Thursday, October 4, 2007

Conserving space


One aspect of Japan that I am constantly amazed at is how they fit everything in to such tiny spaces. This is a photograph of my dorm room. Before coming here I wandered how I was going to fit myself (and share) into an eight tatami mat sized room. Not that I really knew how big that was, but 8 did not sound like a very large number to me. Back in my old room, it was so messy and crowed because we had a mini-refrigerator, a t.v and so on that it really took up a lot of space. But because those things are not allowed in our dorm rooms even thought these rooms are a lot smaller then my dorm rooms back at Witt in many ways my dorm room now seems a lot bigger.
Seeing this aspect makes me wish that I had chosen a host family to see how a Japanese family uses that small amount of space they have in effective ways. While out this weekend I will try to find accepts of Japanese cultural that reflect this idea.








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