Domesticating Jen G

Remember my failed attempt to do laundry on Friday?  Well Patric and I tried again Friday night.  Let's just say I'm really glad we did a "dry" run with no clothes because we really had no idea, even together, what we were doing.  The brand of the washer/dryer is Fagor.  This is something we had never heard of.  It is a front loading washer which is something that is very common in the States.  But you should see the size of the drum.  I have no idea how a full size family would do a load of wash.  They would have to this daily or every other day at the least.  I have never seen a smaller washer...ever!  So we abandoned laundry again...

As we were heading out to Solaris on Saturday we ran into one of the front desk staff at the elevator in front of our apartment.  We asked him if he would show us how to use the washer.  He looked at us like we were crazy.  We explained that we had no idea how to use it since the instructions (yes, we had found them) were in a different language.  Funny thing about that - they look to be in Spanish.  Anyway, he came in and gave us a crash course.  We had a hard time understanding him but we got the gist of it.  After we returned from Solaris we set about the task of tackling laundry...

We got it started...

But it didn't seem to be getting everything wet.  So I sat and watched for about 10-ish minutes...

After I was sure that the clothes were all getting wet and the washer was doing what it was supposed to do, I walked away and let it do its thing...which took forever!  Finally it finished and we could put the clothes in the dryer...

Which we promptly remembered we forgot to receive instruction on how to use.  I still think we do not know how to use it correctly because no matter what size load we put in it our clothes take at least two hours to dry.  Needles to say we spent all day Sunday doing laundry.  It has definitely been an experience.

We also watched TV all day while laundry was going.  Even on the cable movie channels the cuss words are blanked out, but not all of them.  It's kind of a hit and miss type thing.  All sex scenes are cut.  Most violence is left in.  Very interesting censorship.

Just as we finished laundry and we were about to go to Solaris to get something to eat, it started raining.  It rained for a few hours.  We wound up ordering Domino's Pizza.  How Malaysian is that???

So now I'm pretty caught up...yay!  Monday I will be staying home...I'm kind of bummed about that but I have some important calls to make so I'll be sure to share about that.

See you next post!

Monkey update:  day eight...of course I didn't see any monkeys!  Kind of hard to do when you don't leave the house...  =(