It's my life in Japan ! ⇒ in Thailand now!

I'll try to write down " what I think " , " what I feel" and " what I did " on my days in  both English and Jpanese! 日々私の思うこと、感じたこと、したことを、英語と日本語の両方で綴ってみます!

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Solar Light

I did my laundry today,because the weather news said that it would be sunny on this weekend. Before I moved to this apartment,I didn't care about the weather for my laundry. I could do laundry any time I wanted,even if it rained heavily. Because a shower room at the apartment I had lived had a drier.
My mom always complained about that .
" What a lazy daughter !! It is common sense that the clothes are dried by solar light.It kills bacteria! not in the drier!!

I always answered her " I'm not lazy......Drying clothes by using drier is just convenient!"

However She is right ,even if she doesn't know scientfic fact...Japanese dry their clothes at outside, because most of Japanese think the same way as my mom.
But when I had stayed in Canada,I didn't see any clothes at the outside,my host mother dried my clothes by her drier.............

Now I don't have a drier ,I have to dry clothes at the outside.
My clothes dry, basking in the light of the sun and air pollution in the big city...

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今週末は晴れだとお天気ニュースが言うので洗濯をしました。今のアパートに引っ越す前は、お天気なんて気にもしませんでした。前のアパートには、お風呂に乾燥機がついていたので、どんな激しい雨の日でも洗濯ができたのです。うちの母はいつも ”あんたはほんまに横着やねーー!洗濯もんは太陽の光で乾かすんが当たり前でしょ!太陽が殺菌してくれるのに!乾燥機はそんなんしてくれへんよ!”
私はいつも”横着とかちゃうよ。便利やねん”と答えていました。

まあ、うちの母は科学的な事実は知らないでしょうが正しいんですけど。ほとんどの日本人はうちの母と同じように思ってますね。みんな外に干してますから。でも私がカナダに滞在していた時は、そんな光景を目にすることはなかったし、ホストマザーも乾燥機で乾かしてくれてました。

今はもう乾燥機がないので、外に干すしかありません。
私の洋服は、太陽の光と大気汚染にまみれて乾いています。。。

1 Comments:

At 3:32 PM, June 04, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Haha - very amusing insight about drying clothes outside! I too noticed many people in Japan dry their clothes by hanging them outside. This is definitely not common in America. It is quite convenient to simple throw the clothes in the drier, isn't it? ;)

 

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