Well following tonights after dinner conversation, I decided this was an important issue to discuss- showering.
In Rwanda it is uncommon to have a shower with a curtain let alone a tub. What you have is a shower, another faucet around 4' up and this is just on the wall of the bathroom. There is also a drain and a bit of a linoleum area to stand that theoretically stops the water from getting everywhere- and like so many theories just fails.
Our compound has limited hot water. 3 rooms are hooked up, sometimes. (1 of those actually only has a tub.)And the other 4 are not. We are incredibly lucky and have hot water in the kitchen.
My room is not one with hot water. So at first I walked up to the spare room and used that shower. But then the preassure became nonexistent. I still used the faucet up there because my cold water preassure is also pretty poor. Then the hot water disappeared in everywhere but the kitchen.
So I started taking bucket baths. It felt like camping. I would boil water, fill up my bucket half way, carry it back and then add my faucet water to make it a good temperature and a good amount of water.
Kerry was doind the same thing for a while and then one night she realized the boiling step was unnecessary- there's hot water in the sink. So that became the preferred method of filling our buckets.
Well at dinner Jess announced her hot water had come back and with great preassure. So we discussed our preffered methods. I like the bucket- it's hot and I can get clean & warm. Kerry has good cold water preassure so she prefers to be clean and doesn't mind the cold. Jess has the hot shower.
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