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Pillow Fight Club in Pittsburgh. What to expect.
This is the kind of thing that is just not done outside of America: too personal too fast. Europeans, for instance, are a lot less forward when it comes to expressing their craziness. Many of them do it by simply saying hello to strangers on the street... it doesn't work on Americans, though, who interpret it as mere friendliness. (I should post sometime on the Nash equilibrium that keeps Northern Europeans reluctant to be friendly to strangers).
Of course, it is possible to meet people spontaneously there too, but you should have some common ground, or a natural topic to begin with (late trains are a great of meeting new people in Holland!). Unlike in the USA, one should develop a little acquaintance & see positive responses (smiles, etc) before asking someone's name. I guess Europeans are a lot more privacy-minded this way.
So how do Europeans express their craziness? Well, some Dutch play Urban Golf.
This is the kind of thing that is just not done outside of America: too personal too fast. Europeans, for instance, are a lot less forward when it comes to expressing their craziness. Many of them do it by simply saying hello to strangers on the street... it doesn't work on Americans, though, who interpret it as mere friendliness. (I should post sometime on the Nash equilibrium that keeps Northern Europeans reluctant to be friendly to strangers).
Of course, it is possible to meet people spontaneously there too, but you should have some common ground, or a natural topic to begin with (late trains are a great of meeting new people in Holland!). Unlike in the USA, one should develop a little acquaintance & see positive responses (smiles, etc) before asking someone's name. I guess Europeans are a lot more privacy-minded this way.
So how do Europeans express their craziness? Well, some Dutch play Urban Golf.
