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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Truman Overby Date: April 14, 2019, 9:36 am
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[quote author=Sofia link=topic=960.msg14404#msg14404
date=1555249886]
Hi Terecia, I am blond and have blue eyes. I look German or
Dutch.
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I thought that all Italians are brown haired with brown eyes. Or
at least 99.9% are.
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: NealC Date: April 14, 2019, 9:57 am
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I think there is more variability in the North of Italy.
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Terecia Date: April 15, 2019, 8:51 am
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[quote author=Keep America Great!
link=topic=960.msg14405#msg14405 date=1555252328]
What I'm about to relate isn't my most interesting travel
experience, but it is my most nauseating. A little background is
in order. I am NOT, in any way, shape or form, a Celine Dion
fan. In fact, if I had to choose between staring at a monkey's
butt or looking at Celine, the monkey wins hands down. Every
time. Not that she's ugly, it's her 'way' that grates on me.
The scene: Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2002, the Rio Hotel &
Casino. I took an instant dislike to Las Vegas from the moment I
stepped into the airport. As a non-gambler, the whole thing
repulsed me. The airport is lined with slot machines. I felt as
if a one-armed bandit {slot machine } was going to lift my
wallet, unawares, as I rushed to get out of there.
But that's not the worst part of the trip. Looking directly east
from my hotel room at the Rio, on the 12th floor, to the Strip,
is Caesar's Palace Casino. And there plastered on the side of
the building is a gigantic, multi-story poster of the most
famous Canadian in the world staring at me. There was no
escaping. Everywhere I walked there was the Prima Donna herself
casting her all-seeing gaze upon me. Can you imagine? The best I
could hope for was to hide away in my hotel room and hope those
penetrating eyes couldn't see through the curtains. She ruined
every sunrise.
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I try to imagine you're being haunted by her pointed nose.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I find it very
interesting, indeed.
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 15, 2019, 10:44 am
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My most interesting travel was my unlucky flight. They were
exhausting experiences. But it was a very good one for learners.
I wrote about it in the notebook section on italki three years
ago and got fans of my story.
This is a true story.
It was my first trip alone abroad, to Australia from Japan.
Entering another country made me feel very nervous. I practiced
silently in my head those oral conversations while I was in line
at the customs in Brisbane airport.
"May I see your passport, please? Here you are. What's the
purpose of your visit? It's sightseeing."
Ok, ok, I can do it. I can do it. oh...it's my turn.
I showed my passport to the immigration officer who has a thick
mustache and big arms.
Suddenly, the words that I never expected hit my head!
"It's not you."
He looked at my picture of my passport and said again, "IT'S NOT
YOU."
I said, "It's me, ME! This picture is 8 years old. I lost my
weight, my hair has grown and I'm wearing the contact lenses
now."
But he shook his head, "NO" and called another officer on the
phone. The woman in the blue jacket came and drew on me to
follow her.
To be continued...
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 15, 2019, 10:46 am
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"What's the purpose of your visit?" asked the officer in the
room where nobody would speak Japanese to help me. Her words
were 100% correct and the exact same as the one which I learned
the English class in Japan. But her English sounded stronger and
more scarcely than the one I listened to CD in the class. she
seemed to expect as if my answer was that my purpose of the
visit was smuggling.
I didn't want to lose this game. I don't know what kind of the
game but I just wanted to beat her.
But my English is too simple for fighting.
"I came here to see my daughter. She goes to Adelaide high
school. Call the school and check it out."
Because I didn't know other expressions.
"All right," she said like she was humming and asked me again,
"When is your daughter's birthday?"
I said," ten...no, eight ..no eighteen, nine, eight....November
fif...fifteenth." I was not good at numbers.
The officer said, "All right. I confirmed. Welcome to
Australia."
Then she smiled at me,
”Your daughter was born in 1989, not in 1898."
My daughter would been 119 years old now if my mention had been
correct.
To be continued....
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 15, 2019, 10:48 am
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After the tense immigration, I hurried to the domestic flight to
board on the other plane to fly to Adelaide.
It was a small airplane. The passengers are all big. No one had
black eyes like me.
I got nervous again.
The next moment, I became speechless.
She has existed in real.
- Barbie Doll -
Tall, blue eyes, blond hair, long arms, and legs.
The two beautiful Barbie flight attendants smiled at me, this
small woman with black thick hairs and thin eyes. I said
"Hello." as quiet as possible. I was tired after fighting
against the immigration officer.
Then I sat on my seat and thought, “Ok, now I don't have to
speak English until Adelaide. What a relief."
Suddenly, an old big woman with light blue eyes came to me and
said, "Excuse me, it's my seat, isn't it?"
I checked my ticket and hers. The same numbers were on them.
Double booked!
To be continued....
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 15, 2019, 10:50 am
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Truly, I sat on the seat before her. I was the first even it was
just 5 minutes earlier.
I could have beaten her, but I didn't. I didn't have enough
energy to fight after the first game in immigration. Besides,
how could I beat the old person? I have a heart.
I said to the lady, "I think it's a double booking. ok, you have
a seat and I'll ask them." and I looked at the beautiful flight
attendant at the front. I pulled myself together and talked to
her.
"Excuse me but..." I was thinking that there was no reason why I
have to express my excuse in this case, it's not my fault,
anyway, I continued, "but I think this is a double booking." and
I showed my ticket. The flight attendant said, "Is it?
something, something, something..." She seemed to explain
something maybe the why they booked double and so on. But I
couldn't catch her words at all. The reason didn't matter to me
as long as I could go to Adelaide safely. I needed my seat. It
would have been very hard to stand all the time to Adelaide
without a seat in the airplane even if they forced me to do it.
Finally, she beckoned me to sit on the seat. It was a first
front seat, if the airplane crashed, 100% I would die instantly.
The penalty seat...
Just on the limit of taking off, a man rushed in and sat on the
penalty seat next to me.
He smiled at me said, "Hi"
To be continued....
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 15, 2019, 10:54 am
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Just on the verge of taking off, a man rushed in and sat on next
to me and said, "Hi".
He was a detective Columbo! if my guessing was right. But he
wasn't wearing a trench coat of his trademark. In summer
Australia, people who want to die from dehydration can wear
coats. Columbo was wearing a white T-shirt and looked relaxed.
He seemed to be off from the investigation, or he might have
been retired. Either way, he looked very happy and said to me
with a strong Australian accent,
"*******back****Canberra****you?"
OMG! WHAAAAT?
Is this plane going to Canberra, not to Adelaide?
What's he talking about?
It was a moment that my level of tense hit a new record in my
life.
To be continued....
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 15, 2019, 10:55 am
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The guy looked like Detective Columbo from 70' TV. He didn't say
the famous words of his trademark, "Just one more thing."
Instead, he said, "Oh*****Singapore?"
I completely lost. Isn't this airplane flying to Adelaide? Then
I said the words which are the second entry in my survival
English dictionary. ( "Pardon me, please?" is the first entry.)
"Could you say that again slowly, please?"
He said, " Are you going to SEE YOUR GIRL?"
How could I hear his word, "Singapore" !?
It's a synergism. I can call it a multiplier effect of his
pronunciation and my listening.
The end.
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 15, 2019, 11:06 am
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Someone corrected those notebooks on italki. (I posted my
original ones that hadn't been corrected yet.)
He was a book editor. Surprisingly he was a friend of the author
of Detective Columbo. He's helped Ellery Queen Magazine for a
long time. We became friends. The journal of the funny
experience of traveling brought a great person to me at the end.
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