Writing stories... by Angela Romero https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty Option 1: a cultural misunderstanding Option 2: a funny anecdote as a tourist. Include past simple and past perfect. en-us 2023-02-13 18:19:40 UTC 2025-12-08 12:48:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/270d.png A few years ago, when I was in China, a local friend invited me for dinner at a beautiful restaurant. I had heard that it was a very traditional place, so I was happy to go. At the restaurant, the waiter brought us bowls of rice to eat with our chopsticks. In a moment, I had to go to the bathroom, so I put my chopsticks into my rice and left. When I came from the bathroom, the restaurant was completely silent. Everyone was looking at me. My friend told me that the manager had asked us to leave because of what I had done. Later, I discovered that in China, putting your chopsticks into the rice is considered an offense. aromerogestora10 https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480063268 2023-02-13 18:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480063268 Andres Felipe Ortiz, Sebastián Gómez y Maria Alejandra Pabón https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480341651 A cultural misunderstanding might result in uncomfortable and embarrassing situations. For instance, on a trip to a foreign nation, I accidentally unintentionally made a gesture to greet a group of people that was impolite in their culture. Despite my best efforts, I offended someone with my behavior, which put me in a challenging circumstance.

I learned from the experience how crucial it is to be aware of cultural traditions and conventions before visiting a foreign country. I could have navigated social encounters and avoided any potential misunderstandings if I had taken the effort to study more about the traditions of the country I was visiting.



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My family and I take a family trip every year. This year we decided to go to Tokyo. The flight was very long and we arrived very tired. The agency we hired only gave us the names and how to go to the most touristic places and the hotel when we arrived. We asked for a taxi and we showed him the address but he did not understand, we were looking for a translator but according to him, that address did not exist but the hotel seemed similar to him, so when we arrived we got off and the taxi left we went to the reception and gave our names and there was no reservation with those names and the hotel was full, we had to ask for another taxi but it never arrived so the receptionist told us that our hotel did exist but it was three hours away but it was already too late so we saw that There was a much smaller hotel and when we entered it was horrible and the dirty rooms was a very bad experience!


]]> 2023-02-13 22:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480342326 Jennifer Camila Cáceres y Sara López https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480347782 sara:When my brother traveled to Turkey he was surprised because when he went to the bathroom, there was no bathroom! He had never seen anything like that, for people it was normal to have a hole in the floor and use it as a bathroom.

Jennifer:when i was little,i was in Colombia for taking a travel to panama my parents invited me it was a birthday gift then i had hears that panama was a very interesting place to visit so i was very happy to go.But when the day to travel arrives,my passport had stayed at home and the flight coming out soon so i couldnt travel

]]> 2023-02-13 22:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480347782 Juan Sánchez - Melissa Vásquez https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480349158 A few days ago I went with a friend to lunch, we had been told that a table was loose and could fall, but we were not told which one, for a moment my friend went and left her suitcase on the part of the table that was loose, I stayed reading since I was bored, a few days ago I had bought an interesting book that my girlfriend had recommended to me weeks before, when she returned, we stopped because we had to go to class and the umbrella of the table fell on us, the rest of the place was alone so no one could help us, only a few seconds later a girl saw what was happening and ran to the infirmary, when she came back we were getting up to go to class, fortunately it was nothing serious, but we had an amazing story to tell.]]> 2023-02-13 22:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480349158 Arwen Giraldo / Santiago Jose Penuela https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480349162 When i was 10 ten years old and with my family we went to France, and i expected to be wonderfull, but, it was stinky and people used to smell really bad, and there was a lot of rats, so we have decided to leave after we visited the Ifel Tower. It was dissapointing.  Also, the food was pretty well. ]]> 2023-02-13 22:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480349162 Luisa Valencia. Diego Pérez https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480349347 The last year when I was in Santa Marta with my family, Had decided to do tour by the port, we were pretty happy because it was my first time in a big boat. After a while , when we were near to the port the sea began to have a big waves. I was scared and I felt a pretty nervous because of the boat started to move a lot, so I thought that i gonna to die. However, this situation was terrifying but now its very funny.]]> 2023-02-13 22:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480349347 Santiago Vargas, Danier smith & Maria Fernanda Clavijo https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480351110 Some years ago, when I was in cancun with my parents and my brother, my parents had heard about the famous discotheque, one day of this holidays my parents found a  person that posing as a hotel worker in the beach, and he offered them some false tickets at a pretty nice price. So they buy both of them.

When my parents decide to go to the discotheque, i had remembered that a tour guide already say to us, about the danger of buying a ticket from anyone.

Indeed, when they went to enter the discotheque, the tickets turned out to be false.]]> 2023-02-13 22:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480351110 https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480352261 A few years ago, I was in Cancun for a family vacation, I had met a girl really pretty so I decided spoke with her. The first days were perfect, but I had told her that I was a Gringo, and I tried to speak in English. After one day she did tell me something that I really don't understand but a follow her. When we had arrived at the place she start to laugh because the place was a women's bathroom. 

Samuel Negoma and Camila]]> 2023-02-13 22:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480352261 Mariana Rodríguez Saavedra & Juan Pablo Malo https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480352326 Two years ago when i was in Kenia, my family invited me to a safari for two weeks. I had heard that they were wild animals, i was so exited. When we arrived to the place, the guide warned us that we should not disturb the tribes that were in the place. During the travel, i had to escape because I was scared for the reason  that I saw a hippo, so i left my things  in the jeep.


]]> 2023-02-13 22:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480352326 Danier, María Fernanda Clavijo y Santiago Vargas. https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480353554 When I went to Cali with my dad to buy some shoes, we went to a shopping mall and my dad went to get some money, I sat there and a boy came up to me, he asked me if I would clean my shoes because he saw them dirty and I said yes, because he only charged me three thousand pesos, when I finished he told me to pay him the thirteen thousand pesos, and I was scared because he was getting angry when I refused to pay all that money and in the end I had to give him the money, after a few minutes my dad showed up and I told him.]]> 2023-02-13 22:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480353554 Mariana Diaz, Ana Maria Hernandez, Juan Pablo P https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480357608 Once upon a time, in 2012 when ana maria was in spain with her family, they gone to a coffee shop, and her aunt says that "can you give me away a coffee please" immediately ana maria had noticed that her aunt make a mistake, but she forgotten, also the shopkeeper had been angry. Then ana maria excuse from her aunt because she had known that is a mistake.]]> 2023-02-13 23:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/aromerogestora10/hn8e7qsvzy55inty/wish/2480357608