The Pink Bubble

Well it’s been a while its I last posted on here, life is as life has always been here at The Pink Palace a fake version of reality or as we call it “The Pink Bubble” where you can go for weeks and months not knowing any news, I only found out today about the hurricane that’s gaining in size or something over in Americas direction, and the riots in good old England a couple of days after it had started. Being back in reality will be very odd, where waking up at 4am after sleeping going for a drink at the bar in your PJ’s then going back to bed isn’t seen as strange, and where the bartenders ask each other if they did anything stupid the night before because they’ve drunk too much and then finding out that they’d been snogging guests over the night club bar when working and it being accepted as something that is fine. The bubble is a very unique place, but one of the best places to be.

We had a very interesting toga night a last week where we’d had a group of 3 boys who had been here the week before, and then decided they would come back but bring a group of 20 other Australian boys with them. So first happy hour at the reception bar was crazy! Then it was a very loud evening meal. When they all finally got into their togas and appeared in the club, the dance floor became mayhem! One of the guys must have got confused and wore a purple dress with no boxers on underneath to the toga party along with his “Hello Kitty” hand bag, proceeded to show everyone everything all the time when he was dancing.

Recently I have been doing some bar work in the afternoon when Mahi has had to go back up to the house, I made my first cocktail, a Sex On The Beach, and poured my first draft beer, which later on I found out Mahi had seen me pour as she had been watching on the security cameras to make sure I was okay. Which although is a kind thought, laughing at the fact it ended up being pretty much all head and not much beer for the first one and me pouring it down the sink to try again, wasn’t so kind.

For 2 weeks in a row the staff had “Wild Card Wednesdays” unbeknown to the guests, where any staff member who wanted to play would receive a task that they had to complete that night, tasks varied from snogging someone of the same sex, convincing someone that you had a sex change, convince someone that you were in a porno and try to get them to go up to the room to see the video. Well most staff members managed their challenges and it made for a very funny couple of Wednesdays.

Friday nights are song request nights, which although it’s great to have some different music playing you get all the cheesy music playing and it isn’t the most interesting night, to liven things up a bit Amy the night events girl made Chinese origami things with all sorts of dare on the inside like swapping clothing with the opposite sex, doing the beer bong, kiss a stranger, buy a round, which made the night much more interesting and extremely funny!

It’s now starting to reach the end of the season and things are quietening down and staff are starting to leave as their contracts are up, each time members of staff are leaving most the staff stay up and get drunk the night before, and it’s sad to think I know have less than a week left, although I am ready to go home and see everyone again.

This Wednesday we had a toga night as a big holiday group of 67 Italians will be leaving before Saturday and so they were going to be missing out on the best night of the week. Although we didn’t have many guests, pretty much all of them purchased a toga and were there at the Ouzo Circle and so it was great fun. There were 3 English men there who were on leave from the army and they decided to buy 100 shots of loads of different things, and 8 or 9 of us then proceeded to play drinking games with the shots which was so funny, and some of the coordination needed and paying attention to the whole game was not there for all of us, and if you went wrong you ended up having to have a shot.

I got my exam results on the 18^th of August, sadly I didn’t get into university, and now I’m really stumped as to what I want to do instead, but I guess in time something will come up.

Busy, Empty, Busy...

Well a while has gone by since I last posted and a lot of things have just been the same but with different people. With one week having people still sat at the top bar when you go to work at 9am who were there at 10pm the previous night and hadn’t moved from their stools. Those who are that drunk that they don’t know how much they’re spending or how much they’re tipping the barman. To the next week being dead and barely anyone here, when the dance floor is normally packed there are only a couple of people on and a couple more when the smoke machine goes on.

During the ouzo circle there is Greek dancing and a table and chair with lots of bottles of drink get lifted up by someone using their teeth, the other night Dr. George did some Greek dancing and did the table lifting, which doesn’t happen very often, and so he got a big round of applause.

Wednesday nights are now wildcard Wednesdays for the staff and you pick out a random piece of paper out of a hat and it has a task on that you must complete that night such as “convince someone you used to be of the opposite sex”, “every time some says yamas you have to flash”  etc…

One of the new events is Match Maker Monday and after dinner you go down stairs sign up and get given a number, you then walk around do whatever for about 30mins with your number somehow attached to you, after that everyone has to go on to the dance floor and they do a woman’s parade, then a men’s parade and each person is given a piece of paper and they can write down 3 different numbers of people they like. A few staff then spend 10 minutes filling in a big chart, and then checking the chart to see if any matches have been made where 2 people have put down each other’s numbers. This week was the first week we ran it and we had nearly 100 people sign up and 14 successful matches, so over all it went well.

Last night I learnt that Romanians play pool with completely different rules to what I’m used to and when you pot the ball just before the black one, then whichever pocket you pot that ball into, you can only pot the black ball into the opposite pocket.

Tonight is meant to be karaoke and song request night which should be interesting as once again it is the first time it has been run. Starting to worry a bit as its only 13days to exam results.