Day 11

Today I just relaxed…we’ve been to so many places in the last week and a half!! A day’s rest is so awesome right now!! All the students who are part of the PKU program have lunch together with their mentors today. I get to meet my professor tomorrow!! He has actually asked me to prepare something to discuss – like my interests in the research and my plans in Beijing. I heard he’s a nice guy though from one of the biology students at Tsinghua. So I’m EXTREMELY excited right now!!! W00t w00t!!

So I wanted to prepare for tomorrow’s meeting with my professor. He had given me like 4 articles to read. I wanted to print them somewhere, but I don’t know any printing places around here. So, I called up the front desk and this is what happened:

Front Desk Girl (FDG): Ni hao.
Me: “Ni hao. Hello. Ummm…hmmm..Do you speak English?
FDG: Uhh…oh…..ya.
Me: Oh okay. Great! I was wondering where I can print paper?
FDG: Print paper?
Me: Yeah, I want to print paper from my computer. Do you know where I can find a printer or if you have one?
FDG: Yes, you can only one.
Me: What? Wait. Only one page?
FDG: uhhh…only one.
Me (very confused): okayyy.. nevermind…thank you! Xie xie! I don’t need it anymore. Thank you! Bye.
FDG: bye.
2 minutes later – someone rings our doorbell. I see it’s someone working. So I think he’s going to come and ask me if I want to print one page of paper, which I don’t! I need to print like 50 pages! Haha… So I don’t let him in, because I already told the lady that I didn’t want one page.
I go back to my room and read my articles…..KNOCK KNOCK….what??! he’s upstairs now now knocking on my door……uggghhh..I just went to answer it to tell him I don’t need the one piece of paper….and I swing open the door to see this guy in a hotel uniform with a one roll of toilet paper in his hand! He hands it to me and walks to the elevator. I’m stunned lolool and I follow him and tell him I don’t need it and then he thinks I’m asking him “how much it is” and he starts smiling and turns red and says “no no no” and waves his arms at me…LOL….that made my day –

In conclusion, I don’t think the girl at the front desk spoke English…. =)