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I am so bored. I hate this conference. Most of the papers have English titles and English content, but for some reason the presenters all have decided to present in French.
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Ripped off by the waiter

K.thambi
2006-01-06 15:40:34

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I am so bored. I hate this conference. Most of the papers have English titles and English content, but for some reason the presenters all have decided to present in French.

The result is that I can't understand most of the sessions. I can thankfully at least read their slides fairly well, but its hard listening to sessions where you understand every 15th word.

So in the afternoon, I went on strike and headed to the pool. It was quite disgusting because many of the tourists were fat old french ladies who had no qualms about sunbathing topless. Blurk!! Thus, I wandered down the beach and watched tourists go paragliding and kids
riding camels and horses up and down the beach.

After 30 minutes of that, I was really bored, so I decided to be a real rebel and sneak away from the conference all together. So I headed out to the Medina (town centre) of Sousse (the city the conference was in).

It took less than 5 seconds from the time I jumped out of my taxi to be approached my a friendly Tunisian guy. It turned out to be a waiter from my hotel - or told me (I couldn't remember him). He said it was his day off and that he liked wandering through the Medina. After a bit of superficial chatting, he suddenly asked me if I was
interested in buying a leather jacket, because apparently today was the day that the president of Tunisia was visiting England, and thus all English people would receive a 30% discount on leather purchases (he thought I was English). I kind of shrugged and said no, but he
took it as a yes and said he would show me the shop, but couldn't stay to help me because he had to meet a friend.

Before I knew what had happened, I found myself being rushed through the medina through twisting corridors. My paranoid mind though that he was trying to get me lost and would then suddenly turn on me and demand money to lead me out of the ...