Semester-Beginn Party

... is their big party for all the first semester students to come and dance and have fun. So, because approx. everyone I know is in Bonn/Köln this weekend, I decided to go w/ Charlie (also american and w/ IES) and my two guy roommates.
It started out as a pretty nice evening: Charlie brought down some wine and we had nice chit chatting time for about an hour, get to know you time. Then we went to the party which turned out to be just a party of waiting. We had to wait like an hour standing in line to get tickets to get inside. Then we had to wait to put up coats, and wait to get drinks, and it was just lame. There were far too many people to be able to really move, and since everyone came in groups there really wasn't that much of meeting people. I did eventually meet one guy, who was italian and nice but somewhat almost creepy? Not really, but after talking to him for like, 15 min I said Ihad to go meet Dominik and Leander (Charlie we lost while waiting for drinks. Seriously. The most packed crowds ever) and so I left to go stand by our meeting point. Just my luck, the italian guy found me again and while waiting offered that if I couldn't find my friends I could just spend the night with him and his friends in the youth hostel in Freiburg. Let me tell you how hard that was to turn down. Fortunately, Dominik appeared in a couple of minutes and we left shortly thereafter.
Moral of the story: smaller parties are so much more fun. don't go to parties by yourself, it sucks. the safety of having a circle of girls around, to save you from creepy guys and to have fun with, just can't be beat. mmmmm. unless it's a circle of really hot guys ;-).
*are these times contagious?*