Rubi Moving In and a Cleaning Spree

Saturday, September 18^th, I woke up early to help Rubi move from her host family to the apartment! (She finally got a project and a permanent place to stay! Now she’s at Pro Niños with us.) Anyway, so I went over to Rubi’s host family’s apartment and helped her finish packing. She already had all her stuff in vacuum seal bags, but she still needed to suck the air out of them and try to get them all to fit in her suitcase. So we did that. We ended up not fitting everything in her suitcase and backpack and other small bag. So we shoved stuff in our purses and in a plastic bag. Then we took a cab to the apartment (we decided trying to take a bag we could barely lift on the metro was a bad idea). When we got to the apartment, we rang the doorbell (even though I had keys) in hopes that someone strong would carry up the suitcase. Thanks Matthias!

Me and Rubi had planned on doing a massive cleaning after we brought her stuff to the apartment and Mona and Angelica agreed. When we got back, they had already almost finished cleaning the bathroom. I was really happy because it was gross and I didn’t want to be the one to clean it. 

Me and Rubi (with some help from Mona) cleaned the kitchen and the part of the living room that had food stuff. This involved sweeping, mopping, doing all the dishes (we had no idea what was clean) and organizing (which also involved moving some shelves that were in the living room into the kitchen). I think the hardest part was trying to move the washing machine out of the kitchen (it’s still not hooked up! Gaah. They need to move it upstairs to the roof first so the girls in the apartment above us can use it too). 

We finished cleaning the dishes then went to the vegetarian restaurant we had seen near Zócalo to celebrate Rubi having a project. It was awesome, but I’ll write about that in a separate post. 

We came back to the apartment and found some more dishes we’d missed so we washed them. Then we started to organize the massive pile of stuff in the apartment we have but don’t want (extra dishes, containers, pans, etc. There is seriously an excessive amount of some things). This took a while (we actually did most of it the next day), but in the process, we found some useful things, like things to use for garbage cans and something to put the silverware in (the kind of thing that goes in a drawer and has different slots. I have no idea if it has a name in English. I’m sure it does). We also found clean sheets! Which means I put them on my bed and slept on sheets instead of my sleeping bag for the first time since before the on-arrival camp.