TODAY WAS THE WORST AND MOST STRESSING DAY OF MY WHOOOLE TRIP!!!

I SCREAMED LIKE A CRAZY FOR MINUTES IN THE MIDDLE OF BEIJING STREETS

I HAD AN ACCIDENT WITH AN ELECTRIC MOTORBIKE

AAAAND aaall of this is nothin compared to all what happened!

I explain: My chinese visa expires on Saturday 19th. My passport was submitted to the Mongolian embassy in Beijing. The visa and passport were to be delivred Friday 18th between 4 and 5pm.

so the plan was to pick up the passport from mongolian embassy then take a night bus to Erlian (the check point town between China and Mongolia) and cross the border Saturday! The last bus to the border is at 5pm30.

So friday 3pm30, I took a taxi to the mongolian embassy. the taxi said he knows the place so everything was alright.

at 4pm30 he dropped me in an intersection saying that the embassy is near and i just have to walk to it. when I reached it at 4pm45, I found out that it was not the embassy but a trading federation between China and mongolia! at that moment, I felt about to faint. Not taking my passport from the embassy means that I will overstay in China till Monday at least. It was impossible to extend the chinese visa of course because it is weekend AND the passport is in the Mongolian embassy.

I started screaming, shouting all around in the middle of the street, stopping people, cars everything.

I went to a taxi driver to ask for help, but he totally ignored me!

Then stopped a guy on an electric motorbike. He accepted to help me. After 2km ride, some guy crossed our way and we feel down under the weigh of us and my huge unstable backpack. A woman came to us. Luckily she was English fluent. I explained her the situation she translated everything to my driver who was no longer willing to help me after the fall. Then, felt compassion from him and he said ok to continue. The woman indicated us the shortest way. But it was 5:05 pm… too late…

I started screaming again and the poor guy calming me and saying “ok ok! ok ok!”we reached the embassy at 5pm20. Everything was closed. I was really devastated. Then I saw a woman walking inside. I called her knocking on the glass window, presenting my receipt. She made a No sign with her head…

I insisted…

Maybe because of the face I was doing, she took her phone and made a call. Then, another guy showed up! The visa guy!!!!!!!!!

He was about to leave but thy called him back in the last moment

He signed some papers, stamped some. and gave me my passport!! That stupid green booklet!!

and I felt I could no longer stand up of happiness.

My driver deserved a looong hug. Took his phone number to thank him some day properly for all what he did.

At that time, the last bus to the border should have already left. I wasnt worried at all. After all my passport is with me now and I can find a way out.

But I decided to go to the bus station and just check again wether there is anorher way or bus or not.

When I arrived there, I found out that the last bus was still there!!! It seems that in China, for long distance. night buses, they leave usually later than sheduled hoping to get a one more passenger on board. So I catched it!I still can’t believe all what happened today…