I took my beer, smiled at the young woman and sat down a few feet away.
It's loud out there, informal in the corporate sense of the word: men with their jackets off, their striped shirts shiny, their watches big, all of them eating burgers, sliders, fries, draining beer, smiling at clients, on the sell.
His brother-in-law described him as a true patriot who loved a beer, "smiling with his family and listening to some music".
I'd never seen anything like it in my life — and all I could do in response was crack open a beer, smile and take the whole scene in.
He still went nightly to the bars to sit over his beers, smiling in a nervous sort of way and muttering to himself as if he were running through something in his mind.
And while "American Girl" sounds like sunshine, beer and smiles, a closer listen reveals it's actually a song about disillusionment.
He walks past all of you to the bar, grabs his beer and smiles".
On the first night of the trip, while out partying, she spotted a tall, rugged-looking blond guy near the beer tent smiling at her.
Yana sipped on her beer and smiled bashfully once in a while as Alex and I made small talk.
A Muslim friend of mine agrees: "It's not surprising, really – there are lots of foreigners, Christians and a surprising amount of of nonobservant Muslims here," he tells me, before taking a sip of his beer and smiling.
