Cafe Dub

I love how inclusive Dutch people can be. I find that generally, if you put yourself with other Dutch people and aren't entirely socially backwards, they'll make an effort to bring you into the conversation. I had dinner with my Anthropology class last night. I'm the only American in the class. Instead of just talking to each other, they ask me how my courses are going like we've known each other forever. It wasn't hard to imagine them saying "Oh, you're from another planet, cool. How is that? Holland must be pretty different." This cute girl with big eyes invited me to an anthropology student party afterwards. I've wanted to be friends with her all semester because I like her jacket. I showed up, not knowing a single person besides her. I expected it to be supremely awkward because no matter how hard I try, I can't understand Dutch at parties over the music. That problem was solved because no one was talking, just dancing. They were such enormous dorks! There was a pole in the middle of the dance floor. Instead of being inappropriate with it, they decided it would be fun to skip around it in a sort of maypole dance. They had honest to goodness can can lines going on at 4 different points in the night. I saw a goth kid (Dutch goths crack me up by the way. Especially on bikes.) with a Marilyn Manson shirt and a spiked collar absolutely dancing his heart out to "Barbie Girl." N'Sync remixes, the songs Weird Al parodies. Everyone was bouncing around like 10 year olds at a sock hop or people in a New Pornographers music video. It was super. I wonder if other departments are as dorky. I can't imagine the law students wearing rugrats shirts to parties.