We are at Hotel Novoibirsk and have wireless internet in the hotel and so I am happy to get to write. We have a new phone number for the rest of Russia. If anyone needs to Skype us you can. Incoming calls are free. The number is 8 913 476 4689. Make sure there is a little Russian flag by the number.
Today we got up and went to the missionary conference. Tyler's mission president offered to sneak us in and it was fun. We heard the mission president and his wife and Elder Scott and President Paul. They gave great talks. We were really tired and freezing cold because we sat in the back by the air conditioner. When we got back to the hotel we tried to take a nap because we are so tired. We are struggling with Jet lag. We have a hard time staying awake in the day and going to sleep at night. We should be out seeing the city and breathing the exhaust and cig. smoke but we decided to just relax awhile. I asked Tyler "Dont we get a P day?" He is watching a movie in Russian and I did my laundry which looks like this:
You put some clothes in the bathtub
Put soap and water in the tub to cover the clothes
step into the tub and walk on the clothes and kick them around
drain the tub and feel satisfaction because the water is a shade darker yellow than what came out of the tap originally.
Spray clean (well not really clean, just slightly yellow) water on the clothes
Rinse them as well as possible
Wring the clothes out one by one
hang them on a hanger on the shower rod until it gets too heavy and suddenly falls down.
Quickly pick up the clothes and hang them on the towel rack
Pretend that the 3 second rule applies to soaking wet clothes too and tell yourself that surely the floor can't be dirtier than the water you just washed the clothes in.
rehang the shower rod
put a towel under the clothes so the floor doesn't get wet and make you fall later or incur a $900 flood fee (because you are an American)
take a shower because you are now all wet and also because you want to have that nice- just-showered- 80% clean feeling.
That is it in a nutshell. You can also do this in the sink but skip the walking and kicking step.
We will write again if anything exciting happens.
Love to all
Christy and Ty.
Okay. This was another laugh out loud post! I never thought anyone could make my Ukraine experience look better and you have! I ALWAYS had a washer. It took five hours but it washed and wrung and all I had to do was hang up the clothes for that crisp, crackly line dry feeling.
ReplyDeleteWe luckily didn't run into issues with people charging us for incidents just because we were American's but Rasts did and so did Straders. Rast had a pen break on the couch (none of us had ever seen the pen before AND it was underneath the blankets used to cover the couch) and ink got all over. We worked really hard to get the pen ink off-hairspray works wonders on ink-but they threatened to make the Rasts replace the couch. They may have had to pay something anyway. I'm not sure.
Straders had some incident with a how water heater? Crazy stuff.
Thanks for this mornings laugh.
Oh, the yellow water! I remember letting the water run for several minutes, trying to get the yellow to wash through, but it's obvious that the entire city was like that as no amount of running changed the tinge. One thing we were able to find at a grocery store was bleach. When we told our translator that we wanted to use it for laundry, she looked at us like there was something wrong with us. Regardless, it did help replace some of the white in our underclothes. Be careful of the $100 flushing-bleach-down-the-drain penalty though. haha
ReplyDeleteI also was laughing out loud at your post about the laundry. I especially loved the part where the shower rod fell down. I laughed so hard. You are a real trooper.
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