I did a bulk of laundry today. Unfortunately because I'm surrounded by Canadians & Americans I get mocked for saying "going to do my washing" so I'm using the term laundry instead. To most of the Math boys my British accent is a source of amusement, especially the word "water bottle". I am usually greeted daily with "Hello Governor" or "Hello Old Chap" by my friends in their fake British accents. Then I take my turn and use my American accent, which is perfect (thanks to my American Daddy) and I freak them out. I can switch between accents for each word I use in a sentence and everyone's fascinated by it!
Anyway. So I did my laundry. Only problem with doing laundry is that the washing machines are in Russian. No problem I hear you say. Yes well they're not like ones in the UK/US with dials and pictures so you kind of know what's going on. There's just a bunch of Cyrillic and buttons. Including the option of choosing how many spins per minute. Some of the Cyrillic is baffling but I can't bring myself to take my dictionary down to the laundry room just to work out which cycle to use! I've so far used the синтетика wash (Synthetics) which lasts for 72 minutes or 2 hours and you can choose between 30, 40 or 60 degrees. You get given a lot of choices with these washes so it's rather amusing watching the boys trying to figure them out & decide which wash to use. Once again I have to mother them and sort it all out for them!
I timed 72 minutes on my ipod and returned to collect my laundry, only to find that there was still 20 minutes left on the machine! I thought surely not, returned in another 20 minutes and there was still 5 minutes to go! Something must have been wrong with the timer on my machine - typical that I should choose the broken one! I sat and watched it for the last "5" minutes, which actually took 15 minutes. They do say a watched kettle never boils, and thus I experienced this. But I got my washing eventually and it smelt delightful. The Russians have Tide out here which is my favorite smelling washing powder so I'm very happy.
Only problem is a communal drying room on my floor, which also doubles as a bathroom with many sinks. There is no dryer. It's so nice to be able to hang all my clean underwear out on the drying racks for everyone (boys & girls - this is a co-ed dorm) to see. Thank goodness I brought all my nice underwear and not my usual granny pants!! Else that could have been super embarrassing! Nothing like a drying rack of Victoria's Secret underwear to improve my street cred.
I'm looking forward to snuggling under my clean sheets in the next few minutes, whilst I can't actually smell anything courtesy of my snuffles, I'm sure the sensation of clean sheets will be enough!
oh & p.s. It's my Mother's birthday today - the 23rd AND my dog Busters too. So if you know my Mom make sure to wish her a Happy Birthday! :)
