I'm freezing. . .

Many things to say, but only one thing on my mind at the moment, really. . . I'm so effing COLD! >_< It isn't that the temperature is ridiculous. It's actually somewhere between 40 an 45F, 4-7C at night and is warmer in the day by about 20 degrees Fahrenheit, 10 degrees Celsius. That's not the big issue. The biggest problem is that there is no real way for me to keep this place warm inside. The walls of homes are no longer made of paper in Japan, but they might as well be. Japan has this love for glass, concrete, and fake wood. (Actually, there are many places with real wood, but it is cut about 20cm thick and usually used as a table or wall piece.) I don't think they believe in insulation in this country. Basically, whatever you are feeling outside, it's about the same in your home. At school, especially the junior high school, there are nothing but glass sliding doors all over the place connecting to the outside world. At this time of year, they open up a lot of these doors and create a nice breezy ice box for the students to enjoy. They claim it "brings in fresh, healthy air". I think they need to notice the little girls and boys walking around the schools with heat pads and blue lips and make another assessment of that situation. . . My shower is in a room attached to my kitchen. The second that shower door opens up, all the steam fills the kitchen for a few minutes and then sneaks out the drafty kitchen window. When I get out, I have to go through the cold kitchen, up the cold and frighteningly steep stairs, and into the freezing cold bedroom. Upstairs, the two rooms both have those same drafty windows which mysteriously let a constant cool breeze flow through the whole top floor. YAY! I have had people come over to my place and tell me how much they like it, how cute it is, how they'd love to have a house instead of a tiny little apartment. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING: in summer, when all you have to do is turn on a fan or the A/C box to cool down your entire place and, in winter, when all you have to do is turn on a little space heater or change that A/C box to the heat setting to warm up your ENTIRE place, please think about this boiling hot or freezing cold house that you would have loved. . . while you are lazing about in comfort.