First off, I must give credit where credit is due. Part of the reason I have decided to devote an entire blog entry to such a mundane activity as laundry was because I recently read the blog of my dear friend Brandon (www.brandoninnepal.blogspot.com), and in it he described the long and ridiculous process he is forced to go through in order to have clean clothes whilst he is in Nepal, so I felt it was necessary for me to share with you all the wonders of laundry here.
It all begins in the washer. These washers are tiny, yet have twice as many settings as a normal North American washing machine. And if you put in more than a certain amount of clothes, the machine will simply give up the ghost and die. So you must weigh your laundry (over exaggeration)and make sure you feed it the proper amount so that it will love you and give you clean clothing. The next thing about these machines is that one load takes 2 hours to wash, and therefore you must begin your laundry at a decent time of day, in order to still be awake when it is done. Lastly, dryers only exist at the boy’s dorm (twenty minute walk down a huge hill), so we use nifty drying wracks. Oh, and then there is the great part where each tiny load of laundry costs 5NKR, which is fairly inexpensive, but when you have to do 50 ity bity loads, it adds up. Luckily, I have enough socks and underwear to go 2 weeks without doing a wash, so I’m all set.
However, for the experience (when we have extra time), sometimes Sarah and I simply use the bathtub for our laundry, and then we get to do fun things, like make a laundry rainbow. I thought it was a pretty neat idea.
So, that’s the story of laundry. The end.
It all begins in the washer. These washers are tiny, yet have twice as many settings as a normal North American washing machine. And if you put in more than a certain amount of clothes, the machine will simply give up the ghost and die. So you must weigh your laundry (over exaggeration)and make sure you feed it the proper amount so that it will love you and give you clean clothing. The next thing about these machines is that one load takes 2 hours to wash, and therefore you must begin your laundry at a decent time of day, in order to still be awake when it is done. Lastly, dryers only exist at the boy’s dorm (twenty minute walk down a huge hill), so we use nifty drying wracks. Oh, and then there is the great part where each tiny load of laundry costs 5NKR, which is fairly inexpensive, but when you have to do 50 ity bity loads, it adds up. Luckily, I have enough socks and underwear to go 2 weeks without doing a wash, so I’m all set.
However, for the experience (when we have extra time), sometimes Sarah and I simply use the bathtub for our laundry, and then we get to do fun things, like make a laundry rainbow. I thought it was a pretty neat idea.
So, that’s the story of laundry. The end.
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