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I Accidentally Promised to Perform a Striptease for a Bunch of Germans
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Particularly when you’re promising to take off all your clothes
This was in Berlin, in the heady days pre-Brexit, when you could just up and move to another EU country without even so much as thinking the word “visa”. I’d always enjoyed learning German in school and kick myself to this day for not studying it at degree level. So the next best thing, I decided, was to move to Germany and study in house, as it were.
So, I found myself a flatshare with five young German guys, enrolled in intensive language classes and got on with the business of establishing a life in a foreign land.
It turns out, I picked well when it came to flatmates. They were super friendly, accommodating of my slow and clumsy attempts to communicate with them in their native tongue and always invited me to their frequent parties and introduced me to their friends.
So it was that I came to be holding court in the living room with a group of young Berliners. I moved about a bit during my time in Berlin, and it was my last night in the flat before moving on. Someone asked me what I was doing the next day and told them I…
