The helpful passenger stood next to me and made sure I got off safely at Muxidi. The others probably breathed a collective sigh of relief. The subway train came and I got off at Babaoshan, my mission completed. I had done it.
好心人站在我旁邊，以確定我安全再木樨地下車。周圍的人好像松了口氣。地鐵來了，并再八寶山下車，我的任務完成。我做好了。
Getting back that afternoon was a different matter. I left CRI confidently, took the subway to Muxidi, but couldn’t remember which exit to use. Taking a chance, I looked for the bus. When it arrived, I asked the conductor in the one Chinese word I had been told would get me out of trouble — ‘Yoyibinguan’, which means Friendship Hotel.
The conductor beckoned me aboard, but ten minutes into the journey, I had a feeling I was going the wrong way. The skyline wasn’t slightly familiar. At each stop, a recorded voice was obviously naming the stations in Chinese, followed by five English words, ‘get off the bus now.’
回去時又是另一回事。我安心的離開CRI，乘地鐵回木樨地，但忘記哪一站出口。正好，來了一輛公交車。我上車問售票員，并用中文說我遇到的麻煩－－‘Yoyibinguan’，就是友誼賓館。
售票員向我招招手，十分鐘后，我覺得我乘錯車了。我看到的景象不一樣。每一站，都有中文的報站，緊接著五個英文單詞，‘現在請下車’。
I started feeling anxious but stayed on, thinking the Friendship Hotel would appear soon. After almost 40 minutes I feared the worst. This time, everyone got off the bus. It was journey’s end. I realised my tones must have been wrong and the conductor thought I had said the name of another hotel which was near the final stop.
我開始急了，但仍是等，心想友誼賓館不久就到了。但過了40分鐘的車程，我恐怕是我乘錯車了。這是，所有人都下車了。終點站到了。我轉了我的語調我乘錯了，售票員把另一家賓館攪混了。
I hailed a taxi, and when I said ‘Yoyibinguan’, I could tell from his reaction he knew where to take me. After all that travel from Babaoshan to Muxidi and now to this now unknown (to me) locality, I wondered where I was.
我招了部出租車，當我一說‘yoyibinguan’，我看他反應就知道我要去的地方。在我從八寶山到木樨地，并從現在這個我不知道哪里的地方，我想我在哪啊。
I soon found out. Less than one minute into the journey, the taxi passed a familiar landmark. It was the CRI building. I was back
我很快發現。不超過一分鐘的路程，出租車就經過了相似的地標。這里就是CRI大廈，我又回來了。
好心人站在我旁邊，以確定我安全再木樨地下車。周圍的人好像松了口氣。地鐵來了，并再八寶山下車，我的任務完成。我做好了。
Getting back that afternoon was a different matter. I left CRI confidently, took the subway to Muxidi, but couldn’t remember which exit to use. Taking a chance, I looked for the bus. When it arrived, I asked the conductor in the one Chinese word I had been told would get me out of trouble — ‘Yoyibinguan’, which means Friendship Hotel.
The conductor beckoned me aboard, but ten minutes into the journey, I had a feeling I was going the wrong way. The skyline wasn’t slightly familiar. At each stop, a recorded voice was obviously naming the stations in Chinese, followed by five English words, ‘get off the bus now.’
回去時又是另一回事。我安心的離開CRI，乘地鐵回木樨地，但忘記哪一站出口。正好，來了一輛公交車。我上車問售票員，并用中文說我遇到的麻煩－－‘Yoyibinguan’，就是友誼賓館。
售票員向我招招手，十分鐘后，我覺得我乘錯車了。我看到的景象不一樣。每一站，都有中文的報站，緊接著五個英文單詞，‘現在請下車’。
I started feeling anxious but stayed on, thinking the Friendship Hotel would appear soon. After almost 40 minutes I feared the worst. This time, everyone got off the bus. It was journey’s end. I realised my tones must have been wrong and the conductor thought I had said the name of another hotel which was near the final stop.
我開始急了，但仍是等，心想友誼賓館不久就到了。但過了40分鐘的車程，我恐怕是我乘錯車了。這是，所有人都下車了。終點站到了。我轉了我的語調我乘錯了，售票員把另一家賓館攪混了。
I hailed a taxi, and when I said ‘Yoyibinguan’, I could tell from his reaction he knew where to take me. After all that travel from Babaoshan to Muxidi and now to this now unknown (to me) locality, I wondered where I was.
我招了部出租車，當我一說‘yoyibinguan’，我看他反應就知道我要去的地方。在我從八寶山到木樨地，并從現在這個我不知道哪里的地方，我想我在哪啊。
I soon found out. Less than one minute into the journey, the taxi passed a familiar landmark. It was the CRI building. I was back
我很快發現。不超過一分鐘的路程，出租車就經過了相似的地標。這里就是CRI大廈，我又回來了。
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