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    The Hostel Life

    Staying in a Hostel by myself for a night was certainly an experience. I had 4 roommates (only 4 beds total...) and none of them spoke English. Upon arriving at the Hostel I knew I had at least 1 roommate because some of his clothes were drying on his bed, which just so happened to be the bunk above mine. I discovered the other roommates later on. I was taking a nap to recover from jetlag when i heard the door open. In walk three French girls somewhere around my age.

    Now I'm just waking up so I'm trying to process this situation and the first thing that comes to mind is that there is only 1 set of bunks left. Figuring they must have the wrong room we begin some sort of primitive conversation with lots of hand gestures. I point to the top bunk and say "one" then the bottom and say "two" and then I said "three?". They smiled and pointed to one girl and then the top bunk saying "one" and then the other two pointed to themselves and the bottom bunk. We all started laughing and you'll understand why. Examine the pictures below and you'll see how crazy this seemed to me. The beds are tiny and are only an arms length apart.

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    Soon after "meeting" the girls, I say it like that because as of now we still haven't had any sort of communication since I definitely don't speak French and their English is terrible, I went back out into Central London to explore. When I came back later that night to go to bed the girls were in there but still not the guy in the bed above me. As I'm walking out to take a shower he finally walks in. I'd guess he was about 25-28 and definitely German, also speaking zero English. All he said the entire time was good night and then good morning today. He also snored and slept-talked all night, much to the amusement of myself and the French girls.

    Amazingly the bed was actually pretty comfortable and I slept pretty well, even with the random outbursts of German sleep-talk. I got up and had breakfast this morning and one of my trip companions, Elizabeth just arrived here so I think we're going to head out into London and do some more exploring.

    - Taylor

    • 11 June 2011
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    I'm a 21 year old male from wilmington, nc and a student at the university of north carolina. last summer i created this blog to follow my journey studying and traveling across europe as a participant on the burch research seminar in vienna and the balkans.

  • About Taylor Anderson

    I'm a 21 year old male from wilmington, nc and a student at the university of north carolina. last summer i created this blog to follow my journey studying and traveling across europe as a participant on the burch research seminar in vienna and the balkans.

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