Minnesota's life style report

● Introduction
I chose these them by this report because I was interested about overseas life since before. And this summer vacation I went to Minnesota of America and then I could experience about American culture, American life style and so on. I could study during home stay program of overseas induction a month. Before I go to Minnesota, Especially I interested in about American food and about bath. Because I thought that American people eat meat foods everyday and in bath time, usually people use shower. And before I go to Minnesota, I heard that American people not use laundry everyday. So, I intended to conduct an investigation into it.
And I am based on such a thing and I intend to introduce it.

● About breakfast
In America almost people’s houses eat cereal (cornflakes) on Monday to Friday at the morning as a breakfast. My home which my home stay family also has many kinds of Cereals, Oatmeal and Granola on the cabinet. This is American style.
Cereal only as for taking it with milk is very popular during any people regardless of age or sex is popular food in U.S.A. without asking it as a meal to be able to simplify. Also many cereals are exhibited to around 50 meters in super. The kind is such abundant, too. Also if busy time, if I wear milk to a cereal we can eat very easy and we get the nourishment well, too.
Because I was weak in milk, I seldom ate the cereal, but I liked Granola mixed dried fruit and seed of sunflower. Its taste was so good. Especially My host mother have a baby so, she can’t have long time to eat breakfast enough. That is why cereal is very good breakfast which has many energy and simple.
For a health-oriented adult, ‘Granola’ seems to be popular, but for children the cereal of the colorful color that a lot of pigments seem to included. Also bread has many kind and in my host family, we often eat bagel.
● About bath
In America there is not costume to take a bath. I know it before go to America. In fact my host family, I had been used take a shower and not take a bath for a month.
My mother said me if you want to take a bat, please use. But it was said that I saved hot water and might enter, but there was not the place that of course washed a body and used a shower because I was in same a washroom as a restroom because it was troublesome. How to take a shower everyday,
Hit the pocket which caught hair such as the small colander in the place of the drainage, and the use back took the garbage with a shower oneself.
And after I take a shower, I cleaned the drop of water which stuck to the wall with a thing such as a windshield wiper built over the wall by drainage
When I use bath room the steam opens all over the bathroom even if I attach a ventilation fan although there is a shower curtain. And there does not come to have same the minimum facilities of the bath as a restroom like a Japanese hotel.
Because various things such as laundry or a washing face tool are put together, so I thought that I became serious if I forgot a ventilation fan.

●About laundry
I have heard about American laundry style that they do not dry laundries outside. In fact, my host family did not often do laundry like Japanese family. They keep their laundries at the bath room during several days or a week, and then do laundry once a week. There are a big laundry machine and dry machine in the basement room. If they do laundry, they never dry outside like in Japan. In the first week, I did not wonder about it; however, one day I was wondering why they do not dry outside, so I asked my host mother about it. According to her, American rarely dry laundries outside because they think the view is the more important. If they dry outside, it would absolutely be interruption. Some people may think it’s annoying. In Japan, it is a part of the culture to dry outside, but in America, it is not. Some area has a legal which not allow doing it. At the apartment, sometimes people dry outside, but they rarely do that. I had been in Minnesota for a month, but I never saw laundries outside like I saw in Japan.

● conclusion
From prior thought and investigation, I knew that there is a difference of various cultures and when I compare it with U.S.A. and Japan, and there is difference in life style from there. However, what I really went to U.S.A., and I experienced was if there was the so thing, there was the knowledge different in that I took without permission. And in this Minnesota life taught me many things. I could experience big surprise and I could get many chances.

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