TIME: 13.00

We spend the afternoon visiting an ART display and e-mailing in the Ohio State University.

TIME: 19.00

The Brazilian receptionist in the hostel kindly allows us to get some beers in and we start our evening over a pizza. The same receptionist points us in the direction of the 'Cornerstone' bar. This proves to be successful and we continue to drink at the ridiculously cheap rate of $3.75 per 4 pints. By around 22.00 we are sufficiently intoxicated to confront properly, for the first time, American females... or so we thought. On the specific advice of a female student we had consulted in the afternoon, we stumble hopefully towards 'Bernie's'. Not put off by the $8 demanded on the door, we enter 'the bear pit' down a steep flight of stairs. There, instead of viewing a scene of pretty, young ladies, we slowly realize that we have paid for a front row ticket to a show of anarchy. The club is, in fact, a PUNK ROCK venue and the ensuing 10 minute ordeal will surely remain with us for the foreseeable future. The dancing involves 50 blokes beating each other up and is not the ideal place in which to introduce 'piss-take' dancing to this continent. We thus escape the seedy atmosphere and set off to the 'safe bar' we had drunk in the night before.

We are now hammered and successfully befriend a group of US students. Much banter follows, the highlight being Payno betting against one of his new Yank friends that this American will not be able to pull (snog), within the next five minutes, the sexy 'fly honey' that has just wiggled her pert backside into the bar. Payno wins, but only by 30 seconds! No luck for the English tonight as an early wake-up dictates that we abandon our friends at about 12.30pm.