Who would think that buckets can be so helpful? Let’s see… they are good for keeping lists (sorry, I watched Bucket List on the flight to Abuja… good movie by the way). And during my stay in Nigeria they are good for showers!
Our room has virtually no water pressure so even if we have NEPA (electricity) to heat the hot water, we only get a trickle… I mean trickle! I can spit more water than the amount of hot water that comes from our shower! (By the way, I hear other showers flowing with plenty of water… I think it is just our room. Go figure. I always get on the “short line” which takes forever to check out, too.)
The solution… bucket shower!!! Maybe two gallons of water but it is delightful. When we don’t have NEPA (which is basically all the time, yesterday we had NEPA maybe a grand total of 15 minutes), we heat water on the stove and then I use a smaller bowl to pour the water over my head and body… this beats the cold shower on Sunday anyway.
Truly the shower was delightful, warm and I am clean from head to toe; I even have water left over after I am finished! I liked it so much I took a second shower after a hot afternoon of teaching.
Buckets… they are amazingly useful.
One suggestion don’t keep your list in the same bucket you use to shower!
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