TOPIC: Geppetto AA Slaying WEEK 8

Im starting my journal here! im very late for this because i already started the drills, so im going to write what i've been doing so far

Signed petition, introduced myself here www.goodlookingloser.com/forums/introduc.../123881-hello#149579

Made POF and Cupid accounts, im having an hard time finding girls on those sites, not so common here where i live i guess

edit:
I write it here before i forget: i started personal exercises on my own in may 2014 (before knowing gll)

Day 4
Day 5
This drills went ok, before this i passed 2 months trying to say hi or giving quick compliments.
I wish i had started with asking the time, it would have been much less traumatic.
im writing this after some days since i've done the drills so i dont remember about the reactions, despite the fact that many suspected i was picking them up and somehow got a bit "scared" and quickly went away

DAY 6
Time, Leave
Time, Directions, Leave
Time, Directions, Have you been there?, Leave

So this drill was harder for sure, i had an hard time asking the "have u been there" question, because somehow it sounds more awkward
Many times i stopped to 2 questions instead of asking all 3
Sometimes they were walking away and i couldnt keep up asking questions.

I did this for 3 days until i felt better with it: i think i did about 30-35 approaches in total.

Day 7
Time, Leave (talk to very first girl you see; DONT let her slip by)
Time, Directions, Leave
Time, Directions, Have you been there?, Leave

I love this "get in there" thing.
i always had this problem of starting skipping girls and the the situation only gets worse.
This time i talked to the very first girl i saw, before taking the bus and it is so much better.
Also i really want to force myself not to skip girls: i feel that when im skipping, im avoiding those situations that makes me more unconfortable. Instead these are the situations that bring the real improvements, so i really need to force myself.

I did this drill too for another 2 days, until i was confortable enough with it.

DAY 8
Time, Leave (talk to very first girl you see; DONT let her slip by)
Time, Directions, Leave
Time, Directions, Have you been there?, Leave
Time, Directions, Have you been there?, Do you like it?, Leave

Drills done about 1 week ago since when i write this, it was hard to keep asking all the 4 question because sometimes they just walk away...
i always used to approach them walking in opposite directions so i was struggling with the thing of keeping them there to listen to me. Now i found that its better if start walking in their direction, even if i have to go a bit backwards.
i did this for 2 days.
A very nice thing that happened is that a girl i had previously asked the time, heard me asking it again to another...i didnt do this on purpose but im happy, helps with our social freedom i guess.
a good thing i made at the end is asking for the place where i was in that moment, which sounds stupid but again, its social freedom training

DAY 9
Time, Leave (talk to very first girl you see; DONT let her slip by)
Time, Have you ever eaten at [nearby restaurant]?, Leave
Time, Have you ever eaten at [nearby restaurant]?, Did you like it?, Leave

Im in a new city lately so asking this kind of stuff is quite good anyway.
Im asking even to older ppl because i have this fear that "i will waste all the hot girls with the drills" and the i will have few left to approach....this is maybe nonsense but my city is not so big, so i will really focus on asking to anyone, even mom and son and even older....i find these cases more difficult, i dont know how, maybe i feel they are more awkward.
I got some kind replies, and others ignoring me, but in general girls reacted well on this.
I managed to ask the third question even if they said they havent been there...but i was always so fast in asking it, as if i was worried about it. I need to say things more slowly and with more confidence

DAY 10
Time, Leave (talk to very first girl you see; DONT let her slip by)
Time, Do you know if there is a movie theater near here?, Leave
Time, Do you know if there is a movie theater near here?, Have you seen any good movies lately?, Leave

i went to a big shopping center which has a movie theater inside it.
Actually this place has not many girls, and the few are very young.
i approach young girls too if they are at least 2, otherwise they freak out.
I remember a mom with her son (she was about 18-19 and quite nice) the mom was almost pissed at my attempt to make questions while the girl was so nice. Good thing i approached them, bad thing i wasnt able to ask the "have u seen movies..." . I should ask everything anyway and not care, but its hard.
i stayed about 2 days, 2 hours each about 25 approaches

