Saturday, August 2, 2008

Disco Disco Hollywood!

Hollywood is a club here in Rhienbach where everyone one goes to have a drink, and smoke, and to dance.  Caro my sister brought me to the club with some of her close friends.  before entering into the club I had to give them my drivers liscense to show that I was older than 16.  after that they give you a little card that will keep tabs of what you drink or eat i nthe club.  If you lose this little card it is a .45€ fine.  It cost 8€ to be in the club but you do not pay until after you are done.  you can also
 drink as much until 8€ and it will still cost the same.   We walked down a spiral staircase into the 
club.  The first thing I noticed was that there were no windows in the club.  The club had lights 
everywhere, strobe lights, colored lights, and they also had a DJ in the club.  Most of the songs 
were american songs, but as soon as a german song came on I knew that it meant one thing, it was
 a german soccer song and every guy in the club would belt out the song as loud as they possibly
 could.  the club was decroated with stars from hollywood in america, and they had painting 
everywhere.  there were two bars in teh club as well, and although there wre stripper poles there
 were no strippers....thankfully.  The dance floor was at first not crowded, but as soon as people 
began to drink the floor became crowded.  There was not a certain dance style in the club either. 
 However you wanted to dance you could, some people were dirty dancing, others were 
freestyling, some jumping, some robot danced, and others just moved aroud in circles.  There 
were also people who would do what was called the disco fox.   The dancing was great in the club  
and the songs were easy for me to understand because they were american songs.  I had only two drinks in the club and they were called copa´s.   It was a lemon-aid beer thing,  I only had two because one of the ruled being and exchange student is that you can drink when your famiy offers you a drink but do not drink to get drunk.  I would not drink for that reason to begin with, but I had two because it is more of a social type of drink in teh club.  I also found out that when you meet new people instead of shaking your hand they either hug you and rub your back or touch your waist and say hello.  They do not do this sexually at all for that manner, but it will take some time getting used to guys hugging me and rubbing my back.  Actually how I found out that they did this is I met fabian, a really gorgeous guy friend of caro´s.  No worries mom, he has a girlfriend :).  Anyway I was leaving the club and he gave me a hug, and than I pulled away and said that I was sweaty and hot, because it really was hot in the club because there are no windows.  Fabian touched my waist gave me another hug, rubbed my back and said tchuse.  I  smiled because I had no clue what he was doing, he did not speak english and I could not speak german, so smiling is really the only thing I did when people were talking to me.  The night was overall very fun, and in germany people are really interested that I have a drivers liscense.  Well that is one good experince that I will take with me.  I will also have some more on the way because I am going shopping today for some shoes, and than going to fantasia land tomorrow; which is a huge rollercoaster theme park.  Well Disco Disco Hollywood.
 

4 comments:

Holly said...

That sounds so fun! Are many people into the punk kind of look there?

Lukas B. said...

Well, they probably weren't in the club, right Hannah?
I love reading about your experiences here in good old Germany, because I myself had to try to assimilate all the new impressions and the new environment as someone totally strange. But at least I was able to talk the right language ;)
Don't worry though, once you kind of understand what "we" say you'll get the hang of it. And guess what!!!
Smiling was all I did when I had no clue what was going on... it helps with everything :) And Germans like when you say thank you often and show your appreciation.
By the way: chuse is eigentlich (actually) tschüss. And it is "Marmelade"...and, and, and....
Glad you like it so far here,
have a great time, I'll stop by and visit someday soon.
Lukas (former in Chadron)

AbbyAllen said...

COOOOOOL! Hannah it sounds so fun! I'm glad to hear that you are sticking to the drinking rules!

Sheri said...

The club sounds really interesting. I bet the clothing styles are very different from here as well. I'm glad to see you are very responsible about the rules for being an exchange student!! Love You, Sheri