Traveling Tips, Toilets And True Love, Japan
Here is a tip to dealing with culture shock that they didn't mention in the pre-departure lectures at UQ: before going to your host country, go somewhere else where the culture shock experience is about ten times worse.
Now, I know I'm biased because I've been to Japan before and I speak some of the language, but still, going from China to Japan was like going to heaven for me.
Every time a car stopped at the lights I wanted to give the driver a hug.
Every ...