Hitchhiking Adventure Leipzig
Hello hello everyone It’s been a while but that doesns’t make the story less interesting right 😉 On Friday November 15 my hitchhike adventure to Leipzig began! At 6 am, not a minutelater, Antoni and I were ready to catch our first ride at the hitchhike spot near Sontplein. We(read: Antoni) started with chucking a beer (most important things first right) to get somepoints for the minute games. After this it was time to take a selfie in our matching outfits,together with our mascot Eckie. Within 10 minutes we got our first ride from 2 students who were going to Berlin for theweekend. So we were off to a great start! We did a lot of minute games together with themlike doing push ups and karaoke (we sang along with sugardaddy, yes really). They droppedus off at a gas station near Bremen where we got some free coffee from the very generousemployee <3 We then got a ride to hannover, from 3 guys, who were drinking red bull, playing hard styleoh and not to forget: they drove a BMW. I was pretty happy. Or well I couldn’t be happierwith our vibe in the car. The guys were going to EuroTier. You’re probably wondering whatthat is. Well, it is the biggest farming fair in Europe (yes the guys were farmers). What Antoniand I didn’t know tho, is that they were going to drop us off at this fair… Time for asidequest!We walked and walked until we got to the highway where there was a pedestrian bridge(why would you even build that??) which led us to a gas station on the highway. We werekind of stranded there. Nobody wanted to bring us into the direction of Leipzig. So wedecided to do some minute games like the gender blender! Don’t we look hot? After this, we decided to start looking for alternatives, like a flixbus or blablacar. We decidedto get a blablacar from the city of Hannover if we weren’t able to get a ride before 5. But thensomething happened. We met a really lovely busdriver who wanted to drop us off at anothergas station. The committee wanted to disqualify us because we took a ride from a bus butthe bus wasn’t even in service, nobody else was in there even…. And this guy basicallysaved us! At the next gas station, we were able to get a ride into the city of Hannover from an Egyptianguy where we were dropped of at another gas station. Here our misery came to an endwhen we got our next ride within a few minutes to Magdeburg! We were so happy!!! Until wearrived at the gas station in Magdeburg, where other AEGEEans were waiting as well. Wewere there with 5 couples or something so the game was on! Antoni was smart enough to pair up with another duo who were able to get a ride for the fourof us! Thank you so much Mette! Although the driver was a bit sketchy, was probably highon drugs and had a lot of grocery bags in his car, all filled with alcohol, it was a pretty goodlast ride of the day. He dropped us off in Leipzig where we took a tram to the central stationand finally arrived at the hostel around 7 pm . It was a long day but it was all worth it <3 I hope you enjoyed reading about our hitchhike adventure and see you somewhere inEurope! XOXOJennifer
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