category: Field Report

I just got back from a lovely date with a 23 year old Turkish student I met on yesterdays’ session. We met up at SBahn Warschauer Straße and went for a stroll over the Sunday market on RAW Gelände. The vibe was relaxed and I felt she was happy to see me. This confirmed my suspicion that she liked me because she was eager during texting. She gave a time constraint of 40-60 minutes as she had to catch her bus to Warsaw at 16h and wanted to “complete some things before that”. So I got us a coffee and decided to take her to the Modersohnbrücke1. On the way I did some light kino: touching her shoulder, upper arm, elbow, slightly bumping into her hips. She was accepting it but didn’t reciprocate. I asked her what she thought of my cold approach yesterday to which she replied that she thought “I looked cute”. I can work with. ...

This has to be my best daygame session so far: 11 approaches with 4 contacts, all of which replied to my feeler text. I went clubbing in Berghain the night before and only got home at 06:30. Needless to say, waking up at noon I felt a bit groggy. Nevertheless, I set out on what was to be a productive daygame session. My first two opens were a bit timid. Especially, the second one completely lacked intent: shoulders hunched forwards, weak “excuse me”, supplicating hand wave.. The girl quickly brushed me off (and was right in doing so). I decided to do better and focus on practicing competent daygame by deliberately drilling my side-stops that day. ...

On a warm Sunday afternoon in Prague as I was daygaming with my wing, I saw her passing by in a short dress with leopard print. She was born in a small Czech village but moved to Prague for adventure At first I let her walk past but soon regretted it. “I think I just weaseled that girl” I told my wing. He knew who I meant. Well, why don’t you go open her then? He answered. I dashed off across the busy shopping street and caught up with her 500m later… ...