The Shower, well that is another experience, we have to light the open fire around 3pm, collect 2 x 20L jerry cans of water from the water bore and start heating the water for the shower. When the water is hot we use a basin and fill it with 3 or 4 bowls of boiling water and cool it down with some of the bore water then take the basin and hopefully remember everything you need for a shower and head to the largest wet area shower you have ever seen, actually sometime its late at night and you have to remember the latern also but it is quite an experience and adventure showering with a flannel and basin under the stars, (there is no roof) and for the first few days all the holes in the shower brick wall were filled with pieces of paper until Alex had the time and cement to fill them in so no little villagers could peek!
Washing your hair is impossible in the shower, you don’t have the clean water so at least once a week (for everyone except Zach who will probably end up with dreadlocks shortly as his hair is so long and curly and unwashed) we collect extra water and boil up enough to wash everyone’s hair in the middle of the day so it dries quickly.
Now I understand why the African people have very little hair. Some of the children, even the girls have their heads shaved regularly, not with a shaver either, their mothers use only the razor blade, cos that is the cheapest way!
I will never again complain about how useless the flushing of the toilet or how slow the water dribbles in the shower in the house at Mukono is! And as for a mirror, the piece of glass backed on a cardboard is far better than trying to use the rear vision mirror on the 4WD vehicle with 10 village kids and the neighbours watching. You can imagine how great it was to come back to Mukono and enjoy the slow flushing toilet, slow dribbling shower and piece of glass mirror hanging on the wall.
Washing your hair is impossible in the shower, you don’t have the clean water so at least once a week (for everyone except Zach who will probably end up with dreadlocks shortly as his hair is so long and curly and unwashed) we collect extra water and boil up enough to wash everyone’s hair in the middle of the day so it dries quickly.
Now I understand why the African people have very little hair. Some of the children, even the girls have their heads shaved regularly, not with a shaver either, their mothers use only the razor blade, cos that is the cheapest way!
I will never again complain about how useless the flushing of the toilet or how slow the water dribbles in the shower in the house at Mukono is! And as for a mirror, the piece of glass backed on a cardboard is far better than trying to use the rear vision mirror on the 4WD vehicle with 10 village kids and the neighbours watching. You can imagine how great it was to come back to Mukono and enjoy the slow flushing toilet, slow dribbling shower and piece of glass mirror hanging on the wall.