Near Miss

Yesterday our language teacher asked a student who had recently returned from vacation in east Asia where she had stayed. "In a sunduk," she replied. The teacher looked really confused, and I couldn't really figure out why. "Sunduk" was pretty close to "funduk," the word for hotel that she was fumbling for. It took a few seconds, but they did get it cleared up.

Today, with a different teacher, we learned what a "sunduk" is:

It's a carton.