Water

This morning I woke up to go on a run. Before going, I realized that we had no water. The idea of running and sweating like a pig and not being able to shower was not too appealing so I decided against running. It was a good decision! I went out and checked on the two big water holders that we have - they were empty. I asked Grandma next door - they also don't have water. She informed me that a pipe burst in Xangkhou Village 3 days ago so no one has water. They will fix the pipe on Monday.

In our bathroom we have a big 30 (or maybe 20 or maybe 50) gallon tub that we usually keep filled with water in case something like this should happen. We never have problems with water, so it had 6 inches of water in the bottom. :(

We drink water from the big blue 5 gallon jugs. The water guys come on Tueday and Friday. On Friday we set all 6 of our empty jugs outside to be changed with 6 full jugs of water. They didn't come on Friday. They will come this afternoon. Or so they say.

This morning the 4 of us (my 3 roommates and I) went to my roommate's fiend's apartment thing to shower. It takes a long time to wash my hair with the bucket shower and the water is cold and I just don't like doing it, so we went to a beauty shop to have our hair washed. So after showering, we went to have our hair washed. It was wonderful! One dollar to have my hair washed 3 times and have my head and neck massaged for 30 minutes.

Maybe for once in Laos something will happen before they say it will. It would be wonderful to have water before Monday. And wonderful if our drinking water people would come this afternoon. Maybe?