Our goals for the weekend were simple: relax after a stressful week, explore the city, and make friends. I believe we succeeded on all three accounts.
Friday we had dinner at Barney's which is right on the ocean and we were told would give us an "American College Bar-type experience". This was very true. We stayed after dinner and had some drinks as more and more people piled in. There was a band that played and a party for a rugby team. We ended up meeting quite a few people. PE is known as the "Friendly City" and so far I think this is fitting. Random people would hear our accents and come up to ask where we were from, what we were doing in PE, etc. Exchanged numbers and ended up moving locations with a group of people to this little bar called Castros.
On Saturday we joined a gym - Virgin Active. This experience was actually quite humorous for me. It reminded me of the Friends episode where Chandler wants to quit the gym and can't do it and Ross ends up joining in the end. Everyone was super perky and upbeat. We spent 45 minutes talking about our goals, why we wanted to join, and filling out paperwork. Jimmy and Will said they wanted to "stay fit" for their reason to join and the girl helping us looks at them and says, "That's it? You don't want to add some muscle or anything?" It was so funny. Both boys just looked around and responded "sure...i guess...yea". Pretty funny.
After our elongated sign-up we got a tour of the facilities - it is a nice gym and they wanted to put us through a whole program where we would see our body fat, get a work out plan, make a diet, etc. I just wanted to get on a treadmill! Good work out in the end and I am happy with the gym.
We started our night at Barney's again. Another live band played, but bad old American music. It was funny listening to the song choices the two nights we were there. A lot of classic rock - Thunderstruck, Sweet Home Alabama, etc. Friday night the band played "Scotty Doesn't Know" from Eurotrip not once, but TWICE! It was actually super funny.
Anyways, we moved on to Balizza Saturday, a club that former interns rave about. It was good, but we met less people so I would rate Friday as the superior evening. The greatest part about this weekend however is that Will is leading as the recipient of free drinks! Guys think he's hilarious and love buying him drinks!
It is quite strange though, the difference in crowd from our time at work and our time out around our house. At the bars it's mostly white people. One person even said that he thought we were brave and would never go to Motherwell - a township that we work out of. It seems the city and the townships do not mix much if at all. It's a very strange world to step into, especially as someone straddling both terrains.
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