Three Beds

[Emily emailed me this and I posted it on her behalf since she can't access this blog from China. She can still access facebook.]

I arrived in China on Friday and I thankfully had one big firm bed in my room waiting for me. I got a call in Chinese that evening and the front desk explained that the phone call was to alert me that they needed to exchange my bed for a different one. Maybe my bed needed to be retired?

So, on Saturday morning a guy came in and added another bed to my room. He didn’t take the original bed away so, I thought to myself that it might be nice to have that extra bed after all. I can put my clothes on it when I can’t make up my mind and leave them there for as long as I like—no bed to floor to bed transferring necessary!

Today is Sunday and a guy came to my door with another bed. I showed him my 2 beds and pointed—I really couldn’t use another one. Well, he made a phone call and fortunately my 2 Chinese students showed up to meet me for lunch. They were my liaisons. The girls turned to me and explained that he was ordered to leave the one bed and take the two away. No three beds for me. We don’t know why these things happen, but now I have to use the chair for my clothes.