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Dink-a

I don't remember the exact reason for this trip, but a roommate (Ben? Sami? Can't remember what combination of people I was living with at the time...) and I spent a couple of nights in Beijing. Through some Americans who knew some Americans ('cause all us foreigners know each other, right?), we found cheap rooms in a university dorm. My roommate for the night was a student from Korea. She knew some English, spoken with a very strong accent. It took me a bit of conversation to realize that when I heard "A dink-a," I should substitute "I think."

For some reason, that keeps popping into my mind today.

I'm now thinking it was Ben who traveled with me to the dorm. I had won a night's stay at a luxury hotel in Beijing, so the roomies decided to spend the weekend there and prolonged our stay in town by staying in the dorm for the night. I think Sami was living in Beijing and Paisley was meeting up with us after traveling elsewhere. I remember Ben and I showing up at the luxury hotel and the desk clerk assuming we were husband and wife. We didn't want to correct him because we didn't want the impropriety of staying in a room alone together and not being married. But we also felt uncomfortable about the assumption. The awkwardness was relieved when Paisley finally showed up.

Or maybe that was a different trip all together.

Posted by Shokufeh at January 3, 2005 06:58 PM