Eric's Beijing Diary

Cute and Melissa went to Church with me today. I have known Cute and Melissa for some time, because they both used to work at the coffee bar. They are just two among the many, many young people from all over the countryside of China who are flocking to the cities to find work. So how do a modern day Laverne and Shirley get by in the big city? They go in together on a small room for about five hundred kuai--two fifty a piece. They ride bicycles and they live cheap. Definitely easier to do in the university district than over in the Chaoyang district.

After lunch I decided to take Cute and Melissa to KFC for a sundae, since they hadn't had the pleasure (although I think they must have had something similar at the coffee bar at some time or another). While we were eating our ice cream, Cute asked a question that really threw me. She said, "When you sleep, is your beard inside the blanket or outside the blanket? I was stumped. I said, "You know, there are some questions in life that I just haven't given much thought to."