This is my analysis of the bathrooms here because who is not interested in a comparison? :) There are flushing toilets in most of the places I have been so far but for some reason none of the toilets here have toilet seats on them (other than Starbucks). This means that squatting is usually the way things are done. Toilet paper is not used here as a general rule. About that... I understand that washing with water is cleaner than toilet paper, honestly I do! but washing with your hand?!? :P give me toilet paper any day of the week. And since the plumbing here can't handle toilet paper it has to go in the bin, which is lovely as I'm sure all of you can imagine. haha. Apparently in San Agustin there aren't flushing toilets so you get to flush by dumping water in the toilet. I practised this in Calgary just before I left so I should be ok....
I had my first real experience with a cockroach yesterday and I failed rather miserably. There was one on our bathroom floor, so I bravely ran to my room to grab a flip flop so I could kill it and then I lost my nerve. These things are pretty big and pretty fast. So I yelled for Eden and she came but by then the thing had disappeared. Now the worst part is that every time I go into the bathroom I am constantly scanning everywhere, I didn't know they could fly!!! so really the cockroach has quite a bit of power in my life right now. lol. I just need to kill one and then I think I'll be ok. Apparently there aren't that many cockroaches in Romblon but there are more geckos, oh well, there really haven't been any here either. Oh and idea that there are lots of mosquitoes in Manila is hilarious, who ever said that needs to take a trip to Inuvik in the summer!
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You don't squat on the toilet seat. You sit on it as if there is a toilet seat cover there.
hmm, have you seen how dirty the public washrooms are? that's gross
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