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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Having enough confidence to approach a complete stranger to strike up a conversation is 95% of the battle. As a Canadian in Australia, you've got a natural advantage here. Just tell girls your situation and ask about places they think you should visit while you're there. Instant ice-breaker! Plus they'll think you're foreign and exotic and will likely have many questions about Canada.
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Total advantage. I was in Toronto a few months ago for work. My jr. co-worker and I went to a club one night. Ugh I felt so old. Everyone was clearly in their early 20s, but I wanted my jr. co-worker to have a good time. He's incredibly shy around girls. Like debilitatingly shy. So I kept trying to goad him into talking to a girl and dancing with her. He just couldn't. So I told him it's easy and gave him a demonstration.
Now I'm probably about a decade older than most of the people in the club, if not more, and hadn't done much clubbing in probably a good 6-7 years. Plus I'm not the hottest thing to look at. I'm also in a long-term relationship so I wasn't gonna go and do anything awful stupid. But within about 2 mins, I approached this 20 year old hottie, telling her that we were from Calgary on business, just having a good time, and that my friend was really shy but wanted to talk to her. Joked around with her and convinced her to dance with him for a while. Unfortunately he remained silent during the dance and continued to talk to me after instead.
After that, all night I had a pretty good groove going. I would talk to people (guys and girls) at random. Guys and girls were talking to me at random. And this is on top of me being relatively old for being at a club. But being in Toronto from Calgary was an easy opener. Should be wicked simple for you. On a side note, that was a good time. Brought back memories of my 20s lol.
Anyway moral of the story: Don't fret about your looks. Don't try to impress. Actually don't worry about what a girl thinks about you period. Just be funny, confident, not creepy, lovey and clingy and girls will not reject you.