Freaking me out

[guanin]

Okay. I live in a dorm, right? A dorm with shared bathrooms on every floor. Every floor is divided by sex. You get women on one floor, men in the next, etc. Since we have single rooms versus the fully equipped flats of my previous dorm (where floors weren't stratified this way, I think), I'm assuming that the reason here might be, oh, I don't know, the shared bathrooms, where at any given moment someone is getting out of the shower draped in a skimpy towel or is washing her face or the other stuff. Otherwise known as the kind of stuff I don't like to do in front of anyone, but I make do as long as at least it's a female someone, but then for some reason that I cannot comprehend, guys (yes, male guys), seem to have no problem in wandering in, going to the bathroom, taking a shower, or just hanging out with their female friend while she slaps some makeup on. Am I the only one who thinks this is not acceptable? actually, I know I'm not. I talked about this with another girl my first week here. She's from Singapore and suggested that maybe it was a cultural thing, but it was freaking her out, too. I can't believe I actually miss my old dorm.

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[guanin.livejournal.com]

Well, the shower stalls are firmly shut cubicles, so that's not really a problem. I stumbled into this guy at the entrance to the bathroom itself. What bugs me more is when I'm at the toilet, you know?

I don't know if there are public baths or not.

[drakochi.livejournal.com]

Ah, that I would know.

At my job, on my floor, the men's and women's washrooms aren't in the same area, they are about 1 minute of walking distance between them. From the department that I work in the women's washroom is closer that the men's.

On weekends like my department is the only one opened (the team leaders and boss aren't there) the guys take the liberty to go to the women's washroom. I can not really oppose that because it was like this before I arrived, and even if they more or less asked me if I was bothered by it, I just shrugged and said that I didn't mind even if I do.

So every time on weekend when I want to go to the bathroom I have to make sure that ever guy is at their desks and hope that no one goes to the washroom when I am in it.