Family Life HOMEWORK

a. When do children usually leave home?
I regarded "leave home" as "an independent from parents" not just "leave for school". Is that correct? By the way, I'd like to talk about this question taking my older sister and I for example. She left home when she enterd unversity in Tokyo, and she started living alone. On the other hand, I live with my parents now because I study at local university, so I'll leave home when I get a job after graduating. Although the time for leaving home depends on person, it seems that there are just about two types in Japan. One example is the time when people enter university in another prefecture like my sister, and another is when they graduate and get a job.

b. How many people live in your home?
There are five in my family, but my sister lives in Tokyo and she works as an accountant, so five, my father, mother, a cat and me live togeter now. When my sister returned home at the end of the year, we had really nice time. After all, I think family is wonderful!!

c. Do you have a head of family?
Yes! My fater is in the position. Although he has been changing a little, he was formaly really obstinate and hardheaded, and he was exact "Kyushu danji". He has become rather soft recently, so I like him now better than the past. Actually, the most important person is of course my mother!! My father will not be able to live without her!!

d. Who does the housework?
My mother does. I sometimes help her but almost all of housework are completely by my mother. I think she is exast the mirror of the housmaker. Although there is ideal person whom I can learn a lot of things from, regrettably I'm not good at cleaning, washing and other wouswork, so I take charge of going supermarket to buy groceries, taking in the laundry from outside, sometimes cooking and so on. As you know, my father can do nothing of housework.

e. Who runs the family?
I have two answers. From the finance aspect, my father runs my family, but in essense, my mother runs. I think maybe both is necessary for running my family!!

f. How many rooms do you have to sleep in?
In my family case, my parents sleep in one room togeter, and I sleep in my room alone. When I was a child, we slept togeter in the same room, but since I got my own private room, I started to sleep separately. I really don't want to sleep with my father in the same room because his snore is very noisy and annoying!! (I'm sorry...)