I am just so shaken right now my face is twitching and I'm panicking. I can't stop my face from twitching.

I was sitting at the bus stop with a friend waiting for her bus to come so she could head home and this german woman comes up to me and starts speaking english. She starts asking me questions "are an american? are you in the army? what are you doing here? " in a pretty condescending manner. Then she starts getting aggravated and asking me more questions "Why are you studying here? Do you think you are alone [as in america is the only country that matters?]? What do you want to study for?"

Then the girl I'm with politely says "We're students at the university" and then woman just taps her with her umbrella "and says I'm not speaking to you! respect me! I'm speaking with him"

and by this point people are gathering around

I don't know what she wanted me to say. She obviously wanted me to admit that everythings our fault or something. She clearly had something against us and she didn't even know us.

I handled the situation as best as I could and asnwered her politely. I didn't want to cause a secene or make it worse than it really was. She just kept making it akward and she wanted to take it out on us.

then when she just didn't get the satisfaction of making me look bad, she started to walk away. And I said yes thank you, it was nice meeting you, just trying to be polite. Then she says "and what is your name?" I told her my name and then she told me hers and then she left. I was just shocked.

The people around me started saying things like "dont' worry about it, she's just crazy." And then I could tell, I was just a poor american in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I played it off rather cooly and sat there until the bus come to pick up my friend, but the whole time I was ready to cry inside. My face was twitching because I was trying to keep a smile even though it hurt.

Now i'm in my room crying my eyes out, because this just did not helps things and the problems I'm already having. My face won't stop twitching and I'm having a panic attack. I know this feeling and I just don't know wha tto do right now.