Part of me wants to write a post - I know that I should and that I want to get back into the swing of blogging. And I know that other people (I'm looking at you Mommy and Omo and Gram) enjoy it. But I'm feeling uninspired. I don't know what to write! Please, please, please, if there are things you are interested in knowing about my life or about Thailand I would love some inspiration! A simple question can inspire a short novel response from me (my cousin who is soon to be attending Bryn Mawr can attest to this - her messages to me are short and simple, sometimes just one question! and yet each time I manage to write a several paragraph response) so again, please hit me with some ideas!
Anyway, I guess today I'll talk about laundry.
In Chaiyaphum, laundry was the bane of my existence. My life there was so easy and so happy and laundry was the one thing I never got used to. The apartment/hotel I rented a room at didn't have a washing machine and there wasn't a "laundromat" (which here is basically just someone who owns 3 or 4 washing machines and lets other people pay to use them) within walking distance so I had to give my laundry to someone else to do. Now, you might be thinking, "That sounds nice! I want someone else to do my laundry! Gosh, Caroline, why are you complaining about someone else doing your laundry?" But its not all its cracked up to be. For one thing, the lady I gave it to didn't want to do my undergarments. So I had to hand wash them. I hate hand washing (yeah, yeah, first world problem, I know - but still, does anyone actually like hand washing their clothes?) Also, I just like being in control when it comes to laundry. I like checking the pockets right before I put the laundry in and putting the new blanket and towel in together so that when they shed/bleed they are the same color and it really won't matter. That's just the way it is for me. So even though I don't enjoy doing laundry, I definitely prefer doing my own laundry myself.
Happily, here in Pak Chong I do get to do my own laundry. The landlady here does other people's laundry but I am also able to use the machines myself! It is 30 baht (1$) for a load and because I have to hang dry and I have limited space I end up doing laundry a lot more frequently than I would in the U.S. because I don't want it to build up. Of course, it build up some anyway because I'm me but I don't let it build up nearly as much as I did in Chaiyaphum.
See what I mean about needing inspiration? I just wrote a post about doing laundry! But just in case you all were curious about what laundry is like in Thailand, this pretty much sums it up. A lot of people send their laundry out to people like my landlady. She washes, drys, and irons and it probably costs less than 100 baht per load (just an estimate). Yet, I still prefer to do my own. In fact, that's what I'll be doing after school today!
Anyway, I guess today I'll talk about laundry.
In Chaiyaphum, laundry was the bane of my existence. My life there was so easy and so happy and laundry was the one thing I never got used to. The apartment/hotel I rented a room at didn't have a washing machine and there wasn't a "laundromat" (which here is basically just someone who owns 3 or 4 washing machines and lets other people pay to use them) within walking distance so I had to give my laundry to someone else to do. Now, you might be thinking, "That sounds nice! I want someone else to do my laundry! Gosh, Caroline, why are you complaining about someone else doing your laundry?" But its not all its cracked up to be. For one thing, the lady I gave it to didn't want to do my undergarments. So I had to hand wash them. I hate hand washing (yeah, yeah, first world problem, I know - but still, does anyone actually like hand washing their clothes?) Also, I just like being in control when it comes to laundry. I like checking the pockets right before I put the laundry in and putting the new blanket and towel in together so that when they shed/bleed they are the same color and it really won't matter. That's just the way it is for me. So even though I don't enjoy doing laundry, I definitely prefer doing my own laundry myself.
Happily, here in Pak Chong I do get to do my own laundry. The landlady here does other people's laundry but I am also able to use the machines myself! It is 30 baht (1$) for a load and because I have to hang dry and I have limited space I end up doing laundry a lot more frequently than I would in the U.S. because I don't want it to build up. Of course, it build up some anyway because I'm me but I don't let it build up nearly as much as I did in Chaiyaphum.
See what I mean about needing inspiration? I just wrote a post about doing laundry! But just in case you all were curious about what laundry is like in Thailand, this pretty much sums it up. A lot of people send their laundry out to people like my landlady. She washes, drys, and irons and it probably costs less than 100 baht per load (just an estimate). Yet, I still prefer to do my own. In fact, that's what I'll be doing after school today!
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