1. How to take a bucket bath: First fill the trough with water. Have your bathing supplies ready get a pan and fill it with water starting with your legs pour water on them then your chest arms and back. With a full pan of water pour it over your head moving your hair around to get it all wet. Get just enough shampoo to clean your hair in your hands and lather. With the pan slowly pour water over your head as you rinse the shampoo out. I stress the slowly because if you just pour you'll never get all the soap out. Repeat until hair is clean. If need be use conditioner and repeat process. Dunk your rag into the water and soap it up cleaning your body well you want all of that sweat and dust from the day off of you for at least 5 min. start from you top down and pour water over your body rinsing off. Grab a towel and from top to bottom dry off holding the towel in just the right way so that it never touches the dirty ground. get dressed in same fashion and continue with the day.
2. How to wash clothes without a washing machine: Make sure you have plenty of water or a hose near my. Get the pile of your dirty clothes and some bar soap to wash clothes. You can a. soak your clothes in a bleach mixture before hand or b. just wash them straight away. I do option b Nicaraguans do option a. take out one to two objects of clothes and once them are soaked rub soap on the front ,back, selves, legs etc of the clothes. then take part and begin to viciously rub it on a stone slab with grooves in it. (It can be made by the handyman nearest you. Found in all towns of Nicaragua.) Take other sections of the cloth and repeat process until front an back of clothing are clean. Begin to pour water on it while you squeeze your clothing with on hand moving it around and picking it up until the water coming from it is clean. wring it out and then shake it before putting it over the clothes line to dry.
3. How to put up a mosquito net: Take net out of back and find the four corner of the net. Lay it out to the best of you ability to find out which sides are the long side and which side it the short side. Tie a long piece of string, rope, cloth or what ever you have to each corner loop. Put up four nails, find for rafter, find for hooks what ever you can in the room that is on the far wall of the four corner of the bed. Lay the net over the bed it is not already and pull one of the ties to your nail and wrap it around before doing a loose knot but not puling the last sting all the way through this allows for a quick easy take down when needed. Repeat the process with the other corners. Then adjust the tightness of the stings until it is a comfortable height from the bed. Pull the sides around the bed and tuck in three of the sides leaving one side hanging over the edge to get you enter your bed.
4. How to use a latrine: Enter the latrine and pull the door shut firmly behind you. Put your lets on either side of the front of the hole with a cement seat and squat with your hips pointed towards the back of the seat. wipe and throw tissue into the hole. Close the door behind you so the animal won't get in. Wash hands in the pila.
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