Laundry

Laundry (bed sheets, bath towels, hand towels, tea towels, dish towels, bath mats, etc.) get done every Tuesday (lower floor) and Thursday (upper floor) by Cheti.  She knows everything about housekeeping, but…she doesn’t speak English.  We do a lot of sign language with each other!  The faculty apartment has a combo washer/dryer.  And I mean combo!  It is one machine that does it all!  However, the dryer (the same drum as the washer) is so hard to understand.  Everything comes out cold and damp so I end up using a drying rack.  Today, she showed me how to crank up the heat and the time.  Four hours later the clothes were so hard, wrinkled, and so extremely dry, they could have walked across the room!  Back to the drying rack for me!  Even my wonderful wool socks looked like they shrunk.  I don’t get how a dryer doesn’t have a lint trap either!

The students have a laundry room that is shared with Cheti where she does the sheets and towels. Her washer is industrial size and she has a special room just to hang dry her laundry before she goes around and makes up everyone’s beds.  Such a lovely service that I so appreciate!  I believe electricity here is expensive and limited.  Hence, we have no dishwashers.

Cheti and Malana clean the kitchens and bathrooms every day, too.  I don’t do that at home!  Our first overnight guest is flying in today from California and normally I would be cleaning to get ready, but there is nothing to do!  This is the life!