Cuban tells what happened to her when she got on her first bus in Spain

Sairis Castillo, a young Cuban resident in Gran Canarias, Spain, recounted on her social networks what the experience was like of getting on her first bus after she had her transportation card.An experience that he described as a disaster and not because of the service, but because of his total inexperience with development and technology.

"Gentlemen, this was my painful experience a few months ago when I finally managed to get my bus card here in Gran Canarias and I went to take the bus for the first time.When you come from Cuba, a country where development is zero, to a country where everything is automated and technology is highly updated, the embarrassment does not end. You are surprised all the time"wrote the young woman on Instagram along with a funny video in which she showed what her first time using her transportation card was like.

Not knowing which bus she had to take, the young woman chose to ask the driver directly where the bus was going. What happened is that when she got on the bus because of her nerves, she forgot to pay and was asked by the driver about payment.

"This was a disaster. Oh my lord!", said the young woman once she was comfortably seated, without having to have queued to get on, without anyone standing in the vehicle and "without a horn" bothering the passengers.

"There goes my bus, I survived. It was the first time I used 'my card' and I didn't know where to put it", the young woman said when she got off about the pain she went through for not knowing what to do, to the point that she says she ended up saying to the driver: "Friend, this is the first time I take the bus, where do I have to put the card please."

The publication was commented on by dozens of people who identified in that or other everyday areas with what it means to land in development and be a newbie to so many things.

Nevertheless,The use of the word "companion" by the young woman made Alexander Otaola himself feel bad, who did not hesitate to question Sairis's use of the term to refer to the bus driver.

"Why do you say that? All of Cuba uses the same term and therefore it cannot be concluded that we are communists. The problem is that everything is politicized, a word determines absolutely nothing. Now, do they also tell you how to speak? We are already falling to the extremes," answered the young woman after initially reaffirming the use of the term to Otaola.

"I will continue using the term until I get out of the habit, from there to there it is not my business, rather it is up to the heads of those who draw their absurd conclusions. Greetings to both of you and Merry Christmas," the young woman replied to both Otaola and another Internet user who attacked her for using the term.

Sairis also received the support and solidarity of other people, some of them Spaniards, who played down the issue and noted that in Spain the term companion is used, especially in the workplace to refer to work colleagues.

In recent months, Sairis has documented on several occasions what his first experiences in the Iberian nation have been like, always underlining the novelty and happiness of having landed in a completely different life.

This is a feeling that is now multiplying among thousands of other Cubans who in the last two years left the island in search of a better life.