A letter home from study abroad
Well, tuesday was a kind of blah day too. I did my laundry...that took
pretty much all afternoon. It started after class at about 3. I'd
decided that I absolutely needed to find a laundromat this week. (I've
been told that there _is_ one. They've even got driers...Nobody knows
where it is though.) I was getting down to my last few pairs of underwear
(i'd done laundry once before...when i was living with my host family.)
At about 3, i gave in and decided to wash a few tshirts in the sink.
After I did that, I realized what a waste it was to only do a little bit
of laundry at a time...So, I filled the bathtub with water, poured in a
bunch of woolite and threw most of my clothes in. At first I tried to mash
them about by hand, but it was way too awkward....So I put on a pair of
shorts and started to do the wine-making thing....I jumped up and down on
them till the water turned black. At that point, I realized that I didn't
own a clothesline...So I emptied the tub and filled it with fresh water
and poured in some more woolite. I mashed for a bit and put on my last
reasonably clean pair of pants for the trip to progress. I figured i'd at
least be able to find some twine at one of the kisoks on the way...no
dice. Progress didn't have twine either...but they did have clothespins.
So, I headed home with my task at least half completed....I figured I
could improvise and come up with clothesline, even if it were made up of a
serial or 10Base-T line. Luckily, jerry had some extra clothesline which
he gave me. I returned to the stomping, changing the water twice more.
At this point it was about 8:30 and I was exhausted. I spent the rest of
the evening vegging and coping with the fact that my dripping clothes had
poured enough water on the ground for me to observe that my floor is not
indeed flat, but inclined....the lowest part just happens to be where I've
got my bed. So, my towel was sacrificed to the gods of the floor. That
was about all I did on tuesday. I definately appreciate washing machines
more than I used to.