Well, I have been here in Ghana since June 23rd. Everyday, okay, twice daily I have been taking showers. Here... because it is so hot and you get dirty walking everywhere... you got to "bath" at least 2x's a day. The showers are not like at home. It is a step up from my last visit to Ghana. During 2007 they were rationing the water, and at times it wouldn't run for days, so you get water from buckets. Yes, a bucket bath/shower. It was real fun.
Now... I have an actual shower, no curtain, just the tub and a shower head. It's progress.... anyways, the best part about the whole thing is the showers are cold. Cold water, as in NO HEATER!!! So.... no warm water. All of you who are taking showers every morning, please think of me when your standing under the shower head and steam is filling the bathroom as the water is so warm it is making you doze off back to sleep!!! haha. Now, turn the faucet all the way to cold, and take the same shower. Bet you can't do it!!! :) Just do it 1 time, and then think how fortunate we are to have hot water in our showers.
I am challenging all of you who read this blog to please, in honor of me ... take a cold shower. It wasn't easy I admit at first. You shiver, you want to jump away from the water, hurry and finish... but after awhile it is actually quite refreshing. Just try it.... now before it gets too cold!!
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Okay... I have to put on my scientist hat for a second and say this:
ReplyDeleteI don't think that us taking a cold shower (Indiana is supposed to get down to 37 F tonight) because it is hot there and a cold shower might be refreshing! In other words, a cold shower there isn't as bad as it would be here. Plus I am cheap/poor and I have not turned on my heat yet... haha. I will take you up on your offer in the summer... Sorry Swi!
Steph I will take you up on that offer when it is 90 degrees in the summer...it is like a "raincheck"..do you get it!!!
ReplyDeleteLove, MOM