Saturday Night

hollllllllllllllly crap! Erasmus is amazing! I love Koper!

Yesterday Laura, Alison and I walked down to the port to discover a massive Masquerade parade happening down the main street. There were TONNES of people considering how small this town is. They had huge mechanized floats such as a Caribbean island WITH music and dancers, and a GIANT pirate ship that had cannons that shot confetti everywhere. All the kids and adults were dressed up in the funniest costumes...my fave was the group of ladies dressed up like different kinds of lettuce. They were amazing costumes.

Then the three of us continued walking on the main street, and in the veggie market, until we ran into a table with candy on it. We each grabbed a bag and started choosing things like children...then the lady weighed it and told us how much it cost. Let's just say that I am still rationing this candy because it cost as much as my meals for a day haha. Oh well...oops.

Then we met up with David B, another student from Canada who arrived on Friday. He is at the Dijaski Dom right around the corner from us. We went for lunch at a fish place with a very enthusiastic waiter and then made our way back to the centre to meet David B's roommate Ales (pronounced Alesh) who is a Slovenian student of Humanities here in Koper. Quite the character that one...if he was any more Slovenian I think he would explode. Just his mannerisms and the way he speaks and the way he tells us that whatever anyone else tells us is wrong and he knows the truth yadda yadda...soo funny. I just laughed at him, but Alison and Laura were marginally offended by him I think haha. So then we walked around with him and went to the other dorm, Port, so David B could see about moving there. It's pretty far out of the centre actually, about 15-20 minute walk depending on intoxication level.

On the way back to centre, we ran into some other guys that are in the Dijaski Dom with David and Ales. THEY ARE SCOTTISH BOYS. SCOTTISH BOYS WITH ACCENTS. Ohmahgah I nearly died. They are from Glasgow and are an absolute riot! There are three of them, two of them named...DAVID of course (that brings the David tally to 4 if you're not counting)..and then third is named Shaun. They made plans with David and Ales to go out later and invited us to come along, yeehaw!

We finally made it back to Centre for a coffee at Cafe Calypso. Then another one of David and Ales's friends came to join us. This one is from Spain...Javier...another ohmahgah. Our tutor Mojca also met us there so we could finally meet her. She is very very nice and sounds like she will be a big help to us. Mojca and Javier had a coffee with us and then we decided to walk to Interspar (which is like a walmart type place) which is allllll the way back by the other dorm. Basically we walked back and forth from there to Centre ALL day. We got some booze for later and then Javier went back to port and we all went to our abodes.

3.5 hours later....

Laura, Alison, and I walked to the Dom to David and Ales's room to drink and hang out before going out. It turned into this massive old erasmus/new erasmus party with about 20 people crammed into a dorm room meant for two. It was so much fun! I met two girls from Finland, two girls from Spain, one other guy from Spain, one guy from Izola in Slovenia, one girl from Poland, one from Hungary, and of course the Scottish boys showed up in full Moses-esque masquerade costumes complete with headpiece. Gahd I love them. So we just hung out there for AGES talking to people, getting to know them and exchanging information so we can hang out again before some of them leave next week. I discovered that scottish david-1 loves stereophonics, as do the other two scots, and so we had loaddddsss to talk about haha. Then they cranked it on the sound system and we were all dancing and singing like crazies because no one else knew wtf we were on about. I told Ales that I am half Slovenian and he flipped out and then asked what my surname is and what my family's other names are and where they live,etc. When I said my last name was Lebar from Prek., you should have seen the look on his face, soooo funny. He acted like he actually knew the people/names I was talking about. Gahd he is so crazy. The guy from Izola, Mataj, brought homemade wine that was really really good, but reallllly reallllllly strong. I said I just wanted a little bit, but he filled my whole glass...that is what resulted in me not being able to walk in a straight line on the way to the bar.

At about 1, I think, we decided to go to this dance bar called The City. It's about a 20 minute walk away, so off we went! I talked to Javier and Scottish David-2 on the way and they are amazingly nice and funny. And also provided lovely arm links so I wouldn't fall over haha. Ugh...keepin it classy in Koper. The bar was TINY, like soo sooo small, and also packed. But that did not matter, because we wanted to dance! And dance we did! A few creepy men following me all night, but luckily the erasmus boys are just like the boys at home and protect their girls! I owe scottish david-1 and javier a drink for sure for saving me A LOT of times haha. So we danced for a long time, and then I looked at my watch and it said 5 am. Time to go home haha. So the Spanish people went back to port, and a bunch of us walked back to centre/our homes. Exchanged numbers with the polish girl, Katya, and the Hungarian girl, Anna (who is also a film student in Hungary, hazaah!) and stumbled our way back down the tiny road and to bed.

GOOD NIGHT! These people seem genuinely nice and fun and lovely and I'm looking forward to spending a lot more time with them. YAY!

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