Keeping it clean

We have a cleaning lady at the posada who is absolutely marvellous. Not because she loathes cleaning, but that she manages to keep her full time job without executing it. She has only been in our room once in two weeks, and that was merely because we almost forced her into it. However, the job she made then was so feeble (changing sheets and towels only), that we quickly realized there is no point in putting pressure on her. She has probably leant that if you dont clean the rooms for some days, the guests will inevitably do it themselves. Now we have bought our own broom, and Emily borrows the cleaning ladys untensils, when we need it. She is happy to lend us the stuff, and has somewhat excused herself by explaining that she has a bad back, that refrains from doing her job. Only in Latin America, friends, only in Latin America.