Incident With Shoes

The very first night that I got here, I ate some Indian food with a guy named Thiru.  I also bought some really great iced green jasmine tea made by a company called 'Heaven and Earth'.  Today, I walked out of my room to go to the vending machine to get some of that tea.  A girl, Cheryl commented 'oh, not wearing slippers'.  To which I responded, 'oh yeah, I guess being barefoot outside is an American thing.  And we usually call them shoes'.  But just a second ago, I sent her this Facebook message: 'but the Sinaporean system of strictly no shoes inside, and always shoes outside definitely works better' ; Because it is totally true. The floors of all of the Singaporean dorm rooms are all cleaner than mine. Especially noticable on white table. Tsk tsk. Time to sweep.