Vespas :)

Fridays here are usually half-day's, not just because of the Adventist system but the Thai weekend starts Friday. This doesn't exactly mean I have time "off" because when you're on the film crew weekends are required and your free time is completely changing. I happened to get off a few hours though and ran back to the apartment, threw my wash into one of the three machines I saw and ran back up the stairs (6 floors, yes...i am the stair-master) and cleaned our room. It looked like the room hadn't been cleaned since the 80's but in reality it had only been a week since Goi scrubbed the floors. It kind of felt like I was punishing myself scrubbing the bathroom floors with a toilet wand but apparently thats the norm around here, haha. When I finished the room I ran back to get my wash and the adventure began:
The washmachine I had chosen was apparently designed for the smallest load size, hence the cheaper price. Woops! My load was definitely over that after 2 weeks of intense sweating in 70% humidity. Sooooo it finished the spin cycle, then started filling up with water again, then pouring out the top! The lady that lives in the bottom of the apartment came out yelling something, then appeared to dial 911 on a telephone and gesturing at me. She runs back and unplugs the washer then this Thai girl (the person she'd been calling) comes out and starts translating...apparently my load was too big, the lady gave me a bucket for my sopping wet laundry and told me to come back tomorrow to try again in the bigger washer if I wanted. I felt awful but she was apologizing to me the whole time. I got my laundry back upstairs *way heavier than before* and managed to hang it up on the mini-porch thing we've got out our window. I have no hangers yet because we have to go to a market to get some, so its all just massed on the bars of the window...probably be dry by next Thursday if theres no rain :/
I managed to make it back to do powerpoints for vespers tonight at the church the Evangelism meetings have been taking place at, of course our one clicker belongs to the conference president who needed it this weekend, so I'm clicking every slide from the back on my computer. Woohoo! *obvious sarcasm* The church here is SO sweet though, everyone wanted to talk when it was over and I even remember lots of names from this last week. It was great too because I got to see these teenagers taking photos in front of the backdrop I made "myspace style", made me feel kinda cool, hahaha. Sometimes its good to step back and see how what we're doing actually effects people.