Bei Gai

You'll understand the title in a minute. But for now, just sit back and enjoy my embarrassment.

So, just for your information, I'm actually an intern now for a hotel and it's been.... interesting I guess. Meeting new faces, learning new stuff, its pretty informational.

But working in this industry always makes me regret on one thing.

I should have worked harder on my Mandarin skills.
Now, I do understand Mandarin, and I can speak... fairly basic words to cover my ass you know? But really, the things I do to make myself understand some guests.

So, what happened today, is a learning point for me to start speaking Mandarin more wtf.

What happened was, while I was busy sending out some emails, one of my supervisor called me. He mentioned that a guest needed help with something and he was gonna transfer the call to me.

Being me, I thought nothing of it, thinking 'oh maybe its some Korean guest, I know enough Korean to survive, bring it.'

Until 5 seconds before he transferred the call, he went 'Its a Chinese guest, she can only speak Chinese' before leaving me alone to die wtf.

It was too late, I had no chance of rebuttal fml.

Outside I was all 'Yes how can I help you' but inside I'm like 'Fuckfuckfuck I can't do this my Chinese cannot make it omg halp'

The guest asked for a bei gai.

In my heart I'm like 'Wtf is that what is a bei gai'

Nodding (Obviously my brain thinks the guest can see me wtf), I thanked the guest and quickly went to google translate.

It gave me this.

#1

So I'm like okay, pretty weird to request for a lid for no reason, so I phoned Housekeeping and asked them for a lid.

I would just like to add that the Housekeeper who answered the phone was Malay so I couldn't even use the Mandarin to cover up my bullshit.

Anyways, after phoning them, I spammed Whatsapp and asked my friends.

 

#2

And one of them replied.

#3

Can you all just imagine the horror on my face wtf.

ASAP called Housekeeping but it was too late fml.

Oh wells, at least I learned a new word wtf.

This was a serious wake up call to start speaking more mandarin, although my friend tells me I have this weird accent when I speak it, and that its funny and she laughs everytime.

Additionally, I learnt to always call my friends and ask them wtf a word is, before I take action.

Lesson learnt.

When your Chinese teacher calls you to stand the fuck up and read, you read. READ AND LEARN THE WORDS.

Annyeong.