Facts of Life Week #7

A random collection of things we noticed or experienced this week.

1. Most people have their own towel that they bring to the bathroom for drying their hands (at schools, offices, etc).
2. Even though stoplights here are red, yellow and green, a green light is called blue light.
3. The turn lane always gets a green (or blue) arrow after the light turns red. (America needs to adopt this idea).
4. After the rice fields are harvested bright red flowers pop up. (We’ll take pictures and post them soon).
5. Finding oatmeal in a grocery store here is an ordeal. We looked forever and then asked a worker who then asked the manager who then asked other employees. We left the store without oatmeal.
6. At intersections all the lights turn red for three seconds before the light turns green (blue).
7. For some reason homemade brownies in Japan don’t taste very good.