Trauma Abroad (not really)

So finally we were back at out hotel after a long day in the city. We were excited because we were finally staying in an area where we actually saw other people and not just cows so there was a bit of nightlife. Most people set off to go to the 18 and older bar just around the corner and my group decided our time would be better spent at a bowling alley. So we asked for directions and went on our way. It was dark out already and was very quiet. We ended up getting lost. Getting lost in the dark is a lot different than getting lost during the day, it was scary and it was at that moment that I realized I didn’t know the emergency number in Germany. I could call 911 all I wanted and nobody would help. So when we heard a very loud bang we ran like the wind to find the hotel. It was probably nothing, but I was convinced we were going to get murdered. So then we found the bar that everyone else went to and hung out with them. It was really awkward in there. There was nobody else but our tour group and the three men working. And they were very creepy, but scrawny so we could take them if the need arose, but still very weird. For example the one guy kept hip thrusting at us and trying to get involved in some dirty dancing. It made us all very uncomfortable so we kept trying to get them to put on karaoke. They would, but for only a short time before trying to dance with us again.

Finally we went back to the hotel for the night. It was just Shannon and I to a room, but of course it was still an interesting night. It started when she went to go take a shower. I decided that I would put something on tv so I started to look for a tv channel with a music countdown like we had on the other night. But then when I was scrolling through the guide I saw the letters DSNY, so like the innocent person I am I thought “yay foreign Disney!” but I was so WRONG. I was not greeted with a show filled with childhood memories, I was shown a very rated X movie. The second it came on I hear a crash from the shower, so then I’m frantically trying to turn off the channel and yell to make sure Shannon is still alive. So this is three near death experiences for the night. Number one there is a loud noise in a dark foreign street and I am about to die, number two I accidentally turn on porn and have a minor heart attack, and number three Shannon tumbles in the shower taking the entire curtain rod down with her. So now I’m knocking on the door checking to see if she’s okay because she has fallen at least a hundred times on this trip and it was a wonder she wasn’t concussed yet. And she yells back that she’s okay, but needs help with the curtain rod. So then together we had to figure out how to put the curtain rod back up, and while we’re doing that our chaperones come to check that were in for the night. They laughed because they heard the crash from down the hall and helped us fix it. Then we were in for the night and finally relaxed after our traumatizing day.