Open Topic: Failure on My Trip
This summer, when I went to Shanghai with my friends as sightseeing, we met a couple on the street. They talked to us in Engish and asked us to take their picture. We stood chatting for a while. They said they were college students and came from Qingdao. Then the woman said she had heard a tea festival was held over there, and she invited us to go there with them. It sounded fun for me and I just wanted to talk more, so I willingly accepted her invitation. At that time, I didn't notice that my friend refused to follow them and her behavior was proved to be correct.
I expected the tea festival would be a just tasting event and we could enjoy tea for nothing. However, they brought us to a small tea shop. A girl who seemed to be a shop clerk led us to so small a room at the back of the shop. I hadn't imagined we would be trapped inside a room, and at last I noticed that the "tea festival" meant completely different thing from what I had guessed. We were so puzzled but the clerk served one cup of tea after another. Actually, we could drink various kinds of Chinese tea and learn the history of Chinise tea. Yet, it was clear that we had to pay a lot for the tea celemony. So I couldn't enjoy it at all and sit still for a moment. All the time, I was trying to plan our escape from here. In the end, the tea festival finished. As I thought, we received a bill for each kind of tea tasting and room charge. The couple seemed to enjoy the tea festival and dissapeared to somewhere, leaving their e-mail address. After they left, my friend said "you're just unbelievable!"
I'm not sure whether they had evil intent or they just wanted to enjoy tea. But all I know is that I couldn't read the situation where my friend felt unconfortable and that I caused trouble to her. I'm sorry, my friend.....Through the experience, the lesson I learned is "DO NOT FOLLOW STRANGERS." I seem to have completely forgotten the lesson which my mother told me again and again in my childhood.........
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