living the life

it's funny how expectations of standards of living change depending on where you are. there are many everyday aspects of living in africa that i would have thought crazy in the us, but are fairly normal here. for instance...

- normally we have to flip a switch an hour before we want to shower to get hot water. but, that switch broke a few weeks ago. so since then, its been straight up cold showers. it's getting better though since the weather is warming up. the cold showers were a bit brutal when it was cold outside

- since we got here, we haven't had a light in our closet (which is its own seperate room). so we've been having to get dressed with headlamps on. we've decided the headlamp is a good accessory to an outfit. and then within the last couple weeks our bathroom light stopped working as well. so now we shower with headlamps too. doing makeup is also a tricky one with headlamps cause you get all sorts of crazy shadows ha

- the power likes to go out randomly for a few hours a couple times a week. luckily it's only been out for a couple hours each time, cause apparently it can be out for days. keep my fingers crossed that doesn't happen

- i've gotten used to the bugs in the house....they don't really phase me anymore

- we have no tv. this hasn't been so bad though. i actually haven't even noticed or missed it (which was surprising for me ha). we do watch movies though. we have a projector we use from work and project movies on one of the walls in our house. it's like our own personal cinema

- washing dishes by hand and no garbage disposal. again, i thought this was going to be super annoying, but it hasn't been bad. and were starting a compost to help with the trash and lack of garbage disposal. that is a project in the works as we speak