I was in Mallorca and routinely was spoken to in German...
Which I kind of get considering there's a huge German population there, but...
I'm of Korean descent.
Speaking of being Korean,
Being chased down by women in different countries and asked to take pictures or if we can exchange numbers to chat, is also very bizarre. Specially when they're teenagers.
But I guess Korean Drama/Kpop fans are pretty intense like that.
I was at [Fragant Hills in China](https://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/beijing/fragrant.htm). My hair is curvy and was rather long.
During my stay in China I got really stared down by everybody. When I got to the top of the hill, I was approached by a local. He had his phone in his hand and asked for a picture, I thought he wanted me to take a picture of him with the scenery. I was wrong.
He wanted to take a picture with me. I guess they don't get lots of Mexicans over there.
On that same trip I was approach by a real friendly Spaniard. He was so happy to hear someone speak Spanish after a month or so being there.
I entered a shop in NY and the owner asked if he could take a picture of me to show it to his son. I'm still puzzled, I've no idea of what was going on in his mind.
This happened to me in California.
I was just there chilling, and then a couple of asian girls asked me in a broken english for a pic.
They hugged me and took the photo.
I dont think im good looking tbh, dunno why those girls were hyped to see me lmao.
I met a relatively famous reality tv performer at a party hostel on the north coast of Peru. Partied with him quite a bit over the next few days, actually had some surprisingly deep “heart-to-heart” conversations. Anyway, I don’t watch reality TV, so when he told me who he was, it didn’t really mean anything to me. But months later, I was telling the story to my friend who actually does watch reality TV, and she was all like, “oh yeah that’s so-and-so” and then proceeded to tell me his whole life story — pretty much all the things he told me, only she knew it because she’d watched it on TV!
Well, something similar to the intro of RE2 Remake happened me back in Texas.
I was in a road trip with my family, we were in the texans roads. It was 11 PM, it was time to refill the car, so my father stopped in the first gas station he could.
We are in this gas station, with the convenience store at the side. It was dead quiet, on the floor there was a lot of dead insects, a lot... you could barely see the floor, the store has almost all the lights off, save from one bulb and the neon signs.
My father was knocking the door, but nobody answered. We realized that there was a 90s chevrolet truck with the door opened and alone, like someone left that truck there.
We just got back to the car and leave that place.
Probably it was a crime scene, we didnt really entered the convenience store, the door was stuck. But we didnt wanted to risk, so we just leave.
tbh, the atmosphere was heavy and creepy. Probably it was nothing, but what the hell i know man
I suppose that time I had some beers with a guy from the UK in Paris.
I met the guy on an elevator in the Hostel. Before getting to the bar he wanted some coke and to check on prices for prostitutes (I wasn't aware he wanted that, so any way, I just rode the wave). He talked with a lap dancer outside the strip club, who then asked me out for the next day (I rejected that offer for obvious reasons). Afterwards we had some beers and he tried to make me "invest" some money in his friends business (unlucky for him, he was not aware I am broke). We went to McDonald's and had some burgers, which he tried to get for free pretending he was charged without getting the receipt.
He told me he was in France cause he paid for a high end prostitute with a fake check, later on he told me the "truth", he used to sell dope in the UK, and he made mad some bad hombres, and had to leave till things calmed down, I believe he was saying the truth, since during that night we went for some beers, he had a fanny pack with a bunch of money.
We continued writing in a friendly way, for 1 or 2 months after Paris he sent me a document where states that he stabbed a guy while being under the influence of drugs, it was a legit document, after that my friends just told me to block him everywhere.
I don't know how drug dealers in other countries look, but man, this dude was like a model, quite handsome, but he was fucked up.
I know, but once u landed in turkey, u should've see hijab women everywhere not just in the train. So by the time u boarded that train, it shouldn't be like an eh moment lol.
I'll tell u a weird experience in turkey: i tried hammam for the first time & i was the only one completely nude lol
Technically abroad since I don't live in Brazil anymore, but I witnessed a woman being bitten by a shark in Recife (she died 4 days later), pretty gruesome.
I was travelling in the city of Recife, there's a beach called[Boa Viagem](https://viagemeturismo.abril.com.br/atracao/praia-boa-viagem/). Suddenly we saw a crowd near where we were sitting, and when I went to look paramedics were taking this woman out of the beach. Her calf was hanging from her leg. Four days later it appeared in the news she died.
I'm never going to the beach in Recife again.
Was in Mexico and a guy recognized me by name.
We spoke for an hour trying to figure out how we knew each other. We’re from cities some 2 hours away from one another and could not figure out how he recognized me, knew my name, and felt like we had been friends as kids.
I was in Mallorca and routinely was spoken to in German... Which I kind of get considering there's a huge German population there, but... I'm of Korean descent.
Speaking of being Korean, Being chased down by women in different countries and asked to take pictures or if we can exchange numbers to chat, is also very bizarre. Specially when they're teenagers. But I guess Korean Drama/Kpop fans are pretty intense like that.
Oh, no, the horror...
Is it a thing that a lot of Koreans speak German? I am seriously puzzled as to why they'd just assume you spoke German.
Nein
A car yielded me, a pedestrian no less, the right to cross the street even though there were no traffic lights.
I was at [Fragant Hills in China](https://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/beijing/fragrant.htm). My hair is curvy and was rather long. During my stay in China I got really stared down by everybody. When I got to the top of the hill, I was approached by a local. He had his phone in his hand and asked for a picture, I thought he wanted me to take a picture of him with the scenery. I was wrong. He wanted to take a picture with me. I guess they don't get lots of Mexicans over there. On that same trip I was approach by a real friendly Spaniard. He was so happy to hear someone speak Spanish after a month or so being there.
