Morning light squeezed through the cracks in the window lattice, as usual, trying to wake the person still fast asleep. But when I blearily opened my eyes, the sight before me snapped me wide awake: Northeast China, and a heated brick bed. Before I could fully process what was happening, deafening snores came from beside me. I stiffly turned my head and saw a stout, burly woman sprawled beside me. And so began my bizarre journey with a big man's feet.
