The past few days (weeks?) we’ve been having electricity issues…goes off, comes on, goes off…you get the picture, just not consistent. What’s frustrating about that, aside from all the obvious reasons, is our shower. It’s an electric shower head (scary I know with 220 volt wires coming into the water area) so no electricity, no shower.
I would wake up telling myself to take a shower while the electricity was on, but would get busy and before I knew it the electricity would be off. I think I went a couple of days without a warm shower, yup it was cold showers for a few days! This morning however was a bit different. I emailed a friend and before signing off I told her I needed to go and take a shower before the electricity went off (only being half serious because we’ve had electricity for the past 24 hours!) I was able to take a shower…however, and it seems there is always an “however” here in Kenya, our shower head isn’t working properly. You either get scalding hot water or you get cold, but if I jump in the shower as soon as I turn on the water I can usually wash up before it gets to the point where I’m getting burned. Believe me, it’s a process taking a shower here now!
Ok, so I got my shower taken and we still had electricity-yeah! I was going to the Academy to do a few things and since the strength of the internet is much better over there I thought I’d get some googling done. James, Gideon and Pauline’s son, drove me to the Academy, I hooked up my computer, booted it up and then….the electricity went out. It wasn’t just Nice View either, it was the entire village of Tala. Basically I put my computer back away and came home.
I’ve read, painted a bit, went over a page of learning Kiswahili, used up just about all my iPod battery and then decided to boot up the computer once again and use up the precious computer battery, praying electricity would come back on later this evening, to get out a blog post. Plus, as a side note, our generator is broken and with the repairman 🙁
It’s nothing too exciting just part of life here in Kenya.