My room!

Here are some pictures of my room! And here is an explanation of what's going on in them, I guess. So. My house kind of has a double life. One half of it is new, western style, hard floors and carpets. This side has a kitchen, a living area (known to me as the warm area) and two bedrooms, one for my host brother and sister and the other for my parents. The other half is where my room is, and it's the old style part. Sliding doors (the paper on mine is pretty torn up, but I imagine that's just because the kids thought is was fun to poke their fingers though at some point), tatami, open ceilings, and the only bathroom: eastern style. If you know what that is, you just heard a dun dun DUN plot twist noise. No one ever really hangs out on the old side, because it's winter and it's very cold. Maybe they will when it gets hot. There's a very complicated/expensive looking Buddhist altar in the room diagonal to mine. I think it's to my host mothers' parents. Or my host father's, but somehow I get the feeling it's for hers, though I have no idea why. The entryway to the house is in the old part too. Anyway, here's my room. Pretty spare. It's only half of a somewhat bigger room, divided by some roll-up wall looking thing. The other side is storage.

Coming soon: my crazy kyoto weekend! Not that crazy. But fun! And with some good pictures.