It's truly a water closet!!

There is a bathroom for adults in the pre-school. The teacher's bathroom. To enter you have to open the door and turn sideways in order to fit through the doorway and past the sink. Then you are immediately faced with another door. Step into the second doorway in order to shut the outer door.

Keep that second door open, turn around and lock the outer door. Now, with the door leading to the toilet open take off your jacket and find a place for your belongings. Step towards the toilet, but turn around before you enter the closet with the toilet in it (it is smaller than a hall closet - and much narrower too).

There is very limited room as next to the toilet is a radiator. They keep the radiator running and the roll of toilet paper sits on top of the hot radiator... which gives you hot toilet paper.

Now, I suggest you leave that middle door open or you will have to sit down again when you're ready to leave in order to open the door. Take a little step out of the closet and you're back at the sink.

BE CAREFUL HERE!! Do not back up even a half step!! Hidden on the wall is a shower head and faucet handle. A very sensitive faucet handle! If you back in to it ever so gently you will turn on the shower head behind you and soak your back, your jacket hanging on the wall, and all of your belongings. Additionally this shower head is not fixed to the wall but is rather on a flexible hose. If you reach for the nozzle you are quite likely to knock it off the wall and then soak your pants and socks (or shoes if you're still wearing them).

This happens frequently. There is a drain in the middle of the floor - and the floor is quite often wet. (I know this because you don't wear shoes inside the school and so I go to the bathroom in my socks. My socks are usually wet before I get in to the toilet closet.)

Now you've washed your hands, drenched your back, soaked your socks, and doused your jacket - you're ready to begin your search for a non-existent towel before you head back out in to literally freezing cold weather for a 10 minute walk to an unheated bus.