Dorm+Life

= Life in the Dormitory's =

Routine
 * The routine is very precise in Japan, right form the time in which you wake up until the time of your last dormitory meeting of the day, the daily rotine is planned to the minute. This strict routine was the hardest thing to get used to over there. You quickly adjust and I admire the Japanese so much for the way they go about their day. This is something you have to experience before it makes sense.

Sleeping
 * I slept on a futon in my room which was extremely comfortable and this was packed away each day in a cupboard. All bedding is supplied by the school.

Study
 * Throughout the course of a day, you have between 2-3 hours of study time, inlcuding the 2 hours of study that is compulsory for every dormitory student to do each night, as well as IS (independent study) periods given at school.
 * I found this time more than enough in order to complete the work I bought over from JPC.

Freetime
 * During freetime in the dormitories most the students visit other domritories so they can talk with their friends. It is in this time in which you need to have showers, and use the telephone etc.
 * ====== It is also in this time in which your dormitory sometimes your room will have to clean the communal bathroom, clean the school's motel after special occasions etc. ======

Bathing
 * You are required to shower each night, following dinner and before study time. It took abour 3 nights in order to understand fully what was aked of me in this situation and how to go about showering while also respecting this very important part of Japanese culture.
 * Yes, the showers there are communal, but this was the least of my worries once I was used to it.
 * Be conscious that you are expected to clean, and condition your hair each nights (this applies to the girls, I presume that the boys will have similar rules there too).

Laundry
 * In each Dormitory there is six rooms with 4 students in each room, so 24 students to a dorm, which is 3 stories high.
 * Each floor has a 2 washing machines and 1 clothes dryer. You are able to do washing in free time and in my entire time in Japan I never saw an iron. The girls didn't wash their pleated school skirts in the washing machine, maybe they are dry cleaned in the holidays, (I'm not sure) but I just spot cleaned it a few times. I'm not sure what the boys do with their trousers. All other items of clothing get thrown in the washing machine, the girls in the dorm would just hang their school shirts as soon as they came out of the dryer and they always looked okay so I did the same. Everything else was folded. Remember to buy some washing powder for the washing machine in the town when you get the opportunity.

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