What would you do???

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Hello again my dear friends all over the world.

Most of you are part of AIESEC and you know how AIESEC works so this post is going to have a question at the end for all of you guys and for all the people reading this post.
Do you remember all the cultural simulations, study cases or questions that we ask at the interviews? The ones that starts with “what would you do if you were in a different country and ….” Well I have one case for you today.

You are in Krakow for 2 days and you are living with a Spanish AIESECer that is here with Erasmus. At 11 PM you are trying to get at his place by bus but you realize that you missed your station 3 stations ago. You are not sure about missing the station and you stay in the bus for 3 more stations. You get off the bus and call your Spanish friend but after 1 minute and one second you run out of credit and all you know is the name of the station you need to go to. You go to the nearest station and you have 7

buses going in the same direction but the last one of the day left 3 minutes ago and the next one is 95 minutes away. You don’t know what the direction of the bus station is and besides walking in a random direction and waiting there is no other solution for that. Every station has a system of maps that tells you where you are and how far is your destination from your location. What would you do in this situation???
AIESEC prepares us for this but you never expect it to happen to you, so my question for you guys is what would you do????

I will tell you how the story ended in the next post.

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Comments

[Adina]

Lost?! Muhahahaha
Krakow is as big as the city I'm living in now. Should I understand u might get lost in here too?Hahahahhah...>What about Istanbul which has over 16 million ppl? Muhahaahhaha...get a Polish map, a public phone card and a pillow to sleep on when u hit the bench (while waiting for your friend) Greets :P

[Iris [Calgary]]

haha, oh Danny, hope you're having fun over there!! I'd probably start asking everyone there if they speak English and then ask them for directions back. I'm pretty sure that's not how you did it though, so stop the suspense and I will be reading your next blog entry hopefully soon!!

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:P
taxi !

[pink mona]

anxiously waiting for the follow-up...
well........??? lazy bones, no word from you for a while, update your blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mona.

[Rral]

I'll tell you what I've done
Well, Danny, I've been thinking at the same think: that when you are in an AIESEC simulation, you never expect it to happen to you. I've got lost here, in Brazil, not knowing the language, the bus, the bus station, the direction, etc. At least I knew I had to go to Rui Barbosa street. A lady saw that I was lost, waiting in a random bus station a bus that would never pass that way, realized that I was a foreigner and did the best she could to help me. What could she do if I didn't know the language (you can hardly find people on the street knowing English)? Well, she let pass by her bus 3 times and, with big efforts understood what on Earth I was looking for. She only left after she made sure that I got up in a bus which took me close to my destination. Man, it was diffidcult!