Cleanliness
A week before I left for Puerto Rico, AFS provided me with an orientation booklet. It included this little bit of advice:
"As we are a tropical country you will sweat a lot; this will require you shower every day. Use of: deodorant and antiperspirant every day, perfume every day and shaving under your arms and legs (only for girls) is not optional, you will need it. Changing your clothes and under wear every day, and not using the same set of clothes more than twice before washing it is necessary."
What I like about this is that you know someone complained that they had a stinky student. I always thought personal hygiene was just general knowledge when it came to tropical locations but I guess not. Puerto Rico was so hot and humid that I had to shower twice a day and changed clothes 3 or 4 times a day. I feel sorry for the families who got the students who were rebellious and thought, "I don't need to shower today, I don't smell."
2 comments:
do people living in puerto rico have to shower and change as often as people who are not originally from there?
can you imagine how bad an exchange student must have smelled for the host parents to complain?!?!? ugh!
My gym teacher in junior high school made a similar speech.
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