After a long day watching circumcisions, we were really excited about a day off. We slept in really late, watched Modern Family and Fringe on the iPad, took extra-long luxurious bucket baths, and generally relaxed hard.
One annoyance that interrupted our otherwise perfect day was a small problem with our host mom. Our house has no running water, but there's a public water source nearby that she and her adult children pay to fill these big water jugs (called "Jerry-cans"), so that we have water to cook, bathe, and wash our clothes with. Except that this week, the water has almost never been there when we need it. It's been a minor problem, it always showed up eventually, but apparently the roommates collectively had heard that she had no money to fill the cans with. The water costs 100 shillings per jerry can (that's about 4 cents), so I'd given her the 16 cents she required to fill our 4 jerry cans, but this prompted the roommates to call Michael, who should be giving her the money... anyway, long story short, he came over and talked with Jessica and us and it was super awkward and now, on Monday, things are still a bit awkward between our host mom and us. Ah well.
But otherwise, we did nothing. Awesome.
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