YOUR FIRST MOMENTS ABROAD - Page 5

Brystall · (#41 (**permalink**))

Mrembo wenu, that was really funny. Anyway, I felt really stupid on this day when I was in the cafeteria seated with some friend of mine, then she goes like would you like some cappuccino? and I'm like no thanks I'll have something else. Anyway we ended up meeting in the same place. I knew it was coffee........ didn't know its other name was cappuccino so we just looked at each other then she smiled and I smiled back at her those ones of........I knew what you meant, yeah right.

ange noir · (#42 (**permalink**))

houdy_ny1 i feel u on that one about the metro!! here there's a free bus that goes around town!! and i could not 4 one understand this dere...kwani..the bus is even free and he's feeling hot????........then i discovered the "special" busstops!!

at least i was at a busstop, one of my kenyan buddies, was at mataa! and u jua that kenyan b'haviour, shukisha/kupanda kwa mataa......the dere tho't he was going nuts or something banging the mlango huko kwa "mataa"!! i heard that saga and amuad...mine was a minor incident!!hahahah

cheers!

kivilo · (#43 (**permalink**))

i tavelled half a year in the subway before i realized...Damn you have to pay and its responsibility of each to pay himself...imagine expecting this of a kenyan!!!Ill never forgive vic for this lie.It saved me chumas though!

robyn · (#44 (**permalink**))

well here's my story. I had just opened a bank account (my first ever)and I was feeling really cool with the card. The first thing I did was put the card in the slot and it was actually the wrong way so I struggled for a few minutes before I noticed how the card should be inserted. I had a check which I wanted to deposit. When I fikad at the ATM first of all it was in french but my french is not that bad (or so I think). So I entered my PIN and once I got through I decided it was time to deposit the envelope. I forced it through the kaspace but it kataad kuingia so I concluded that the ATM was not working. I removed my card and told the guy behind me in my halting french that the thing is out of order.
The guy just shook his head and he must have thought I had gone loco.
Well he proceeded to use the ATM and i decided to hang around and see what's up. He also had a check to deposit. I observed what he did and that when I understood my failure.....I was out in a second before he turned his back. Hell these first moments can be very embarrasing!

luscious · (#45 (**permalink**))

ha, true this first encounters with a foreign place can be soooooooooo embarassing.

my first time to shop with my ATM card was crazy, at least i knew you had to slide it but when it came to entering the PIN no. i didn't know you had to use the special touch pad pen there, so there i was infuriated as ever wondering why my fingers weren't doing the job as i recklessly jabbed at the numbers. Maskini, nobody told me not even the damn cashier, she just looked at me in awe and finally someone who was getting pretty angry by the hold up of the line showed me what to do...winch!!!

sooooooooooo embarassing!!!:P

TINMAN · (#46 (**permalink**))

Mine was mbaya..real loco case !

I've just fikad Ohare in Chicago and I was kazwad for a long call jo(kwenda kwa shooo), being in that Immigration Line after leaving the plane, we stood there for like 2 hours...mob guys...
So after being given the go ahead I ran straight to the bathroom- I finished my thing and now I'm feeling mzuri and it's time to get up ....maze there is no flush kwani iko nini...( It comes Automatic when you open the door to exit)
maze I was in the bathroom for like half an hour
By the way that was my first time to see a super clean public toilet !

Poleni kwa kuwahaibisha !!!

Husna · (#47 (**permalink**))

I get you mummies-boy,I could not eat anything as I did not know what "lamb chop " was so all I did was drink whatever drink was being passed on as I ogopad kulaing a nyoka.NOMA started when my bladder could hold it no more and I was freaked like a mother ######to go to the little nuns room in the plane,coz I was told when I was small ,when people on the plane let go, it lands on peoples heads, so I fungiad.GUESS who was the first off the plane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:7 :D :7

Husna · (#48 (**permalink**))

.....AFTER A POST CAME A RESPONSE AFTER A RESPONSE AN EVIL TWIN WAS UNLEASHED NEXT CAME.......}>

stupak · (#49 (**permalink**))

:7 :7 really funny. Mine was on my 2nd day in a macds, I did not have enough money so I argued that I will only have a medium sized fry. So I got on the line and ordered chips....that babe looked at me and said that they do not sell chips but I could buy them in the gas station next door. So I stand there, holding up the line, wondering why she is not selling the chips to me yet I can see them across the counter.....I ended up pointing to her what it was I wanted after a very embarassing encounter.

Twangalife · (#50 (**permalink**))

Well indeed I did experience what some of the buddies have said. Equaly on the other said of the coin,nilipiwa na mshangao mdeadly when I learned that some of the America are so much ignorant of world Geography.Maze get this American who looks quite learned, and he asks Hey men how did you come over to the U.S? Did you come by train or by bus?Do you have planes in your country? Before you even figure out what answer to give, he is there again"did you say you come from Kenya? is Kenya in South Africa? For those who have experienced such drama what you say? To me Ukimwerefunza mchinga utaingia mashakani. Hama vipi?