For those who don't know, in a lot of places in Korea you can't flush toilet paper down the toilet b/c the pipes can't handle it. In Chuncheon we couldn't flush it in the dorms. So I thought we couldn't here in Gumi.
But I finally had that conversation with my host mom. This also cleared up her question about why the tiniest of tiny waste baskets next to the toilet started to become full more quickly when I moved in. Oh cross cultural misunderstanding. Who would've thought that even wiping your ass could be so complicated?? ^_^
so just to be clear, you were filling up your host family's trash can with poopy-TP? ;)
ReplyDeleteBasically, yes. Hence, AWKWARD!!! Though, not THAT awkward. She said it was fine. (It's not weird to do that in Korea, like you do that in a lot of public restrooms) But still, if I don't have to put my tp in the waste basket, then I definitely don't want to!
ReplyDeleteThough I will say, since we're talking about poop, my poop is totally different here! It like comes out cleaner... I think it's b/c of all the veggies we eat here. So yeah, less wiping. hehe.