I'm in hot water now!
on Gabriel Robichaud (Burkina Faso), 24/Sep/2010 14:15, 34 days ago
Yes, I am! And I mean it in the literal sense! Since I moved into my Villa this past January, I have been starring longingly at my hot water tank. The bloody thing didn't work, and I couldn't figure out why. A few weeks ago, after a frustratingly cold shower (yet again), I did a little investigation... I pulled on the wires and noticed they weren't connected to the tank!In Burkina, you get things done by talking to someone, who knows someone, who can call someone that has a nephew or a cousin or some other distant relative, that knows an electrician. In this case, it wasHelen, another volunteer, from England, that hooked me up with one her peeps. Had I known she would be sending me the sexiest electrician I have ever seen, I would have asked her a long time ago! This guy was calendar material. Yummeh... anyhooo.Too make a long story short... Stéphane the electrician spent 3 hours in my house rewiring the breaker, the hot water tank, testing, replacing bits and pieces, and I HAVE HOT WATER.It's a little crazy just how freaking over the moon I am over this luxury. Hot water is definitely not something everyone has access too, unless you heat it over a fire pit that is. Ever since the rainy season has hit us, the temperature has been declining, and my now acclimatised body was having a hard time dealing with the freezing cold water that spit out of my shower every morning. In the wise words of George Costanza from Seinfeld: "Shrinkage!"So, as I sit here, comfortably, clean as a whistle and fresh out of my first hot shower in MONTHS, I am bubbling with joy. Seriously, I am ridiculously excited about this. I am infact so happy, I just sent a txt message to all my peeps in Bobo to share the news. HOT WATER! I AM IN HOT WATER! WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!