{"id":20315,"date":"2021-10-08T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=20315"},"modified":"2021-10-13T10:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T14:09:03","slug":"cultural-confrontation-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2021\/10\/08\/cultural-confrontation-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Confrontation: Portugal!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can\u2019t lie, I have experienced multiple instances of cultural frustration I could write about: being a vegetarian in the Iberian peninsula; how difficult it is to get water at a restaurant, and also the lack of ice; the lack of spices to cook with in the grocery stores\u2026 But for this instance, I would like to focus on the cultural confrontation of doing laundry in a foreign country. It might sound silly, but since I\u2019m into sustainability the clothes I own are important to me! I want to keep them nice so they will last a long time. Any who- most of my 8 roommates go to a laundromat instead of using our home unit because it\u2019s a <em>really<\/em> small washer and there\u2019s no dryer, which is the real kicker here. The first time I did laundry I was an unhappy camper, but I see the beauty of this style of laundry now. I did two loads, which I usually never do, so it forced me to separate my clothing and be more cautious about what I was putting in the load together. It has also made me more sustainable, because I am now hang-drying all of my clothes! Hang-drying my clothes is actually a practice I do at home but only with certain items, so I think I will expand on what I hang dry to use less energy! The only downside is sometimes my clothes are crunchy and not as soft after hang-drying but I do appreciate using less energy so I don\u2019t mind too much.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t lie, I have experienced multiple instances of cultural frustration I could write about: being a vegetarian in the Iberian peninsula; how difficult it is to get water at a restaurant, and also the lack of ice; the lack of spices to cook with in the grocery stores\u2026 But for this instance, I would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-20315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sit","tag-rollinsabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20316,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315\/revisions\/20316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}