This is the way we mop the floor,
Mop the floor,
Mop the floor,
This is the way we mop the floor,
When we live in Brazil!
When I was taking these pictures, you should have seen the weird looks that I was getting from the Brazilian ladies (you can see the smile on the lady in the second picture; she REALLY thought I was nuts!) When the camp director's wife explained to them why I would take a picture of something so common (she understands because she is a Brazilian, but she's been to the States) they looked at her like she must be crazy! How on earth do American's get their floors clean, anyway?!
When a Brazilian washes her floors, she starts by dumping a large bucket of soapy water on it. Then she takes a broom and scrubs the suds around, brushing any "sticky" areas. Then comes a bucket of rinse water. Now, how is she going to get all of that water out of her house, you might ask? With a squeegee, of course! See the lady on the right in the bottom picture? She uses a large squeegee and pushes all the water outside where it will quickly evaporate in this heat.
You may be thinking, "that would ruin my house!" And you're right! But there are no carpets, drywall, or wooden floors here. The floors are tiled or concreted, and the walls are block or tile, so it really is a faster, easier way to clean the floors.
And now you know:
This is the way we mop the floors,
When we live in Brazil!
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very humbling when you think of it, we are so used to doing things our way that we don't even think about how others clean a floor in a different country, thank you for sharing Omar and Tracy
ReplyDeleteLove! Thank you for sharing all your experiences! It's always so interesting to read how other cultures do things:-)
ReplyDeleteessa é a minha tia
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