Japanese Etiquette & Tradition, 3/08/10, Period 5

[intraspective]

Once again, class was set up in the Danger Shop.

Unlike usual, today's setting was...

A bathroom.

Algren was there, too. This much was probably obvious. And he was looking tired. Amused, but tired.

"Japanese bathrooms are different from the ones that you see out here," he informed the class, not bothering with any pleasantries before leaping into the lecture. There were no pleasantries to be had when you spent a part of your weekend changing your best friend's diaper. "The bathroom in Japan is two rooms; one with a sink where you undress, and another, with a shower and a bathtub. Don't bother looking for the toilet, which is essentially a glorified hole in the floor. It's likely to be found in a different room entirely."

Confused yet?

"There's a bit of a ritual to bathing. Before you get into the tub, you wash yourself off with water from a separate bowl. The tub itself is just for soaking in, and the water that's drawn tends to be pretty hot, compared to what most people around here use. Soap is applied outside of the tub, and is rinsed off outside of it as well. When you're done doing the cleaning with the soap? Get back in and soak some more."

Because they apparently never did anything simply in Japan, anymore. Algren shrugged.

"The bathwater is generally kept clean so that it can be used by other people in the household. I can't imagine too many people are so desperate to leap into somebody else's dirty water." And here, he was taking pains to not make eye-contact with any medieval students in the room. Ignore that. "There's no assignment today, because I'm not going to be the teacher who assigns baths to my students. Take it easy. Try to forget the weekend."

Nathan would be trying to forget diapers.

[Posted at the request of shiroi_tiger, I swear I'll stop spamming you all now. Wait for the OCD is uuup!]

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Re: OOC

[shiroi_tiger]

Thank you much, hon!