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Day 4 "Living"
Ok one more shot of the room and the kimonos. They're so awesome. I can't believe they had one my size!
Deadjournal Entry for that day.
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Day 4 "Living"
Ok one more shot of the room and the kimonos. They're so awesome. I can't believe they had one my size!
Deadjournal Entry for that day.
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This is
definitely the coolest part of the trip so far. I'm all about seeing what
the regular people do in a culture. I much rather live with people and
walk the streets normally than visit tourist trap after tourist trap. This
is the closest that I was going to get to that. That night our hotel was a
resort of sorts. The room was designed to be a really nice but ordinary
Japanese room. It was small, but what I expected. Ok from this
picture you can't really tell how big the room is. I mean it's really not
big at all, and this is supposed to be some sort of special "resort" room.
I'm not complaining about the size of the room but it really makes me think
about why the Japanese don't have a lot of stuff and just live simple lives.
There's no room to put it! I guess I'm spoiled by America's large
seemingly never-ending space. I mean if I run out of room in my house I
can always just put stuff outside. I have a garage and a lawn and if I
need more space I can build a little shack outside. It'll only cost me $80
or so at home depot. Wait I know. Here's a general layout of the
room:
The
little triangle gray shaded area is what you can see in the picture. To
further help you out I'm also including a picture of the layout of the room when
I'm in it. Yeah, you kind of see a problem. Pity my parents. I
couldn't really fit into the bathroom so I kind of just stood in the walkway and
aimed for the toilet that way. ^_^ Did you know that most places in
Japan the toilets are little more than porcelain holes in the ground? Oh
yeah you have to squat if you have to go. Nothing to sit on. I hope
you've been practicing the 