Europe Business Travel
In 2015, I went to Germany on a business trip with a few colleagues.
We went through customs in Frankfurt. Two colleagues lined up oneafter the other. When the first one was passing through customs, the customsasked him, "the man behind you, are you together?” "No." When the next one passedthrough customs, the customs also asked him, “the man before you, are youtogether?" "Yes".
So they were stopped by customs for a long time in a dark room.
In the Q&A part, let me tell you why they gave different answer.
We left customs to take next flight. Destination is Hanover. But we didn’tknow the right way. I asked an airport worker, a very tall lady. I asked her,"Which way to Hanover? "Where do you say? "Hanover""Where" I showed her the ticket. "Oh, Hannover!"
Finally, we've reached the destination.
I went shopping alone. When I just left the subway station indowntown, a young man came to me. It’s a Chinese. He is handsome, dressedcleanly, and sunny. He asked me, "Are you Chinese?" "Yes".
I felt he was very excited. He began to talk to me in Chinese.
"My brother, I'm a student in Germany and I'm studying in another city.
I'm here to travel, but I've lost my wallet. Can you lend me 15 euros to buy a
train ticket? "
If it was in China, I would never give him money. But this is
Germany, and he looked so sunny, I don't believe he's a liar, and I gladly gave
him 20 euros. He asked my contact info, but I refused. I felt happy, it’s fun
to help.
Well, it's evening. I'm going back to the hotel. I checked the map,
and it was just a few kilometres, and I chose to walk back.
It was already dark. But strangely, the sidewalks, there are no
streetlights. When I came to a corner and suddenly I saw white teeth. Note,
there's only teeth. I'm scared. Then I approached slowly, and looked closely, it
was a black man, with white teeth open. He sat there and looked at me.
Oh, my God. What would you do at this time? Come on, run. I run back
to the hotel. I never wanted to walk outside alone.
The next day, I went out with my colleagues. We took the subway to
downtown. At this moment, I saw the Chinese boy yesterday I met. I recognized
him at a glance. But he didn't recognize me. He walked up to us. "Are you
Chinese?" "My colleague replied, "Yes." “My brother, I'm a
student in Germany and I'm studying in another city. I'm here to travel, but
I've lost my wallet. Can you lend me 15 euros to buy a train ticket? "
I felt very angry. I shouted to him.“Get out of here.”
My colleagues looked at me as if they were looking at aliens. I
didn't explain to them either. I felt so humiliated because I wasfooled by such a simple scam.
This is the CBD, and there is a shop 20 meters off the CBD subway
station. It's called "Bar&Dance". From the outside, it's a normal
bar. We went into the shop for a rest.
One of the waiters show us the menu and we asked something to drink,
which was not expensive. After a while, a woman came and asked if we'd like to
watch the dance? We answered, yes.
The woman, who was tall and big and ugly, was supposed to be black,
and she danced there by herself. And we're discussing where to go.
After five minutes, she stopped. Then the waiter came over with thebill. Drinks are only a few dozen euro, but the dancing charges 500 euros. 500euros is more than 4,000 yuan. We doubted that at first they didn’t tell us howmuch it cost to watch dancing. At this moment, the woman approached, and sheblocked our exit. You can’t leave without the money.
Now we noticed that there were no other guests at such a large bar.
Unexpectedly, in the city's CBD, there was such a black shop. And outside the shop,
there were lots tourists and police.
Well, here's a business trip story I'm going to tell. There's no bigPrinciples. I just tell you that there are many cultural differences between
the West and China, and there are also many unsafe factors. Therefore, if you
travel overseas, you must be prepared and ensure safety.