Living Conditions

Thought you might like to know about our living conditions. The 10 of us are living in two 12X12 huts. Kind of like on Gilligan's Island only not quite as luxurious. The five guys are in one hut. The five women in the other. I thought married couples would have our own huts. Big swing and a miss there. 

The group rest rooms are 20 yards away for the men and 30 yards away for the women. Three shower stalls and several toilets. There is rarely any hot water. Yesterday day I awoke at 3am, pretty common for all us guys, and jumped in an early shower and had hot water. I guess there is only about five minutes so hot water because I told my team mates to hurry and shores because there was hot water. Apparently I had used it all because they all had cold showers. 

Yesterday's hot shower was a true luxury. This morning there was not water at all! Nope, that's not a typo. Turned on the faucets and got nothing but a gurgling noise.  Thank got for the shower in a towel body wipes Ranie packed.  We're starting our third day in Malawi and currently in the middle of of our 5th blackout. 

I promised daily blog updates. Kind of hard to do with no internet access. We bought wi-fi cards yesterday hoping with would be able to contact home.  Another swing and a miss. The power outages have apparently knocked out the wi-fi routers as well. Cell phones don't work either. Still can't figure that out. 

Oh well. As my brilliant daughter Alie once said, "It's all part of the adventure."