I had already gathered some experience in the world of hostels but actually living in one made me realize there is a pattern in the personalities that choose to come in the hostel instead of a hotel or a airbnb.
! I will use female identities because 1: female power and 2: I am not writing he/she every time !
1. The Life of the Party This person seems perfect, she is kind, fun loving, adventurous. It seems like her whole life is this hostel, she's always there to help people, to socialize or to start a social. Even if she arrives late, you can bet that the next day everybody will know her name, where is she from and what languages she speaks and tries to speak. She usually has a really cool not-so-hidden talent like a really good singing voice, either really skilled in playing the guitar or has mad drawing game. New adventure? Sign her up.
2. The Druggie
She is almost as popular as The life of the party. She might have some staple accessories like really read eyes and Perfume de Marijuana. She actually is kind of the life of the party because she gained her popularity by having all sorts of things that can make a party either unforgettable either already forgotten. She sleeps by the day and lives by the night, when she meets most of her friends and amazes them by her amazingly huge knowledge of Dealers and Where to Find Them.
3. The Silence of the Lambs
She is the one you never heard talking. The legend says that she did the check-in without saying a word. You don't know anything about her and neither does the host who claims that even her passport was blank. This leaves us not knowing anything about her: not her name, not her country and definitely not knowing if you can trash talk her as she might understand everything you say and turn into the Hannibal she might be on the inside. 4. Just Please Shut Up The opposite of the previous one. It seems that even her breathing is waaaaaaay too loud. You can be sure that she only carries around plastic bags and ship bags in her backpack and always needs the one from the bottom. Most of the times is someone with separation issues and a boyfriend which leads her to talk all the time on the telephone or face-time. She can't even sleep, she needs the small talk to survive so much that sometimes she wakes up at 6 am and calls her beloved friends who might be in a much more appropriate timezone than you and the rest of the room. You can tell that not a single thing makes her not regret that she ever left the people that surrounded her in the first place.
5. Missing
She must maximize her experience when visiting another city because if she doesn't see every touristy and non touristy sight she is gonna have major FOMO. This is why you never saw her but you know she exists, you can see her luggage. You can only spot a shadow now and then whilst murmuring to yourself: She was here. Ninja who? They got their training from her.
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