Doing laundry

Chatting with my mom the other day made me realize I have yet to share the joy that is doing laundry chez moi. Let me indulge you.

First of all, my washing machine (if you can even call it that...see object to the right of my toilet) is a very tiny plastic box, with two compartments. You first put your clothes into the space on the left, along with the amount of water you see fit, and detergent. You then spin a dial to select the amount of time, the maximum being fifteen minutes. (I have never actually run it multiple times through for a load of laundry.) The next bit, the extra fun bit, involves wringing out all of my clothes, and putting them into the second compartment for the spin cycle. Here's the catch: it fits about four articles of clothing at a time, and runs for a maximum of five minutes per dial rotation. Then, when that's all done, I hang my laundry to dry on a drying rack, that takes up my entire living space, so that the next twenty-four hours of drying time involve me crawling and ducking to get to my wardrobe, fridge, and bed. Exciting, no? I miss the days when I could pop a load of laundry in and actually leave and use the time a little more productively. Laundromat, anyone?

Something else I never really think about - I eat with chopsticks every day. I really love it.

I saw The Social Network last evening with Christian (friend from McGill living here) and his girlfriend. Excellent film. We saw it at a mall called Times Square, located eight metro stops away from me, towards Seoul. This mall is amazing and beautiful and I will definitely be returning. Good place to be when the weather gets cooler! The movie theatre has the largest screen in the world (we didn't see our movie on it though). Fun fact!