30 things I wont miss about Japan

...and here are the things I will be glad to leave behind!

1. Being stared at in a completely unsubtle manner
2. The smell (fishy…oden…greasy) when u walk into a SevenEleven
3. The lack of spatial awareness, as people walk into you, or do not move into single file on a narrow road.
4. Old men who urinate in rice fields (saw it on my way to school once!)
5. Oden....yuck
6. The smell of green tea
7. The extremes of winter and summer - frostbite or sweaty betty...I don't know which is better!
8. Not knowing whats going on at work
9. Dyed orange hair...it just looks bad!
10. The hair that is big and back-combed, and then has the little poodle / rat's tail curls round the front
11. Struggling with a language that just doesn't fit me!!!
12. Small clothes sizes!
13. Mullets!
14. 90 degree bent over old people
15. Being given a plastic fork at 7/11, even when ive been going there for 2 years and I can obviously use chopsticks (this happened to me today!)
16. Rude old people who push in - getting on a train, in the supermarket etc (although, they do it in England too!)
17. Japanese drivers who reverse into me in carparks
18. Listening to noodles being slurped
19. Listening to snorts and sniffles, rather than a nose being blown
20. Listening to teachers telling me how tired they are, then staying at school just for appearances sake
21. Students who have to confer with friends over every answer before they will speak
22. Teachers who have no concept of classroom management, or discipline
23. The dates and ‘right times’ for things ; when you can go to the beach, when the heater / aircon is turned on etc
24. Teachers who mumble and talk to themselves
25. Bugs…evil evil bugs
26. Waking up with 10 mozzy bites
27. Scary typhoons and unsettling earthquakes
28. Sweet, thick, not sandwich-suitable, bread
29. The inconvenience of always having to use cash, and the atms that close ridiculously early.
30. Squat toilets