was that I wasn't going to meet anyone and that I'd be spending Friday and Saturday nights by myself alone in my room.  They were all so nice to me.  Word had spread that there was a new girl on the floor and they all were looking forward to meeting me.  And then they were really happy to know that I love going out as well.  Gina kept saying, "We are so happy to have you here".

They told me I have to go to Broadway market.  Iffy got an amazing black vintage dress there.  I told Gina about my friend who lives in Madrid and how she is s so Spanish now she forgets English words, haha. Tess said the same happens to her and that the other day she forgot a really basic German word.  Tess told me about Salzburg being the birthplace of Mozart and the Sound of Music.  I told her that I had heard that most Austrians never heard of the Sound of Music unitl several years after the movie came out.  Izzy said that the first time she saw the movie was 2 years ago, when she was 25!  Tess said that when she visited the states, when the sercuity person stamped her passport he said, "Land of the Sound of Music" and she had no idea what he was talking about.

Sarah is hilarious.  She had a smear of cream cheese on her face and I pointed it out thinking she didn't know.  She said, "Thank you.  I know.  I felt it.".  Gina was sitting with her head out the window to smoke her cigarrette.  Someone asked if she was cold and Sarah said, "Of course not.  She has that firery Spanish blood". 

We went to The Nest, a nightclub in Dalston, a part of London with a lot of bars and nightclubs.  Before going inside, we went next door to a convience store to buy drinks.  We bought a bottle of wine and Sarah tried to convince the seller to throw in a pack of M&Ms since they were both Turkish!.  Tess said that she does this all the time and sometimes it works, haha.  Then the six of us split the bottle outside on the sidewalk.  It's legal here to drink outside here! 

So The Nest is a one room rectangle.  It was so dark I could barely see anybody.  There were some neon lights in the corners.  It felt like a rave you'd see in the movies. 

All they played was techno music.  I really enjoyed it because I like techo.  All of the music was new to me.  The whole night I didn't hear a single song I knew.  At then end of the night I told Tess that I like techno but I'd also like to dance to R&B.  She said that the music got better toward the end, which I found really surpising that she could tell the difference.  Most of the songs sounded alike to me.  But I did get to really liking a song I heard which I googled when I got home.  Its called Move Your Body, by Marshall Jefferson.  It was released in 1986 and is regarded by some as the best house song of all time. 

We stayed at the club until just after 3AM.  Our feet were really sore.  Thankfully it was the bus stop was right oustide the club, and a couple of blocks away our dorms in Charterhouse Square.

I went by my cousin on Sunday and got home pretty late.  I'm starting this week pretty exhausted.  I think time here is really going to fly.  I'm in the hospital until about 5:30 each day.  I'm going to ask my consultant if its okay for me to take one afternoon off a week to do some siteseeing.

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