Nakey Time

First day of school nightmare: coming to school in your underwear. Oh wait, it happens every day in China. At the school I teach, I lead a parade of naked children outside every day to go play on the hot playground. After fifteen minutes of playtime, the kids get a little sponge bath with a damp towel before starting English class again. Oh to be a little kid in China.

            The little babies don’t have diapers here in China. They either go completely pantsless or wear a breezier variation of pants complete with a gaping hole, so they can pop a squat wherever they please, whenever they please. 

Alright, China, alright.

            The other day, I was in my towel, hanging my clothes to dry outside, and my towel fell. My roommates dance on their window bench in their underwear. Our neighbors love us.

           

We took a train to Changsha last weekend, (which is a city north of the city I live in, Zhongshan). In the hotel, the bathroom wall was glass but had a curtain for the prudes, like my roomie, Micah, who pulled the curtain while she showered. When I went in to take my shower, I realized the curtain was a one-sided curtain, so you could see through it from inside the bathroom but you couldn’t see anything from the room. Um, kind of creepy? I was taking my sweet time getting undressed, taking a pee, brushing my teeth, and I kept looking over at Micah through the curtain, because I was just so weirded out. As I'm turning the water on, I look over and see the flowery opaque curtain bunched to the side. The curtain had been pulled to the side the entire time, and I just thought it was a one-sided curtain.                                                             I prudishly pulled the curtain and finished my shower.

Embarrassed kitty.

Loves,

Justine