The Shower

So living in China often presents many difficulties while trying to be environmentally conscious. There's no phosphate free soaps, all of the prepackaged foods have like 4 layers of packaging, the tap water is undrinkable, so any short term students just buy bottles of water.  There's so many things every day that really bother me, but I have little communication skills, and so I mostly end up bottling up a lot of the words I want to say.

Brandi and I do our best to be conscious consumers. I reuse bags, I buy very little of the prepackaged foods, and we've bought a water filter. I try to every day make conscious choices about how much clothing I'm going to wear and how often I'm going to wash it. It's summertime here now though and it's usually around 40degrees, and training outside you sweat a lot and don't smell too pretty. So in the past I've been showering twice a day, once after morning practice, and once in the evening. I wasn't satisfied with this, so I've exchanged my morning shower with a 'French' bath. Which is really just me washing myself with a cloth in the sink I just try to make it feel fancy.

You know it's funny. We're all so obsessed with our hygiene at home, it probably seems normal to many people to be showering twice a day, but it's something that I can't imagine I'll pick up. If I can more or less roll around on the ground and sweat all day, and not really smell too bad, then I can't imagine, while living at home in my nice clean house, going to nice clean gym, and sitting in some nice fresh grass, that I would be all that dirty. Now I'm not saying I don't intend to bathe anymore, but I think if we all just let go of our ideas of what clean is, we could really do the earth a favour. I just read an article, that's got some old school ideas that we might want to consider reusing.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/15/why-modern-bathroom-wasteful-unhealthy-design?CMP=fb_gu