Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Dating Game

When it comes to dating, I could never claim to be an expert. In fact, I don't think I've been on a date - at least not one where both parties where aware it was a date - since I was in graduate school. Sure there were a few instances in the gray area of "hanging out," one in which a guy offered not to go to law school if I wanted to date him and another where I asked a guy at 1 a.m. if he would walk me to my car and he said, "No, I think I'm going to have another beer." Needless to say, those things didn't work out so well.

A friend of a friend, however, may be a certified expert on dating when she completes a project she's undertaken in her spare time. After a break up, she decided to go on 50 dates with men from 50 different countries. She started a blog in June so I am just catching up on the entries since I heard about it over the weekend. So far she details what prompted her to start her project, how she is gathering her dating partners, and most interesting are the recaps of the actual dates.

My own experience with international men is limited to crushes on a few foreign exchange students in high school, and of course, the lovely Irish boys I knew in Coleraine. For the most part, I have enough trouble communicating with men who speak the same language as me, so I wish this blogger luck with her foreign-born dates.

I can't imagine that I will ever go on a total of 50 dates in my entire life - the whole idea seems like it would require a heck of a lot of energy - but I do admire her for putting herself out there.

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