Saturday, November 18, 2006

Squatty Potties (Don't worry, no pictures with this post!)

Are you aware of the difference in bathroom habits between China and America?
Here they have toilets (if you are lucky) in the ground or floor. Many Western children call thse "squatty potties".

Most public restrooms are exactly that, public. An open room with several oval shaped "toilets" set in the floor. This aspect makes outings with children somewhat complicated. With boys, at least it's easy most of the time. It can be difficult if the "mood" hits, though.

Today we visited our ayi's house for the first time. While we were there, Huck said "I have to go potty." So, she took him to go (not in her house as they have public bathrooms in the villages). Later I asked Huck where he went potty at Ayi's house. He replied, "in the floor."

2 Comments:

At Sun Nov 19, 05:46:00 PM PST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I want to see the toilets

 
At Sun Nov 19, 05:47:00 PM PST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Surely I'm not the only one that want's to see a picture.

 

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