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4. Your family will be worried if you cannot eat the foods they serve. Try all foods offered to you. It is also helpful to tell your host family about your likes and dislikes. Your host family might also enjoy it if you try to cook some of the foods you eat at home. 5. Help with household chores as needed. After dinner, offer to help with the dishes, or at least clean up your own dishes. Remember, you are not just a guest but a part of the family. . 6. Keep your room neat. You will be expected to make your own bed. If you use a futon, you should fold it up every morning and take it out every evening. Do not scatter your personal belongings throughout the house. Ask how to use the washing machine and offer to do your own laundry. 7. Respect your family's sense of modesty and do not dress too scantily when using the bathroom and other shared areas of the house. Take your cue from the way other family members dress. 4
8. Having a bath in Japan is very different. Most families take a bath in the evening. If you cannot survive without a morning shower, please inform your family of this and find out what is convenient. Otherwise, take your bath in the evening. Sometimes, Japanese families pay particular care to the order in which members of the family use the bathroom when bathing, so please ask first when and how you ought to bathe. If you are asked to bathe first and the water is too hot, add a little cold water, but remember that other family members will use the same water to bathe after you, so do not make it too cool. You must wash your body outside the tub and use the tub only to soak. Do not put soap in the tub! After taking a bath in your host family's bathtub, please do not drain the tub. Leave the hot water for the next person. Sharing hot bath water is a long-standing Japanese custom that helps save water. We hope you will follow your host family's custom. Finally, use your own bathing products (shampoo, towel, etc.) and do not "share" the family's unless otherwise indicated. 9. As you probably know, you must remove your shoes before entering the house. Ordinarily, after you take off your shoes at the entrance (genkan), arrange them neatly. However, the ‘formal’ way to put away your shoes is to put them in the shoe cabinet (getabako) or wherever you are instructed. While at home you should wear the slippers provided. Most Japanese people wear slippers in the house even in summer. You will find a separate pair of slippers in the toilet. Leave your house slippers outside the toilet door and step into the toilet slippers. Remember to change slippers when you leave the toilet! 5
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