Hi guys, today I decided to do max 10 approaches till I fail. Meaning If i fail after my first attempt I will try again and again till I hit 10.

Apparantely I only did 2 approaches today because both of them worked. I had no idea how much time was passed.

So I have moved to a different country and I don't speak their native language this is my biggest hurdle right now. SO I am learning some basics of the language to at least strike a conversation.

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Approach 1 : it was near lake , I was clicking photos and wanted to click my own photo too. I am not good with selfies. SO I asked a girl who was seating and eating snacks and watching the view. I was bit hesitant because she was eating and thought maybe it's not right. But In my mind I thought never mind, it never hurts to try. So I counted to 3 and walker over to her and asked her to click a picture in my broken language.

I got pretty warm reaction "yeah sure why not" . Don't worry about the food it was almost finished anyway. So I got some picture near lake. From here I started the normal conversation.

Hi I'm xxx and what's your name. From here conversation went smoothly. Conversation went from generic what I do for living, why am I here to family, travel and more interesting topics.

We kept walking around the lake and later I got the number and we have planned our next meet too :) . It will be a small trip to next city that we both want to see.

Overall very nice experience.

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Approach 2 : I missed my bus and was waiting for the next one. A girl was also waiting with her dog. I just striked conversation with the dog (LOL). I genuinely love dogs. She was laughing and then we started the conversation ( same routine, how , how what and then other topics study, work etc.). This time I got so engrossed in the conversation that I forgot to take any contact info and my bust stop arrived. We said bye and when I reached my apartment I realized oh I forgot to get the contact info but whatever. I had fun day.

Summary : Try to enjoy your day and if situations can be created try to create it. In my case clicking photos and petting the dog. My approach might not be the best approach but the goal today was to enjoy my day while trying to approach. I got nice pictures of lake and sunset got to pet a dog so it was good day for me.