Laundry

laundry day makes me so much more thankful for washing and drying machines back home. it involves filling a bucket with water and guessing how much detergent it will take to get kolkata street smells off my clothes. the first attempt was an epic fail. taylor smelled me from a few feet away. i was forced to wash my clothes a second time. the second attempt was also an epic fail because i used way too much detergent so it took like 5 rinses to get all the soap out. the key to success is soaking clothes for at least 30 mins. then you have to ring everything out by hand which if you think about ringing out 10 items multiple times between rinses, it gets real old real quick. at the end of laundry sessions, i am drenched in sweat and soaked with soapy water. we then have to hang up our clothes to dry. this seems simple enough but during the rainy season its super humid so it takes 3 days for clothes to dry. i go back and forth every day between wishing i would have packed more so i didnt have to wash as often and wishing i would have packed a washing machine. washing clothes by had it a character builder for sure. no i will not be continuing this practice when i get home.

this is life in kolkata.