Lisbon

A couple of weeks ago me and my class went to Lisbon as a school-trip. It was very nice down there, with nice weather and a different culture which you had to get used to. One of the big culture changes was that there were a lot of scammers in the streets. Where ever we were going Portuguese people came up to us and offered umbrellas, sunglasses and selfie-sticks which was very weird. 

It was obviously a country that wanted to earn money on the tourists. When the clock had past noon, new scammers would come up to you one the street. All of a sudden Portuguese people offered you all kinds of drugs and they didn’t hide it at all. One day when me and the boys were eating at a restaurant in the middle of the street a guy came up to our table and dropped a black thing on our table that looked like those black magnets we played with when we were kids, and then he asked us if we wanted to buy some “hashish” we said no and hoped he would leave us alone. But he was not done! Then he offered us cocaine, ecstasy and heroin. He obviously did not care for getting caught? And the police were everywhere and also, I am pretty sure that everything he has to offer was fake. Sure, I wasn’t stupid enough to get scammed by those drug dealers but on the first day me and the boys got scammed. We were in a market called timeout-market which had a lot of different kinds of food and me and the boys wanted to smoke a cigarette outside. We went outside and a minute after an African guy walked up to us and introduced himself, he told us he was from Senegal. When he found out we were from Denmark he starts talking about FC Copenhagen which has a Senegal player on their team which I was aware of, so we talked about football for a couple of minutes. Then he told us that it was Mother’s Day in Senegal and put some bracelets on us and told us it was free. Then we talked some more and put another one on us and after that he looked at me and said, “now you give me some” and I thought that was alright cause he had been so nice, so I handed him 10 euro and thought I paid for everybody. But then he walked over to the others and asked for more money. And because we’re Danish and nice people they all gave him 10 euros. So, he earned 40 euros that easy. Right there we learned a lesson about all the scammers in Lisbon. That was only the beginning of all the scammers we would meet on the trip. Even though you get used to people coming up to you it keeps being annoying because they don’t take no for an answer and some of them would follow you a 100-200meters before leaving you alone. It was a different experience but it was kind of fun and overall the trip was amazing