Wash It Away

Monday, the fun started. I got to work in the Laundry department. And yes, that is as bad as it sounds. First thing about the laundry is that days seems to go slowest there. There's not always something to do, as washes take about 40 minutes, and so do drying cycles. As there are only two washers and two dryers, and all the work before, in between or after takes 5, maybe 10 minutes (if it's dry and you need to fold it) maximum, you'd hope for something in between. Not quite. There's a little rush when people start their shifts and need to pick up their uniforms. Also, when the housekeepers start working, they need to pick up some washcloths to place in the rooms, as those are not provided in the cupboards on each floor. That's about the busiest time.
In between, housemen come in to take new towels to restock the floors. Also, every so often, we get to sort out all the dirty linen into categories and wash the towels ourselves. Other than that I pass the time with doing nothing, fooling around with my iPhone sometimes, and trying to interact with people coming to pick up one thing or another. Sometimes there's the need for pressed uniforms, and you get to operate that machine. Which basically looks like this;
I know. Monday evening I made the pita chicken bread with Bart, as expected, and we had a nice evening off again, doing nothing much.
Tuesday in the laundry, things seemed to go a bit quicker, but still, by far, the hours don't pass as easy as they do otherwise. I learned my way around with all the machinery and the places of everything in the office, and got myself acquainted with the uniforms and such, and had been handing those out and taking those in most of the day. That evening, as it was Yatha's day off, we had Sabrina and Marten over again and we spent time out on the patio, drinking, talking and making fun of people who weren't present. Looked some things up about HDR Pictures and put a few on my phone as wallpapers.

Today, wednesday, was another day of laundry, and it seems like I'll be here the coming 4/5 weeks before I get to train Bart to do his turn over there. As far as I know, the F&B plan is off (at least for now). Was there with Charlotte, who has been training me for the past few days, and we spent 4,5 hours making up the stock levels for ALL available clothing inventory in the fourth floor storage. At least we got that all right now, and I don't have to do it again. Tomorrow there will be new housekeepers from the Philipines and I get to give them proper clothing, just like today. Only tomorrow I will do it alone, as Charlotte is going to New York for a few days. I want to go there too later this year. Really looking forward to things like that!

In other news, I also bought myself a proper bike today. They don't really have city bikes like I'm used to, but either mountainbikes or beach cruises (which, fortunately, I'm used to as well since I had one back home). I'll add some pictures of it to this post to share my new vehicle! (The white one is Yatha's and I got the lovely black thing.)

Got the entire weekend off, friday, saturday and sunday, but things will be easy. Might take a little swim in the pool we have here. Go for a run, cycle around town and play some ball in the across-the-street-fields of Victoria Park. Saving some money for other things that might come later, such as New York.

As a little ode to the laundry, I looked for songs with "wash" in their title and found a pretty nice cover of Black Lab's "Wash It Away" on YouTube.