J-I was taking a shower the other day when I had a
borderline epiphany. You see, our
current housing situation provides us with a cold shower. By cold, I mean imagine taking your garden
hose and hooking it up to a shower head.
That’s not a complaint; it’s just a good way of explaining the
temperature to someone who isn't experiencing it. I actually much prefer this to the bucket
showers that some of my fellow PCTs (Peace Corps Trainees) are having to take
every day. At least the cold shower gets
you clean, which is far harder to manage with a bucket shower. Anyhow, back to my musing.
When I was taking a shower the other evening, I broke into a
fit of mad laughter as I realized that I had been doing the hokey-pokey every
day for the last few weeks without realizing it. It start by turning on the tap. Then I put my head in, I take my head out, I
suds my head up, and rinse all the soap out.
I put my loofah in, take my loofah out, add some soap, and scrub the whole
day out. I put my left leg in, I take my
left leg out…you can imagine where this is going. I definitely do plenty of the “shake it all
about” as I shiver in the shower, though I have yet to manage the “you put your
whole self in” move as of this posting.
As I said, I know this sounds like complaining, but it
really isn't. I find it all very
amusing, and that’s why I bothered to write it down and share it. Maybe when we get to our final placement site
(no word on that for a few weeks yet), then I’ll get a stove and start warming
up water for whenever we want o bathe.
Until then, I’ll just be doing the hokey pokey, seeing as that’s what
it’s all about.
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