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2009-11-20 HAI THAR KIDS! Yes, did we all notice the exciting banner at the top? I'm trying something different again, lets hope it lasts for more than 2 entries. Now, my dwindling audience, basically FUZZ THE LONDON STUDENT will chronicle totally mundane and unexciting aspects of overseas student life, to give you guys something to read while you're facebooking during lectures, or maybe, perhaps, some of you even, might find it interesting. SO! We kick it off with an exciting insight into... LAUNDRY. Admittedly my school is not nearly as intense as a lot of you guys, from what I hear anyway. I have school hours, I have essays and tutorials and readings, but somehow it all seems... less than what a lot of you are doing. YET, I don't feel that I have a lot more time. Minusing away all the slacking, which I would do back in sg or in london or in alaska, I don't have a lot of random time to read or sit in parks and all those exciting waste time activities. And I blame. LAUNDRY Not JUST laundry in particular, but like, householdy things. It's true you do take it for granted at home. SERIOUSLY. I do laundry about once a week and it's basically... -Haul laundry basket downstairs. I don't even IRON them cause I don't really have anything that needs ironing. It sounds easy, and it is, but it takes up so much random TIME. Like the 40 minutes? You can't leave your clothes down there for too long over the washing time, because if someone comes and wants to use the washer, they'll just take your stuff out and dump it on the machines. Which are not all that clean. Folding is boring and takes time, and I don't have a lot of space to do it, and sometimes you lose clothes. Not like, lose LOSE, but like little things like socks get caught in T shirts and stay hidden there. I was missing a sock and my poor sock had to be an incomplete pair until I found it's other half: inside the pillow case I also washed. Another time I was missing yet another sock, and I found it when I wore a T-shirt. The good part was I didn't NOTICE until quite a bit later(and I was out already!) that I had a sock up my shirt. Fun stuff. Also, I've found that dryers produce A LOT of static. My clothes CRACKLE when I pull them apart to fold. It's... weird. And you have to change your BEDSHEETS. Honestly I could have gone ages without changing them, cause I make itv a point to only lie on my bed when CLEAN, and not eat on it, etc etc etc. Plus you never sweat here. Ever. So the bed IS pretty much very clean for quite long, but I've got friends who change their sheets like, freaking once a week or every 2 weeks, which is A LOT to me, so I caved and changed my sheets. See boys and girls, I too, am influenced by social pressures. Laundry is also more expensive than I would have liked. Washer and dryer it's around 2.50 pounds-ish, depending how long I want to dry my stuff. That's like, $5 sing! FIVE DOLLARS. It was like free at home!!! (Ok it wasn't but it FELT like it was!) Another thing about laundry, is that unlike back home, you HAVE to plan to do it. You can't put it off for too long. Case in point, today I had to wear my white pants. While it was raining. Which is quite a bad idea. But all my other pants where in the laundry basket. SO. So guys, appreciate your mothers and maids and whatnots, because hall laundry is a little bugger. It's nothing too horrible, but it definitely makes you feel more responsible for yourself: if you don't do your laundry, you might have to wear werid shit out. THERE WE GO, our very mundane and unexciting blog entry of the day, LAUNDRY.
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