Yeah, don't stress it. Everyone is in the same shoes, it'll all settle down and be a lot easier once classes start.
Don't do the single malt thing, I think Ken has seen too many episodes of Inspector Morse - you'll be sharing your pipe next.
I don't know if the comparison is valid - but at my halls the ground floor was all men for safety reasons, and then the floors above mixed. So the ground floor wasn't the source of social activity at all. It wasn't like everyone got along or even knew each others' names.
I think foreign male students have a tougher time because in that stressful first week I think other folk stick with the herd and what they know. Strangely the Swedish girls didn't seem to have the same problem...
But there's a whole weekend of live football matches coming up on a big screen not a million miles away from you.... grab a pint away you go...
Our halls also organized a football team for kick arounds in that first week, just going door knocking seeing if anyone was up for it.