Kelsey: Washing clothes

Yesterday after class Mama taught Erin and I how to do laundry. They do all their laundry by hand in buckets and scrub with their hands. It wasn’t that hard for the first few pieces of clothing that we washed but I can’t imagine doing it for hours. Everything is just then hung on clothes lines and sometimes ironed. They iron in case any bugs or mosquitoes have nested in the clothes. 

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