The washing machine at my homestay is broken. Apparently it will fill up with water, but not complete the rest of the cycle. Of course, this comes at the worst possible time...I had no clean clothes, and I didn't know what to do. Today I decided to ask the housekeeper how she had washed clothes the other day. Sure enough, it was a washboard in the back patio.
So I spent a good portion of the afternoon, scrubbing my clothes on the washboard. This was new - I've been able to do my own laundry for quite some time and I know how to hang clothes on a line to dry, but washing by hand... It's harder than it looks. Actually the most difficult part was wringing my recently-rinsed clothes to get out as much water as possible before hanging them up to dry. If I had had a second set of hands, everything would have been much easier. My clothes were still dripping a little when I hung them on the line. Needless to say, I was soaked by the time I finished and my hands were red from the soap and from jean-burn.
On the plus side, I have no experienced how many Mexicans have to wash their clothes every time. The sad thing is that I still have a mountain of dirty clothes in my room, so I'll be repeating this experience in the near future. Hopefully, the washing machine will be back in business soon.
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Oh, yes. The joys of washing dirty clothes. I'm glad neither Dulce nor I have to wash outerwear by hand. Ropa interior is so much easier than outerwear. true fact.
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain. Our washer and dryer broke before we even arrived here, so we always send our clothes to a laundromat, but they put it in the dryer there, and I have some stuff that'll get ruined in teh dryer, so I pretty frequently have to hand-scrub the rest of the clothes. Spent two hours on it today!
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