DAY 11
Time, Leave (talk to very first girl you see; DONT let her slip by)
Time, Is there a place that sells cell phones around here?, Leave
Time, Is there a place that sells cell phones around here?, What phone do you have?, Leave
Time, Is there a place that sells cell phones around here?, What phone do you have?, Do you like it? Leave

i did this few days ago.
So there's this street in the middle of the town, the most "cool" street where many shops are, and i find that everytime i approach there they freak out because they think im picking them up, and start to be more defensive.
It was hard to make the third question, if i add the fourth it seems more natural, but i had an hard time asking the third.
i had a very nice approach on 4 girls, i've never done such a large group, even if they were about 16-17 yo i guess...but as long as they are not alone i dont think they get scared. So i asked about their phones and one replied
"do u want to steal them?"
"nono, lets just make a survay"
so it went well
Repeated this 2 days.

DAY 12
Time, Leave (talk to very first girl you see; DONT let her slip by)
Time, Random question-Do you know anywhere that sells nice candles?, Leave
Time, Random question-Do you know anywhere that sells nice candles?, I'm planning a candlelit dinner for my girlfriend, Leave
Time, Random question-Do you know anywhere that sells nice candles?, I'm planning a candlelit dinner for my girlfriend, I'm the sweetest guy ever, Leave

I modified a bit, because i want to focus on the hardest questions, so the single question of the time i do it just for start, then i do 2-3-4/2-3-4 etc
Again, i write this after some days i've done the drill (im at day 14 atm) but i found this drill to be the hardest so far...not because its hard showing the sweet side, but because bringing that argument of the girlfriend feels just hard....
then even harder to say "im the sweetest guy ever"...at that point i always find they are leaving already and adding this last sentence its hard.
Anyway, something that happened is that i asked 2 times to the same girl without realizing it....
"u asked me for the time already"
"errr............ then do u know how much time has passed since i asked you? ok i feel this question is unfair"
"ok i tell u the time...but dont u have a clock?"
"sry my phone is down"
I liked my answer BUT i said it in such a weak way...i really need to improve the confidence in general, ok it was a bad situation and maybe some months ago i wouldnt even be able o reply but still....the sentence was good, why im so ashamed in the execution? hope it will get better.

So i did this for 2 days, the second day i was quite satisfied because i could say all the 4 questions....then i moved on with the drills but i think i will come back to this.

DAY 13

Time, Leave (talk to very first girl you see; DONT let her slip by)
Time, Random question- Do you know anywhere that sells good wine?, Leave
Time, Random question- Do you know anywhere that sells good wine?, I got a promotion at work/Passed my test at school and I want to celebrate, Leave
Time, Random question- Do you know anywhere that sells good wine?, I got a promotion at work/Passed my test at school and I want to celebrate, What type do you recommend?, Leave

i found this drill easier than the "sweet guy" one...even if im much more a sweet guy than im a drinker....anyway its just easier i think.
This went pretty ok and i wont repeat it.

DAY 14
Give 10 girls a high-five.
Guesstimate how long it took you and record it in your AA Log.
Repeat this 2 times today, you will high-five 20 girls in total.

Here we are...i feared this drill from the start. I did this for 3 days now:

first day: 2 hours walking, 1 hi5, about 20-30 approaches.
So there's a little problem with this, but i think i solved it now, that in italy we just dont use the high five....its just not common: some ppl think im greeting them, some think im selling them something...anyway since im not making excuses i really tried hard the second day and i found out this execution which i want to describe because it solved the problem for me:
i need a bit of space between me and the girl im apporaching, i have to slow down and stop, eye contact, raise hand, say something in italian which is about "come on come on" (there's no traslation for hi5 in italian) with the attitude that looks like im waiting for something. If i execute this with confidence they feel they have to do something and sometimes its the hi5.

So i tried this way a second day and a third day, in both cases i got one success out of every 4-5 tries (which is great compare to the first day)

Now in 3 days, i made about 60 hi5 approaches with about 15 "successes". I think i will move on here, because i feel i got good at this (this drill feels easier than the previous ones now) but there's this problem that ppl dont know or dont think about the hi5 here: it was funny that sometime i got a good reaction, like a smile and "hello!" .....but no hi5 because they dont understand it lol.
Great experience anyway, i surely wouldnt have been able at the start of the program to do this.

keep it up bro, im few days behind you on the drills