It took some time to recover from the incident of the Dorm That Never Sleeps. Luckily for me and my sanity, I soon discovered that life overseas is not always about Adventure and Experience. Sometimes it’s got a lot more to do with Slothing Around.

I studied in Konstanz for a year so couldn’t always be on the road. There were months of just living life in Germany, which tended to involve lots of beer and bratwurst, and little of anything else. I found this diary extract just recently.

sixteen days in konstanz: a summary

- ratio of daily sleeping to waking hours: 16:8
- amount it’s rained: enough to flood most of southern Germany, Switzerland and a little bit of Austria
- what I’ve achieved: coveted title of World’s Most Bored and World’s Laziest Person (aka Best Impression of a Sloth award)
- nights we’ve ended up at the world’s tackiest club, ‘Dance Palace’, just because there’s simply nothing else to do: 12
- kilometres run in effort to exercise: 0.4
- sit-ups completed: 4
- serious attempts to find work on ‘Das Boot’ (a party boat that sails the lake on Friday nights): 1. Ended in failure because unbeknownst to us we happened to be recruited for ‘Erotisches Nacht’ and personally I’m just not broke enough yet to work topless…
- Critical injuries: 1: the burning of Steve (my flatmate who was accidentally set alight when another, slightly unhinged visitor threw lighter fluid on the barbecue. Doesn’t help that at the moment the most popular song on German radio is the new Anastacia one called ‘Everyone burned’…