Western Toilet Search: Chapter Three

Interlude
If you’ve ever been in a foreign country where you don’t know the language and the people there don’t know your language, you will know that your conversations will more than likely turn into a game of charades…

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Chapter Three: The Demonstration

So at this point we walked back to the teachers’ room, and found that even more teachers had arrived there since we had been out. At this point I think they had pretty much given up on finding a western toilet for me, but that wasn’t enough. They decided to explain how to use the toilets, and the best way for them to explain this to me, was to demonstrate the usage of a Japanese toilet. So my first grade female teacher started showing me how to spread my legs and squat over the imaginary toilet in the teachers’ room (it seemed like she had explained and done this demonstration of this before). But because I was standing there in shock, they thought I wasn’t getting it so the teacher that had given me the tour earlier grabbed my hand and was going to literally show me how to use the toilets. So off we went, but at this point I decided enough was enough, and so I broke away, and tried my best to let him know that I was fine and didn’t need to go that bad. So I went back to my desk, buried my head into my arms, and hid there hoping for this whole episode to blow over, but it didn’t.