One aspect of my life I definitely took for granted back home was having a washer and a dryer. Sometimes on the race we will have access to them, but at the orphanage we are hand washing everything.
At first I thought how hard and time consuming could this be? It’s not so much difficult as extremely time consuming. The first day I washed my clothes outside at the washing station with some teammates and lost my momentum pretty quickly. Needless to say, I paid the price for not taking my time and being diligent with the scrubbing because I smelt a little funky the next day. 
New strategy! I learned that that if you soak your clothes in soapy water before you begin scrubbing and rubbing a different soap on them, your clothes won’t smell as weird. I also decided not to wash my clothes outside with what I’m pretty sure is lake water coming out of the faucet. I moved my domestic task inside to the girls’ kitchen that we never use because we eat all our meals in a different building.
So here is the process
1.. Soak all clothes in a tub of soapy water. (I did this for four hours because I was paranoid and was gone for part of the day.)
2. 2 .Rub the soap stick on every inch of your clothes.
3. .
3. Use a scrub brush on all parts of your clothes.
3. Use a scrub brush on all parts of your clothes.
4. 4.Turn inside out and repeat steps 2 and 3
5. 5. Rinse out soap
6. 6. Squeeze dry
Sounds simple but literally took me 3 hours to do steps 2-7
Silver lining of hand washing: good arm work out and time for bonding.
