Once finished the Steemfest 2, I can finally sit down to write, and after all this experience, I would like to tell you about the impressions that I had in this place, the cultural shock that everything here implies for a Venezuelan and the experience that is to be able to meet so many people from so many countries, having to speak a language that you can defend with but still do not know very well and above all to know such a great and nice community.

Thanks

First of all I would like to thank @Aggroed and the Project @MinnowSupport again for giving me the opportunity to attend lisboa for the Steemfest 2. Helping me with the contest they made, where as a winner, gave me the necessary Money for the Passage of the plane, the stay of the hostel in which I stayed, and even for food and transport during the time I stayed in Lisbon.

I invite everyone to vote for the witness @Aggroed so that I can continue to help the small users who make life on this platform

https://steemit.com/~witnesses

I would also like to thank @Roelandp for giving me the Ticket to Steemfest2. When I knew I was going to lisbon, I wrote to see if he could help me with the entrance ticket with his Travel Reimbursement Fund program, where he would help the people who requested it according to the number of miles they would have traveled, and decided to help me by giving me an entry ticket completely!

I also invite you to vote for @Roelandp as Witness

https://steemit.com/~witnesses

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My impressions

Social difference between Venezuela and European countries.

I think the biggest difference, or the biggest shock I could get when I got here, was to see how everything worked, how people followed the rules and were respectful. I think there are 2 good examples that I could use to explain this:

The first is that when I arrived in Lisbon, I decided to go to my hostel in the Metro (Subway), I thought that unlike the Caracas metro, this would not always be full, and I could get on and off the train with my bags without any problem. When I entered, everything was as I expected, just one or another person on the subway ... but as the stops passed, it began to fill more and more, to the point that it looked like the Caracas metro at peak time.

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it would have been impossible for me to get out of that station with the suitcase I was carrying. But to my surprise, all the people who wanted to come in, were patiently waiting for the first person to come out first. In Venezuela it would have been a war between people to enter and leave the train.

The second example is how people respect traffic laws, here in Lisbon, when you want to cross the street in a pedestrian crossing where there is no traffic light, you just have to approach and all the cars will start to stop to let you pass. In Venezuela, you have to stop waiting for all the cars to pass, or let someone decide to allow you to cross, even though our laws also benefit the pedestrian in the same way.

The experience of meeting people from other countries

I think what I liked the most about being at the Steemfest was this, meeting people. In fact, as soon as I arrived at my hostel, I found that I shared a room .. WITH 3 BLOND GIRLS OF LONDON ... the bad thing was that I had barely arrived in Lisbon and I still did not have the confidence to start speaking in English, so I only present and I continued to get comfortable in the room. Shortly after, more people began to arrive, from China, Russia, Holland ...

What's more, just at the time I was writing this, a 66-year-old Japanese man and his son arrived at the hostel. And after talking with them for a while, they told me that before coming to Lisbon, they passed through Santiago de Compostela, other cities in Spain, and before that they had started with a city in France. The most surprising thing about the whole journey that was about 800 km, is that they did it walking! It's the first time I've heard something like this and it's definitely something I have to add to my list of things to do!

During the steemfest it was even better, attended by people from approximately 38 different countries. I was amazed, it was the most impressive thing I had done in my life, make friends from so many countries in one place, besides being able to practice my English and try to speak Portuguese. Without a doubt, it was the Steemians that made the steemfest so far, the best experience I've had in my entire life.

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the Steemfest

Beyond the great people I met (which I already explained in the previous section), here I want to talk about the festival, Lisbon and the spaces we occupy during the steemfest. I want to mention that @roelandp did an excellent job, each place was better than the previous one, and already the first place (for me) had already been rated 10/10 ... Excellent service, excellent views, very good talks and most importantly ... very good food.

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As I mentioned several times throughout this publication, steemfest has been the best experience in my life, and it would not have been possible without @minnowsupport @aggroed and @roelandp. I would like that even more Venezuelans (we were 2 this year) could have had the opportunity to attend, and I want to tell you that it is really worth the experience.

I hope to have the opportunity to attend again and to see them all again at the Steemfest3 !!

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