After five months here it has been clearly established that it's impossible for us to indulge in any kind of normal luxuries such as make up, fashion or good food/drink.
Fair enough, I can live without those (for a while...!) but if there is one thing I am obsessed about is personal hygiene.
It doesn't matter if I sweat liters and liters of body fluid a day, at the end of the day I need to be/feel clean.
So rusty shower around 7 pm (it's funny cause you can really feel the iron on your skin) and I am ready to go!
And here comes the problem.. what do I wear? I open the wardrobe and there they are, my clothes.. well actually if someone had showed me a picture of that wardrobe one year ago telling me those were my clothes I would have obviously laughed and stated the contrary. Those are NOT my clothes! they are full of wrinkles, holes and they changed colors...
but then again without a washing machine that's what you get.
Now I'm gonna tell you the story of one of my shirts so you get an idea of what they have to go through in order to be "washed"
A yellow t-shirt is thrown into a bucket with a million other clothes (of other colors) and a bit of washing powder. It stays there for a while and then the stirring begins. It sort of is like a washing machine effect except that it's done manually and with cold water. Then the t-shirt and all its friend are thrown on a stone and hit with another stone in order to be cleaned. After this they get rinsed with rusty water and hung out in the sun. Voila', laundry service!
{NOTE: In some countries (thank god, not this one!) it's quite dangerous to leave clothes out in the sun if you don't iron them. This is because in Africa there's a type of fly called mango fly which basically lays eggs in the clothes which are drying out in the sun. If you don't iron the clothes before wearing them, it's a problem. Those eggs will enter your skin and you'll be affected by a weird disease where you have the little animals crawling under your skin.. not nice!
You know the scene from "The mummy"? Where all those bugs in the pyramid enter the guy's skin and kill him? yep, pretty much the same here except that here the insects would be baby flies.. awwwww!!}
So basically my wardrobe is poor, I look like an hobo most of the times and I end up wearing always the same stuff which is still decent looking and not completely ruined (yes I am aware of the fact that they will end up just like the other clothes).
Bottom line is: next time you meet me,TAKE ME SHOPPING!!
I AM IN DESPERATE NEED OF THAT!
Thanks
Fair enough, I can live without those (for a while...!) but if there is one thing I am obsessed about is personal hygiene.
It doesn't matter if I sweat liters and liters of body fluid a day, at the end of the day I need to be/feel clean.
So rusty shower around 7 pm (it's funny cause you can really feel the iron on your skin) and I am ready to go!
And here comes the problem.. what do I wear? I open the wardrobe and there they are, my clothes.. well actually if someone had showed me a picture of that wardrobe one year ago telling me those were my clothes I would have obviously laughed and stated the contrary. Those are NOT my clothes! they are full of wrinkles, holes and they changed colors...
but then again without a washing machine that's what you get.
Now I'm gonna tell you the story of one of my shirts so you get an idea of what they have to go through in order to be "washed"
A yellow t-shirt is thrown into a bucket with a million other clothes (of other colors) and a bit of washing powder. It stays there for a while and then the stirring begins. It sort of is like a washing machine effect except that it's done manually and with cold water. Then the t-shirt and all its friend are thrown on a stone and hit with another stone in order to be cleaned. After this they get rinsed with rusty water and hung out in the sun. Voila', laundry service!
{NOTE: In some countries (thank god, not this one!) it's quite dangerous to leave clothes out in the sun if you don't iron them. This is because in Africa there's a type of fly called mango fly which basically lays eggs in the clothes which are drying out in the sun. If you don't iron the clothes before wearing them, it's a problem. Those eggs will enter your skin and you'll be affected by a weird disease where you have the little animals crawling under your skin.. not nice!
You know the scene from "The mummy"? Where all those bugs in the pyramid enter the guy's skin and kill him? yep, pretty much the same here except that here the insects would be baby flies.. awwwww!!}
So basically my wardrobe is poor, I look like an hobo most of the times and I end up wearing always the same stuff which is still decent looking and not completely ruined (yes I am aware of the fact that they will end up just like the other clothes).
Bottom line is: next time you meet me,TAKE ME SHOPPING!!
I AM IN DESPERATE NEED OF THAT!
Thanks
Ahahah enzy in Milan it's almost sales time!! I'll buy something for you and send a courier <3 btw, back in India bucket became my BFF..and u know, curry and sweat are a fatal duo!
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