Friday, February 17, 2006

Out of water

Well, isn't this quite a reminder of life in Cameroon! Here we are with no water coming from our taps, we're not flushing the toilet unless we really have to, and we're dipping from a bucket for essential washing. Yes, this is Canada, and yes, these things still happen. We're thankful for kids who know exactly what to do in this kind of situation!

Actually, we're very fortunate, because our missionary landlords had kindly alerted us to the possibility, and we DO have some washing water and drinking water stored up.

Ok, back to the Cameroon scenario. In Bekondo, if this happened, we might be out of water for 2-3 days or longer, depending on whether the "water fix-it guy" decided to push his low-salary agenda by going on strike or not. And eventually he and some other young guys would head out to the "bush", after coming to borrow tools, "rubbers" (to tie the pipe together again), etc. In the meantime, either we could catch rainwater from our roof, or we could get some of the village kids to carry water for us (or our house-help or yard worker would get it for us - they usually took good care of us!).

But here... you're talking -16 degrees Celcius (plus wind chill) and snow on the ground - yes, we're actually getting winter weather for a change! And there are men working on the pipes right now, and they will probably continue to work until it's fixed. So we only have the inconvenience of maybe 6-12 hours (it started around supper time). We're spoiled!

But it still makes us anticipate heaven, when we'll be with the Living Water, and never have to thirst or wash again!!!

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