I was getting ready to head to Paris for 10 days and I received some mail....it was my first packages!!!! You see, here when you receive a package, they keep them at the Post Office for you to pick them up...they don't deliver them...I thought well, I will just leave early and go to the Post Office before I go to the airport. We get to the post office and I ask for my packages, of course not in words, but by just handing them the slips I had.....they proceed to walk motioning for me to follow....so I go...all the way through the entire Post Office....we finally reach where they store the packages and they tell me "Tutup" which means closed....With the biggest smile I could give I said "PLEASE"....so they made some calls, we walked even more through the huge building and arrive where they sort the mail....there were many people there working and suddenly they were all saying "Bule" which means foreigner and all of the men were getting up and rushing over to me to give me a chair to sit....it was soooo nice and funny.....After a lot of acting out, body language, I convinced them to call the one peson who had the key...he came opened the cabinet and I had my first packages.....
It was quite an experience considering that you would never go into the Post Office like that in the US or many western countries for that matter.....it was just funny because they soooo want to please you and help you....it just shows you what they are willing to do for each other.....
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