Love abroad

Let's not kid ourselves here, most girls travel/study in Europe to meet some handsome Italian man named Vincenzo who will sweep them off their feet with wine and pizza. Eventually the two of them will throw caution to the wind and get married despite all odds (love knows no borders). I think they end up owning a vineyard and/or a quaint little bookstore in Tuscan village too...am I wrong? (ed. note: I have no idea why boys travel)

So in honor of this here is a list of all my/my friends fabulous European men (not one was named Vincenzo, and I don't see the vineyard in any of our futures).

1. Anthony from Ireland- We ate fried chicken and listened to Puddle of Mud together at 3AM, PLUS he was there the night we met Harry Potter and let me call my sister long distance on his phone. I genuinely didn't even care that he had a hemp necklace or a thumb ring!! He also took all of us to Robert's cove and dared us to go swimming in the 50 degree water. Who says romance is dead!

2. Pierre- Pierre said he was french, but I kinda think he was full of shit. Either way he said that he would make out with his buddy if I'd give him a kiss. If that's not the best pick-up line ever, I don't know what is. (p.s. he did)

3. Some Swiss guy. This is why I had to add my friend's conquests as well. This guy couldn't speak a lick of english so he and my friend had to draw pictures and play charades all night, until they got over it and just ended up making-out to techno music. Language is nothing.

4. Luc- Me and Alissa met Luc in Rome at the beach. We were splashing around and he came to play catch with us and ask us questions about Michigan. We never saw him again but he was without a doubt the best looking boy I have ever seen.

5. Anil- I actually thought his name was Neil until about 5 minutes ago when I looked him up on facebook. He and my friend talked about swords and pretended they were boyfriend/girlfriend for two days. Thats the best part about meeting abroad. You can play pretend (you can even get mad when they hit on someone else at the bar) and then you never have to see them again. They even took pictures together in front of major tourist attractions. AWWWWW

6. Some Italian guy whose name I don't remember- He said corny shit like your "eyes are as beautiful as the ocean," he also told me his watch was waterproof. He barely spoke English and wore a faded jean jacket. Oh right and he was 38.

7. Two German boys- Me and my friend both had one, until they started grinding together at the club. Buzz kill.

8. Tom- I met Tom on the train, we couldn't sleep because a gypsy was outside our cabin window so we just passed notes all night. Then he let all of us crash at his place in London even though we were dirty and smelly. We're still friends.

9. Irish kid- My friend and I met this faggle in Prague. He was a total creep but he took us to some fabulous bars so we pretended he wasn't. At the end of the night he just latched on to my friends neck like he fed off blood. Not cute.

10. Dan and Kev- These two were mad chill and they "dated" both my friends in Ireland. They took us to a lot of cool places and bought as beer. We told dead baby jokes and made them quit their real lives in order to hang out with us. We met back up with them in Scotland the following year but by then we were all out of dead baby jokes.

There are actually a ton more, because more likely than not you will fall in love in every single new country you go to. That's the point. You can also pretend that it's really serious and heavy and then leave before you both find out how boring and issue riddled each of you are. As for boys, I have literally never seen an American boy score with a European girl. Try another continent, or just stick with Canadians.