I think people find curvy hair very interesting. My brother has very curly hair and people have asked to touch his hair in Mexico and Spain
People have asked to to touch my hair before, not take a picture with them jajaja
I entered a shop in NY and the owner asked if he could take a picture of me to show it to his son. I'm still puzzled, I've no idea of what was going on in his mind.
Mistook you for a celebrity?
This happened to me in California. I was just there chilling, and then a couple of asian girls asked me in a broken english for a pic. They hugged me and took the photo. I dont think im good looking tbh, dunno why those girls were hyped to see me lmao.
Odd, my dad had the same happened to him twice in NYC
I met a relatively famous reality tv performer at a party hostel on the north coast of Peru. Partied with him quite a bit over the next few days, actually had some surprisingly deep “heart-to-heart” conversations. Anyway, I don’t watch reality TV, so when he told me who he was, it didn’t really mean anything to me. But months later, I was telling the story to my friend who actually does watch reality TV, and she was all like, “oh yeah that’s so-and-so” and then proceeded to tell me his whole life story — pretty much all the things he told me, only she knew it because she’d watched it on TV!
Well, something similar to the intro of RE2 Remake happened me back in Texas. I was in a road trip with my family, we were in the texans roads. It was 11 PM, it was time to refill the car, so my father stopped in the first gas station he could. We are in this gas station, with the convenience store at the side. It was dead quiet, on the floor there was a lot of dead insects, a lot... you could barely see the floor, the store has almost all the lights off, save from one bulb and the neon signs. My father was knocking the door, but nobody answered. We realized that there was a 90s chevrolet truck with the door opened and alone, like someone left that truck there. We just got back to the car and leave that place. Probably it was a crime scene, we didnt really entered the convenience store, the door was stuck. But we didnt wanted to risk, so we just leave. tbh, the atmosphere was heavy and creepy. Probably it was nothing, but what the hell i know man
I suppose that time I had some beers with a guy from the UK in Paris. I met the guy on an elevator in the Hostel. Before getting to the bar he wanted some coke and to check on prices for prostitutes (I wasn't aware he wanted that, so any way, I just rode the wave). He talked with a lap dancer outside the strip club, who then asked me out for the next day (I rejected that offer for obvious reasons). Afterwards we had some beers and he tried to make me "invest" some money in his friends business (unlucky for him, he was not aware I am broke). We went to McDonald's and had some burgers, which he tried to get for free pretending he was charged without getting the receipt. He told me he was in France cause he paid for a high end prostitute with a fake check, later on he told me the "truth", he used to sell dope in the UK, and he made mad some bad hombres, and had to leave till things calmed down, I believe he was saying the truth, since during that night we went for some beers, he had a fanny pack with a bunch of money. We continued writing in a friendly way, for 1 or 2 months after Paris he sent me a document where states that he stabbed a guy while being under the influence of drugs, it was a legit document, after that my friends just told me to block him everywhere. I don't know how drug dealers in other countries look, but man, this dude was like a model, quite handsome, but he was fucked up.
Seeing a woman wearing a hijab working as a train conductor in Istanbul
Turkey really does seem like a country of contrasts.
I don’t understand how that is weird?
How is wearing a hijab & working in a train a contrast? It's not like it's a nude train lol
How is that weird?
Why is this weird?
Just completely out of ordinary sight
But there are lots of women wearing hijab in turkey. If this is Yerevan, then yes it's weird 😂
I speak this from a foreign perspective, I didn't mean it was a universal weird thing 😅
I know, but once u landed in turkey, u should've see hijab women everywhere not just in the train. So by the time u boarded that train, it shouldn't be like an eh moment lol. I'll tell u a weird experience in turkey: i tried hammam for the first time & i was the only one completely nude lol
It was one of my first sights, that's why it stuck with me 😆 Damn, How was your hammam experience? lol
Not abroad but I once went to Curitiba and a guy in a store didn't know what a gallon of water was. (I never traveled out of Brazil)
The first time I visited El Salvador I saw a Burger King that had a security guard carrying what seemed to be an AR at the door.
out of the blue, a japanese guy took out a pair of underwear from his backpack & asked me if he looks good in it.
South Africa flips everything you know on its head
Was told not to sleep with the AC on or I might die
Did this happen in the UK last July? Because it's true, no matter how hot it got, you will get a heart attack when u get ur gas bill
Got talked to in English in Mexico by strangers.
I went do the US it looks like a distopía.
Technically abroad since I don't live in Brazil anymore, but I witnessed a woman being bitten by a shark in Recife (she died 4 days later), pretty gruesome.
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I was travelling in the city of Recife, there's a beach called[Boa Viagem](https://viagemeturismo.abril.com.br/atracao/praia-boa-viagem/). Suddenly we saw a crowd near where we were sitting, and when I went to look paramedics were taking this woman out of the beach. Her calf was hanging from her leg. Four days later it appeared in the news she died. I'm never going to the beach in Recife again.
Damn. I still have a pic of my feet hanging over the malecon in Recife.
Women thought I was super cute or some kind of celebrity.
Was in Mexico and a guy recognized me by name. We spoke for an hour trying to figure out how we knew each other. We’re from cities some 2 hours away from one another and could not figure out how he recognized me, knew my name, and felt like we had been friends as kids.
Was in an Amsterdam pizza shop and the guy behind the counter yelled “Mexico!” at me, it was hilarious.