On doing laundry

There are many things in China that aren't like home. For example: chicken. When you order chicken you get chicken bone. You stick the chicken bone in your mouth and pick off what little meat may be on the bone. Then you spit the bone on to the table. You know that General Tsao's chicken you ordered at the Chinese restaurant? Or Kung Pao? Or Sweet and Sour? Ya, they don't have that here. And I have yet to see a fortune cookie for that matter.
That brings me to laundry. After a month of hand washing my clothes in the hotel sink, I jumped with joy and kissed the washing machine in my apartment. I immediately threw in a load. The school had recently done some remodeling and what once was a bathtub, is now just tile flooring. Which would be fine but they didn't really think it through too much, and there is no slope on my floor. Therefore, when I take a shower, the water just puddles in my bathroom because there is no slope for the water to find the drain. This presented a problem as my washing machine drains onto the bathroom floor. I flooded my bathroom a few times before I figured out a good system. Here is my laundry ritual:

1. Put clothes in, put on ECONOMY setting, and let it do its thing.
2. When machine makes that clicking noise run from wherever in the apartment and hold the hose into the bucket. Fill up bucket to almost full and let go of the tube to let rest of the water drain onto the floor. Hurry over to other side of bathroom and use cutting board to block water from puddling into places not reachable by mop.
3. While rinse cycle begins, carefully carry full bucket into kitchen for dumping. Inevitably slosh soapy water onto legs and feet and kitchen floor (which, ironically, has a drain).
4. Bring back bucket, wait for rinse cycle to drain. Repeat step 2 and 3 (the running, the filling, the emptying, the spilling).
5. After dumping second bucket, return to bathroom and rinse bucket out. Then put clean clothes into bucket and bring to bedroom. Hang all wet clothes on hangers.
6. Get long pole and place clothes on the outside balcony pole to dry.
7. Return to bathroom with bucket. Get mop and soak up the puddle which is the bathroom floor. Dump bucket in kitchen one more time.
8. Declare the laundry complete!

And the most amazing part: I can do all of that in less than one hour. :)