The sun-drenched days were full of summertime fun, like playing beach volleyball, soaking up the warm Mediterranean sun on the pebbled beach or just having a Coke at a café and talking with some tourists. But, when nightfall came the disco infested city turned into an international orgy of fist fights, firecrackers, drug dealing and strip teasing. This depicts the first half of my summer vacation in the northeastern part of Spain. In this article I am going to talk about my adventures working for a disco in a small, but seasonally explosive city known as Lloret de Mar.

I traveled to the cosmopolitan city of Lloret de Mar, because I knew it had an abundance of discotheques. I thought that this would guarantee me a job, because I had experience working for a disco in Italy a year ago. As a journalist or just a person interested in culture, Lloret is a great city to meet people from all over Europe and the rest of the world. As I worked for one of the discos in Lloret, it gave me the opportunity to make friends with people from different walks of life and immerse myself with people from many different countries and cultures.

Lloret de Mar is a coastal resort town in the Costa Brava region of northeastern Spain. It's known mainly for being a summer blast of discotheque partying. It's like an American spring break in the summer. Compare it to Panama City or Daytona, Florida, but with many more clubs and people from different countries rather than different states.

I arrived in Lloret with little money, no job, no credit cards and a hostel booked for only two days. Naturally, I was worried about everything, but I trusted myself, because I had no one else to trust. When you're all alone in a foreign country and need a job to survive, you have to trust yourself and you have to believe you're smart enough to survive. In the end, not only did I survive, I flourished in Lloret and made a name for myself.

The job I went looking for is what the Spanish call "Propaganda," and the name of the person who does the job is called a "Proper." A Proper's job is to basically stand out in the streets and in one way or another, convince people to come to the disco that you work for. The minimum number each Proper is responsible for is ten people per night, which was difficult for me to achieve at first.

Lloret de Mar has a local population of only 35,000 people, but in the summer season there are more than 200,000 tourist who flock to this Mediterranean oasis. To accommodate the tourist, Lloret offers more than 40 discos, bars and clubs, over a hundred hotels and hostels and two beaches to momentarily break away from the nightly madness of non stop partying. In a city like this, it's imperative for every disco to have a team of Propers to pull tourists in.

I searched for my hostel in the maze like walls of the city center. After about two hours of walking up and down the streets I found the hostel that I booked on the internet and relaxed for no longer than five minutes. Not wasting any time I walked down the street that my hostel was on and within a few blocks I stumbled upon a group of Propers handing me flyers. I asked them where I could find a job doing what they are doing and one girl pointed me to the disco MOEF GA GA. It was good advice, because I ended up working at MOEF GA GA for the next month and that group of people became my colleagues and friends for the next month too.

To be continued.............