Missive from parts of Africa

A light hearted and sometimes serious look at moving 6000km into a place in Africa: April 2007. Promoted back to South Africa, the missive will continue to track my foray's into deepest Africa as and when I get there.

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Location: Joburg, Africa, South Africa

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

How to shower when no water comes from your tap

Day 2 sans water, and here dear reader is a "How to shower"

Still no water so here we have the Ghana bugger I have no water coming out of my tap shower.

1. Ensure you have a 10 liter margarine container that comes from Holland
2. Get the gilly to go out and find water and fill up the container
3. Place container over the plug in the bath.
4. Kneel in the bath and stick your head in the container – (note it is wise to make sure your head is not bigger then the container)
5. Remove head from container and shampoo
6. Stick head back in container and rinse.
7. Stand in bath and pour ½ the container over your head to wet down body
8. Soap well
9. Pour the remainder of the container over the body to rinse
10. Remember to have the plug in the bath so that if all the soap does not come off you at least have some more water to rise the soap off properly.
11. If you are like me and forgot to put the plug in and still have soap in the lower regions, take the toilet bucket that gilly had filled up in case I wanted to flush and use some of that water to rinse off the remaining soap.

Shower complete **g**

1 Comments:

Blogger Esther said...

That's not a shower! That's a "poor man's wash". You left out the bit where you heat the water up. You do heat the water up right?
Ever tried rigging one of those bush showers? If this water thing on any longer you might have to.

7:47 PM  

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