nightmare

As a tour guide, I experienced my most horrible nightmare the other day in Shanghai, when it saw one of most windy and rainy day in this spring. After I guided 23 Croatian visitors to brave the rain, wind and crazy traffic crossing the road from our dinner restaurant at the bund to the parking lot, I noticed that our bus wasn't there at the small make-shift lot.

So I took out my phone trying to call the driver, only to find its battery had died off completely. Although the kind staff there offered me to use their phone, stupid me couldn't find the driver's number, which was saved on my phone. Realizing I wrote down it also on my program paper, stupid me, after searching every corner of my bag, failed to find my program too.

I felt so bad about myself, especially when watching, all my miserable group crowding to try to shelter from the falling rains and wind under a small corner of a bridge. I almost passed out because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't remember any number of my coworkers to turn to help.

Fortunately, about 5 minutes later, I was rescued by our smart driver, who phoned me about the changing the parking space but find my phone switched off. So he ventured to drive back to our original space to pick us up.

p.s. some info. about croatia:
bordering Italy, Hungary, it's a former yugoslavia country. Having only 4.5 million population, the small country has many beautiful beaches and islands as well as old towns, like dobravnik, a world heritage town.
capital:zegreb
time difference: 7 hours
greeting: dobra-u-tre, ( good morning); dobra,( good), i-de-mo ( let's go), ai-de-mo ( let's hurry up); i-de-mo-da-mo ( go that way); i-de-mo-o-wa-mo ( go this way).