Our motto here in Kenya is “Nothing Is Ever Simple”! It is proven over and over again, no matter what seems to be happening. Here are a couple of examples:
Here’s a sewing machine we recently purchased for the children’s home. With this, simple clothes repairs can be done onsite rather than sending them out. Plus we are hoping a couple of the girls will show an interest in sewing when our guests come in August to give some simple lessons! You may notice there is no electrical cord! Yup, it’s all foot power. Plus when we purchased the machine (from someone we know) it didn’t have the thread holder on the top. We had to wait a few days before he brought the rest of the parts for the machine. Oh and the belt on the right is not actually a belt, it’s a piece of cloth….nothing is ever simple!
Here’s our main bathroom. We recently were getting shocked by the shower head…that’s the electrical in the white tube. At first Chuck thought I was crazy but he saw a very large spark when using the shower. When the electrician came he tested the water for voltage (which should have been zero) and it tested at 220 volts! Yikes, we were showering under 220 volts, but I guess God wasn’t ready for us to leave just yet. So when the electrician looked in the shower head he found the wiring was aluminum and had rusted (nothing is ever simple…we thought we purchased an original shower head but found out it was a fake). We bought another shower head (the electrician checked the inside of this one before buying) and when he went to put it up the pipe just turned in the wall. The wall had to be chipped out…I’m talking tile, cement and stone had to be chipped, no drywall here. They are now in the process of installing the shower head.
While I’m on the subject of bathrooms…this is the guest bath. We had a nice handle for the shower but while workers were working in the bathroom they continually turned the handle (don’t ask me why it just seems people can’t keep their hands off things they don’t need to be touching) and instead of gently turning the handle to off they twisted it and stripped the threads. Sorry guests you get an ugly handle now because that’s all we could find in the village. Nothing is ever simple!
