1.14.10 Yesterday was not the greatest day and probably the first day I realized how I miss the ease of life in the United States. This really is a 3rd world country! We don't yet have a washer & the dirty laundry of a family of 5 is piling up fast. I needed someone to take me to the laundry mat (since I don't know the way.) Three o'clock rolls around, Frances & Porfirio agreed to take me. We got to the "laundry mat” which consists of a huge room full of ladies sitting at sewing machines mass producing Old Navy knock-offs, as well as 3 washers & 3 dryers. Laundry mat??? Ok. Porfirio left to park the car & never came back. One of the seamstresses came over & guarded the washing machines like I was a laundry terrorist looking to stop the machine mid-cycle & put my dirties in. She started speaking spanish which I could not understand, but I quickly got the point that our laundry was not welcome there. So Frances, the twins & I packed up our dirty clothes 'cause Porfirio was still missing & we walked a block & a half to another “laundry mat” which consisted of two washers & dryers! Seeing the garbage bags full of laundry piled up in this place gave me a clue that we weren't going to be serviced here either. At this point, Frances told me it's best to get there early in the morning. DANG IT!!! Porf was still “parking the car” so our options were limited to WALKING HOME dirty laundry and all. Sweet! So we walked about 5 blocks back home and when we arrived my fingers were yelling at me because Frances & I carried the heavy laundry complete with a BIG jug of liquid detergent in that same green plastic tub that we all bathed in which has only 2 tiny handles.
Back home, I could do laundry whenever I wanted without thinking twice. Here, this day, there was absolutely NO option to wash my family's clothes. That was hard to realize. The clothes are building up & I can't do anything about it...and that's frustrating.
To add insult to injury, confirming our location in this world, this was the eve we discovered a new friend in our casa....the scorpion.
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