Camping in Japan

...by Sara Ursin. This "Top Ten" was published in the same journal that published one of my blog entries. I thought the list was hilarious and strikingly realistic.

Top 10 Reasons Why Living in Japan is like Camping

10. Garbage must be carried with you wherever you go.
9. Inside and outside are the same temperature.
8. Cooking is done over an open flame.
7. Raingear is brought everywhere.
6. The neighbors hear and see everything you do.
5. The neighbors invite you over for a cold beer.
4. You sleep on the floor.
3. The floor is made of grass.
2. Bugs, bugs, and more bugs.
1. The Squatty-Potty.

Honorable Mentions

• BYOTP - bring your own toilet paper
• the large variety of meat on sticks
• like a campfire, people huddle around a kerosene heater
• laundry is air-dried for all of the neighbors to see