G'day everyone, because today was pretty same same and we don't want you to get bored, we have decided to give you random other bits about our stay which we don't usually bother to include.
1. Showering -
Our bathroom is about the size of pantry. There is only one tap ( cold only) and you have to postions your self pretty much ontop of the toliet to get the best water flow. We do have a sink but it is not connected to any plumbing, so combined with toliet and sink the floor is always wet.. and dirty because of our feet. So a typical showering experience begins with one of us closing our eyes while the other gets nacked in the main part of the room ( because a] its to small in to get changed in the bathroom and b] our clothes would get wet) So then we jump into the bathroom shout ''OK'' and turn on the water - spend 15 seconds getting wet all over. turn off shower, then we put shampoo in our hair, then condioner, then we soap up and body wash all at the same time. Then anothe 20 seconds under the cold water to wash off. Then face wash on, then 5 seconds under water to wash off. Then we have to shout "Close your eyes!" before we jump out so we can grab our towel and get dressed. It takes less than 10 minutes for us both to shower in the morning. Go Us for saving our 6 buckets of water a day! We also shower before we go to dinner, these showers take even less time because we don't wash our hair... but they are ridiculously necessary considering how hot and sweaty we get during the day, especially when we are teaching in the classrooms, that have one or two small fans for cooling.
2. Access to numerous amounts of clean clothes-
we have been particularly aware of this in the last couple of days and have learnt a very important lesson. never give all your dirty clothes to be washed, leaving you with only one set of clothes, and expect them to get back to you within the day. we made this very silly mistake yesterady morning, after our showers when we came down for breakfast, we handed in a pile of dirty washing, which had built up pretty quickly considreing its necessary to wear between 2 and 3 shirts a day here. we were in our last clean tshirts, and had even included our pjs in the washing. hoping to get it back that night, we were a bit disappointed that it wasn't there after we got back from dinner, forced to sleep in our same tshirts, we figured it would be back in the morning before we had to go to the orphanage. unfortunately, we hoped wrong, and we were stuck in our same clothes, after a day and a night in them, to wear to the orphanage for the second day. when we got home this afternoon and they handed us our washing, they looked at us strangely as we jumped for joy and the idea of a clean tshirt and underwear! we were both happy to be in clean clohes after our showers tonight :)
3.tuk tuk man-
we have a tuk tuk driver, who has a cute little beer belly. we don't know his actual name, so he will be forever known as tuk tuk man. he takes us to the orphanage every day and is there to pick us up when we finish. he often takes us wherever we want to go for dinner at night as well, and will be there whenever we want him to pick us up, or depending on the distance home, he will just ahve a snooze in his tuk tuk on the street, or talk to a random friend, which he seems to have everywhere. we have made up many songs about our tuk tuk man, particularly last night, when we were waiting for him to come and get us from the restaurant we were at, waiting on the street and then we saw him drive straight past us, but seemed to miss us completely. we figured he was going to turn around at the end of teh street, but then he disappeared and it was a good 5 to 10 minutes before he miraculously reappeared, it ended up he'd gone to visit yet another friend around the corner :)
4. the journey to our room
to get to our bedroom, we have to go up 6 flights of stairs, which we are slowly becoming accustomed to, but we always underestimate how many more fligthts we have to go. when we get to our floor, we then have to undo a combination padlock on our door, and hopefully we've remebered to pick up our key from reception so that we can then get inside. this is the biggest problem if we are downstairs at the restaurant or on the internet because we have to go through this whole process jsust to go to the loo!
we can't think of any other blaringly obvious differences between here and home right now, so we'll leave it there for tonight.
hope you enjoy
lots of love, steph and elise
xxx
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