well, here i am in sunny gran canaria, a little spec on the map but there is plenty of night life and Saturday night is all night till however long you can last.

anyway, i went out late, on my own, around 1 in the morning. Things until then are so quiet.

So, i went sarging on my own. this is my fifth night out since i have been learning the game.
I will try to be as brief as possible.

so...

get to bar 1. go upstairs to toilet first. while checking out the whole bar.

19 April 2009
12:50

I came back down. There is a three set that I had opened on my second night out. They are nice gals and the night i opened them i was 100% confident and they liked my energy and we struck it off but i got stuck in the LJBF zone and either way, i feel OK with that. Due to being around the babes in bar 1, I was a bit hangy I made no approaches there.

They were leaving so they said to me if i wanted to bounce to location 2. I said OK. I get social proof right arriving at the second bar with three babes?

Anyway, I was cool. The brunnette was dancing around me but she and I knew where we were at. I felt OK with her and she was like talking to me with her hand on my arm quite a bit. I made 2 approaches and whereas the first night out, I made the approaches and after there was a sense of somehow having being rejected.
Last night I did the approaches and there was no sense of having being rejected. I simply was asking for information and doing it in a fascinating way. The girls in no way felt threatened.

1. Me: hey do you work in the airport? [said in English]
Her. que?
Me- trabajas en el aeropuerto?
Her: no.
Me: well, there is a girl who looks just like you.[rest in spanish]
Her. Poor soul. He he ha ha
Me. Hehe ha ha

I did this a couple of times. Neither times, did the girls treat me like a creep or ignore me. Cool shit. I didn't try to take the conversation.
Being in the lJBF zone with the three set, I felt quite inhibited because they would have been aware of my rejection if I did loads of approaches. So, after an hour or so when the bar admittedly was rocking. I bounced.

I went to the last bar. I made three approaches. I used the cool, wish you were here approach i had read yesterday evening on this forum on another thread. It was 4.30 in the morning. I approached a babe who was probably ten years younger or more than me on her own. She was wearing these black stockings and a mini and Jesus was rocking the house. I went over and explained the deal. She accepted and so I tapped on the back of some guy in front to take the photo. He was amiable enough but his friend was drunk and started AMOGing. He realised what I was doing tried to get in on the action. Putting his arm around the babe. And i could see that she was regretting having allowed me take the photo. Anyway, she put the paper which says, "Derek, wish you were here" around her waist and looked pretty sexy. I got the photo anyway, tried for the email close and failed, and she then said, can you keep my seat for a minute. Of course she had just left.

Then i did another two approaches with the wish you were here opener and crashed and burned. There was a group of blondes who thought they were 10's maybe 8's when you get close. They were with guys and i thought that i could get into deep water if the guys take the photo deal wrong. But fuck it. I did it and crashed and burned. The girls looked at me like i was a weirdo. It was after 5 and i was not exactly buring on all cylinders. I left worried about what the last group must have thought about me, quite fucked up by the whole thing. But I did it!!! I have never approached such a large group.

So there you go. Thanks for reading guys. As you can see I am still at the stage of handling my approach anxiety. I am starting to feel more confident. What do I say after, "well there is a girl who looks just like you in the airport?" these are just some of the things that I must sort out to progress in a positive way.

I feel like I have the opener down great and can do that. Now I want to learn to go beyond that.