Saturday, July 30, 2011

Day 21

Today was a very relaxed Saturday! I slept in until noonish and then just watched tv shows and read for my classes all day long, and it was fabulous. I have also discovered a new gem: hand washing your clothes. With laundry being 6 dollars here, I was obviously pissed when I ran out of socks. Of all things, I run out of socks. I didn't have enough for an entire huge load that will be worth 6 dollars so I decided to try and wash them myself! The biggest pain was plugging the drain, since we don't have one built for it like I do at home. I ended up pushing down on a measuring cup to plug it while I kneaded my clothes with my other hand. It was quite interesting, but so far my clothes seem to be smelling better! I don't think they're as clean as they would be in the washer, but with my $1.50 detergent, I don't think they'd ever be THAT clean. Drying my clothes was also a giant pain, I hung up everything strategically in the shower about 20 minutes before my roommate came home and said she wanted to take a shower. So now my clothes are hung throughout the apartment, some in my closet, some in my bookcases...everywhere. But so far I'd say it is totally worth hand-washing my clothes to save 6 dollars a week! Maybe I'll just machine wash them once a month or so and do touchups every week in the sink. The fascinating possibilities are endless.

I also did something almost as interesting as laundry later on, and stayed in to watch forgetting sarah marshall with some Arcadia peeps. It's so nice to have kind of this family away from home thing going on. I think I'd be a lot more homesick and lost if I didn't have them! I also found out today that megavideo works in Australia! Just being able to watch some of my favorite tv shows somehow makes everything more home-like as well. I sometimes wish I could at least just call my parents or friends when I wanted to and not have it be 3 in the morning, but it's teaching me to be more independent. This is my first push into the real world!

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