My Story

Last year I went to France to a little village called Montpellier, I studied there for about four months. Many things happened during my journey, but I would like to talk just about an specific trip I did with some of my friends. We had two weeks of vacation and many of my friends wanted to stay in Montpellier and get to know every "interesting" place in there, but I disagreed because it is a very small place and we could explore it like in three days. 

So my best friend and I organized a trip in which we travelled throughout many cites such as London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Frankfurt (not a very interesting place but our bus back to Montpellier departed from there); we talked with all the students and many of them thought it was a great plan, specially because it was really cheap. So we went to London, the must beautiful city I have every seen, but also the must expensive one. From there we travelled to Amsterdam, were many crazy things I wouldn't like to talk about happened; after that we went to Berlin, a city full of great history and many interesting places to visit. Finally we went to Prague, the city of the prettiest women, it is amazing the number of hot ladies living in there, I think they should export some of them to Mexico. 

From Prague we took a bus to Frankfurt were we would get back to our home. It was like 4:00 a.m. when we arrived to the border of Czech Republic to enter Germany, suddenly, one German policeman got on the bus and started asking for our passports, I was asleep so I didn't even notice when he arrived. One of my friends woke me up because the policeman saw the passport of one of my friends and got him down of the bus, and he did the same thing with the whole group. We really didn't understand why he was doing that because he couldn't even speak english, one of my friends that had just seen the movie "HOSTEL" even started shouting that maybe they wanted to kidnap us and torture us; until an officer who knew to speak english arrived and he explained everything to us: we had a French-Student Visa, so we were not supposed to get out of France. I couldn't believe it, we had been traveling thorough all the European Union and anybody told us anything until then.

They took us to the police station and kept us there in a little room for about four hours, one friend was really scared and even started crying because they told us they had to deport us back to Mexico, I must admit that I was very scared too. I called one of the policeman and asked him if there was no other solution and he told me that we could buy a one-day German visa just to get out of the country, but it could cost us €200 per person. My friends instantly agreed, but I only had €20 in my pocket, so I tried to convince the policeman to let me go for free, but he didn't agreed. I was shocked of how Germans are, like "THE LAW IS THE LAW" and you can´t change their mind, I'm not saying that is wrong, but here in Mexico it would had been easy to give €50 to the policeman and he would let us get back in the bus, but their culture is outstanding. I asked a friend to lend me some money and they freed us. We went to Frankfurt to take our bus back home, I was really upset and angry because I felt those Germans had robbed me, until in the bus station I ate the must delicious hot dog I have ever tried. It may sound stupid, but that hot dog remind me that even though shit happens, you have to look for the bright side of the story. 

I consider that journey as the best trip I have ever done and I had a great time with my friends and I would never change that trip for anything, although when I got back to Mexico I had to work four months in the movies in order to pay my father those €200. We returned to Montpellier and I couldn't help making fun of my friends and how we were really scared, how they started screaming because they thought they wanted to kidnap us or that they began crying because we would get deported.