To me, traveling is to meet other cultures and interact with different features rather than sitting on the bus and just watching the scenery through the window. In that meaning, the accidents that occurred in the Time Square was real "traveling."
It was the time when I went on the vision trip to the United States in May. After visiting few famous universities, my friends and I went on a New York tour. We watched a musical on Broadway, and walked through the streets. Free time was given for about thirty minutes in Time Square, so my friend Hyung and I moved together. We looked at the big screen, which displayed LG and Hyundai without Samsung. We also went to a few stores and bought some American products, such as Yankees hats for the game in Baltimore. We also saw one crazy man only wearing his underwear playing a guitar. Until then, Hyung and I thought that this street tour would end happily.
However, there was one silly episode and one dangerous situation on the way back. As we had no time, we decided to go back to the big Hershey's building, which was our destination. At that time, a Chinese performance was taking place. the word "Farun Dafu" was on the big plan cards. As I was curious about it, I asked a volunteer what it was about. Surprisingly, she could not speak English.
Suddenly, a pretty young Chinese lady came to me and asked, "Ni shi Zhongguoren ma?", which means "Are you Chinese?" in Chinese. I was frightened and just said "No..." But I recovered my patience and said "Wo shi Hanguoren.", which means "I am Korean." in Chinese. The silence existed longer than the previous one. The Chinese lady was surprised more than I was, but she also found her patience and said "Oh, you are from South Korea!" She explained about the protest kindly to me. The Chinese government depressed a particular religion and in some cases used inhumane methods, so the protesters were informing this to the world and asked the Western countries for help. This was the funniest episode in that trip.
As I almost arrived the Hershey's, there were two lack males standing and yelling. Beside them, there was a case with money. I tried to avoid them, but the tall males with clumsy clothes asked for a hand with their big hands like Michael Jordan and said "Ahn-nyung ha sae yo! yo!" They were both above 190 centimeters. One guy took charge of me and one guy was in charge of Hyung. The guy said "Yo, this is for charity! Please give one dollar!" I responded "As I am a student, I have no money." and gave them one dollar. The male with Hyung said to Hyung "If you ain't got one dollar, five dollar is OK! No? You ain't got Korean money? Chun-won up-seo-yo?" Hyung also gave them some money and escaped from them. I guess they live in the slums and were looking for some money for bars. At last, one guy said "Go-map sup ni da!" but the other guy claimed the guy who said Korean did not speak right. The guy who expressed thank in Korean said "What nigga? You know more than me about Korean?" We were nervous, so I said his Korean was right and rapidly escaped from there.
The NY tour had some funny stuffs but also some scary situations. I felt the real NY culture, diversity and complexity. I hope can go through the untraveled road like this experience, not just traveling the recommended course.
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