Laundry

       Laundry is definitely an experience here. They have a washer and dryer, but they only use them for diapers and sheets, everything else is done by hand. As student missionaries we have two options, pay a bit and have the laundry ladies do our laundry or do our own. We all have opted to do our own, at least for now. I’ve hand-washed some clothes before, but not all my clothes, when I’ve done it in the states, I’m also using liquid soap and here they use bar soap. You put the bar in the bucket and then fill it with water. You want to make sure that the soap has gotten in the water. If the water is clear, you know you have to make your own suds! The very first time I washed clothes I found out that this soap gets stains out extremely well. I had a white shirt that had got jam or something on it and after rubbing some soap on it and letting it soak, it came right out, it was amazing! The more you do Laundry the better you get at wringing out your clothes. The first time we all did laundry, all three of us kind of did it all at once, not a good idea. We have a clothes line on our back porch and so we hung up all our clothes there, well it turned out to be too much for the worn rope and the rope broke, dropping all our clothes on the ground. After that we fixed it, but haven’t really hung anything up out there. The reason being, the ants; for some reason they seem to really like our clothes if we hang them up out there. So now we hang our clothes on our curtain rods in our front and extra room. It looks kind of cool when we all do laundry, all our colorful outfits hanging up, we have made our own curtains!