My Shower Experience.

Okay first of all I want to tell you that the showers here are very different from the ones in the States. These showers have only one temperature and that is cold but there’s this little machine thing that you can buy and install to make it hot/warm water. On this machine you can have (you’ll see in the pictures below, from left to right) hot, cold, and warm. Well I don’t like extremely hot water and I don’t particularly like freezing cold water so I keep it on the warm temperature. The higher the water pressure the colder the water gets, the lower the water is on, the hotter it is. Well one night I went to go take a shower and I got all my stuff together and turned the water on. When I went to go get in however, the water was scolding HOT, I am not kidding you! It burned. So I turned the water back off and switched it to the cold temperature. After that I turned the water back on and it was still scolding, about that same time “steam” starting coming out of the machine. I turned off the water as quick as I could but the “steam” really turned out to be smoke. I grabbed my towel and screamed for Rhonda who was in the kitchen. She came and saw the “steam” which was really smoke because at that time it had started smelling bad. The little white hose on the machine popped off and sprayed more smoke everywhere. I felt SO bad. Rhonda called Jorge, who said to not mess with it and that he would call someone out to look at it. I ended up shower in Rhonda’s shower, luckily I didn’t break hers. I was praying the whole time. Lol Later that night Jorge came and took a look at the shower. It turns out that the shower needed to be cleaned. The pressure in it caused it to do what it did. Now I take cold showers, like a real Honduran, every time, which I enjoy after my laps around the basketball court. I just have to tell myself that, it’s the way Hondurans shower all the time. And a part of being a missionary for me is accepting and doing what the culture here does. If that’s take a freezing cold shower, then I’ll do it. And I take cold showers because I scared to break the machine again. I do think we agreed that we’re going to buy a new one, which I so happened to offer to pay. Really the machine doesn’t cost a lot in American dollars.