exhausted.

so i just got my first official workout in since i´ve been here....DOING MY LAUNDRY. sheesh it was tiring. not that i´m not a fan of hand-washing everything that you´ve worn in the last couple of weeks, because i am, but when you aren´t one of those people who wears the same thing everyday and you end up having 30 pieces to hand-wash it gets a little exhausting.

around here this is the norm. my house has a little outside sink and we filled some buckets with water to first soak the clothes. then we transfered them to another bucket with soap in it and did this little scrubbing motion that she had to teach me about 50 times before i got it right. for the dirt at the bottom of the pants you use a brush to scrub the fabric. once that´s done you rinse the soap out and squeeze the water into the sink. then i hung the clothes on the clothes line. after i was finished it seemed like it could have stretched about 1 mile. ridiculous. my mom kept saying "muchas ropas." i was kinda embarrassed although it was mine and libby´s clothes from the last two weeks. i must say, i did find a little humor in seeing Spongebob Squarepants boxers hanging next to the traditional peruvian dress.