Warm shower!

Posted by Ali

I had a warm shower today! For the first time in nearly six week I could actually stand fully under the shower head and linger longer than I really needed to. It was wonderful. At one point the water was actually almost hot and it felt amazing. On Wednesday and Thursday, and maybe Friday as well, an electrician had come to campus to work on my shower and try to get the hot water working like it should be. Apparently the showers were worked on before I got here and thought to be working right, but when I said mine was cold they brought a professional back in and put him back to work. After my shower I noticed that my feet were peeling a little bit so I did a feet-in-sink scrub on them and now they feel squeaky clean too. I should probably try to remember that I need to do a good foot-scrub more often. As I climbed into the car to go to church I told Max and Davona about my wonderful Sabbath surprise and Max said now that they know how to fix the problem, they'll work on all the other showers as well. So that will be great for any future visitors/volunteers who stay in the cottages.

Church was good, a woman speaker again who did a great job talking about the parable of the ten virgins and being ready for Jesus to come again. Max again asked me over for Sabbath lunch and we made rice and a tomato/squash topping and also had beans. One pot of rice Davona made had a bit of curry in it and it was delicious. I think I'm actually getting more open with trying foods I usually don't like. Well, I guess I do like curry, but usually it's too hot for me. But yesterday when Max asked me over for lunch I happily ate the baked tomato and spinach pizza (traditionally I have not been fond of tomatoes, for those of you who don't know me so well) and today I had no problem eating the rice topping. I think I mostly could eat the tomatoes because the texture and taste is so different baked or in a fried sauce than fresh. Anyway, I find it interesting.

In the afternoon Staci and Mariah played beauty parlour in my room and I got a mini makeover, haha.  Mostly they put lotion on my hands and covered my lips with lip gloss. Then, later on, Staci came back to my room and asked me if I wanted to go on a hike with her family. I agreed and it turned out that it was just Staci, Brendon and I, but we had a good hike through the jungle. Brendon brought along a machete just in case we met any slithering beasts who might have wanted to taste us, but we didn't and I was happy (I used the stamping-feet method of hiking so that might have helped keep the snakes away). In the evening I brought some leftovers over to the CoL apartment and ate supper with the girls there and then we looked at pictures of what some of the girls had done that afternoon (visiting in some not-too-far-away villages) and then we talked and ate cookies that Danielle made. It was a great end to the Sabbath.

PS - I somehow accidentally saved a blog post from last Wednesday instead of publishing it, so here it is if you'd like to read it. Sorry!