Yeah, we were all fine–but very shaken up.
We were doing the semester overseas thing and traveling around during the spring break. We were observed by these guys when we were moving around the city. They followed us to our hostel and broke into our room and said we had to come with them. They claimed to have guns, though I never saw any. They did let us get our bags and then took us to some apartment in another part of the city. The apartment was full of empty beer bottles and these men had clearly been drinking.
Luckily, they didn’t separate us because we would have freaked. They basically left us alone in a locked room while they slept off their beer. I don’t think we were even guarded. We tried to pick the lock, but had no luck. There were four of us in all. 2 cried the whole night. Surprisingly, I didn’t. I and another girl spend the night breaking beer bottles so we could use them as weapons. Yeah right. Like we could take on 6 or 7 men twice our size armed with broken bottles.
The next morning they tried to get us to come with them somewhere else, but we just huddled together and refused to move. After about an hour, they kind of gave up and told us to get out. We ran out of there and caught the next boat out of there. We ended up in Paris where we called our parent. They FREAKED!
The story made the local news where our college was. The reporter didn’t even talk to any of us and got the story all wrong. I guess the reality was too boring and uneventful.
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