Susan Engkent

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Age :

26

City :

Toronto

Traveller Type :

spontaneous

Last Visited Country :

United Kingdom

My travelling story

DISCLAIMER: All my accents tend to sound like Cold War-era B-movie villains. It's something I'm working on.

By the way, the above story does not concern the oddest hostel I stayed in. That award probably goes to the one in Florence--that time, I DID book ahead, and ended up sleeping on a cot. It was jammed up against the next (actual) bed, so when I woke up in the middle of the night, I was practically spooning some girl whose name I'll never know. We didn't end up being both conscious and in the room at the same time during my stay.

I wonder if she still thinks of me... (cue sappy music).

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28 comments

  1. Priscilla Portsmouth says:

    I'm hoosted-out. good luck!

  2. Neal Sengupta says:

    SUSAAAAAAAN! You ROCK! Good luck to ya and Happy Halloween!

  3. Magnus Ver Magnusson says:

    i'm all hoosted out. goodluck!!

  4. Sandy Lai says:

    2500 to your cause!

  5. wynne kirsti says:

    how may hoosts am i s'posed to get a day? i only had a thou and i haven't been on in a while!

  6. sarah carpenter says:

    good luck susan. i will take you up on the alibi one of these days.

  7. Frances Cooper says:

    1800 hootsies!

  8. Gregor Novaski says:

    2500 hoosts as of today. Go team.

  9. sarah carpenter says:

    1200 hoosts just for you, only b/c you look hot w a moustache

  10. Lillian Rundle says:

    Don't lower your expectations just change your perspective (or something like that...) Really liked your video. Enjoy the journey!

  11. Susan Engkent says:

    Thanks! Sadly, I never made it to Bratislava. But maybe someday I'll go. I'm assuming that when I arrive, choirs of angels will sing, rainbows will criss-cross the sky, and the citizens will rejoice, for I will have finally realized my destiny to see BRATISLAVA! (Or do you think my expectations are too high?)

  12. Neal Sengupta says:

    Haha.. EPIC video!! Did you ever end up visiting your BFF in Bratislava?

  13. Magnus Ver Magnusson says:

    have my babies....

  14. Susan Engkent says:

    Thank you, everybody! Sharon, you get 100 hoosts per day, and you can give them out by typing the number you want to give in the little box under my total. Then click "give out hoosts" and you're done! Well, that is, until the next time you sign in, when you should feel free to give me hoosts again! (Shameless self promotion is my new thing.)

  15. Sharon Meade says:

    I have signed up to give you my hoosts and yet I still have 100 - did I do this wrong? I need a tutorial or a teenager to help me.

  16. Maisie Kwan says:

    My hoosts are now your hoosts. Have an awesome time in Bratislava! Errr... France.

  17. Ellen Tsang says:

    Okay Susan, I'm all hoosted out!

  18. Sandy Lai says:

    If I give you Hoosts, will you spoon me?

  19. wynne kirsti says:

    When i inter-railed through Europe in 1991, me n three friends got picked up by one of the 'old ladies' - she took us home and tried to marry one of my friends off to her 13-yr-old son! The poor thing had to play violin for my mortified friend whilst we tried not to laugh in the bedroom!

  20. Nanb vanpreston says:

    Good luck in your travels

  21. Magnus Ver Magnusson says:

    girl on girl action in florence...niiiice. 200 HOOSTS!!

  22. Jean-Francois Chainé says:

    AMAZING!

  23. Susan Engkent says:

    Thank you, everyone! I can tell you other charming anecdotes about hostels... FOR MORE HOOSTS.

  24. Magnus Ver Magnusson says:

    i love you...here's 100 Hoosts if you'll hold my hand...

  25. Isabelle Boyer says:

    I LOOOOOOOVE YOUR VID!

  26. Marie-Eve Lavoie says:

    Wow!! That is great :) You're very funny hehe Since i'm rich, here is 1000 hoösts!

  27. Julien Samson says:

    I really liked your Video. Particularly the Dramatization parts. Funny! Here some 200 Hoösts for the fun I had watching it. Good luck ! P.S. I liked your accent to ;)

  28. Émilie Bouchard Labonté says:

    What a nice video! And I really like your accents! :-) Good luck!

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