Day two at home. I am starting to feel a bit better but thought I would take my down time to try and explain how life around the apartment has been. Chores are completely different and have made me feel pretty pathetic when I used to complain about doing laundry back home.
I have been trying to do laundry, at the max, once a week. Our washing machine takes about an hour to wash a load but, like I found out the first time I did laundry, it’s imperative to use softener; If you skip on this, you’ll end up with super stiff shirts and socks. I have yet to see a piso with a dryer. All of my clothes dry on the line outside our window in our laundry room (more like a laundry corner). We had some rain about a week and a half ago which forced me to put together some very interesting outfits because I was lacking most of my jeans that were doing anything but drying on the line.
Grocery shopping is a cultural experience. At home I despise grocery shopping. Wal-mart overwhelms me and I almost always come out spending twice as much as I had planned to spend. Here in Madrid I don’t have the option to buy unneccassry things because I don’t have a car to put my purchases in – instead I wheel my grocery bag (pictured below) from my apartment to the supermercado, lock it in place at the front of the store with a refundable euro, and I fill my cart up.
There are two supermercados close to my piso, a smaller one across the street and a larger, two-story store, a few blocks away. I went to the latter about a week ago with my roommate. If you’re wondering how you push a cart up and down a two-story store, check it out:
Un beso, Rachel
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