Shower Power

Showering in Kenya is quite the adventure.  They have a door, your own separate stall and a shower head, all of which you would expect going into the shower.  The water is ice cold unless you go when the generator is on, but you also have to be in the hot shower and be tall enough to turn the switch on, which being vertically challenged is a struggle for me.  The generator is "generally" on from 7-11 pm which by the way it is completely dark out and anytime at dinner or after you have to be wearing close toed shoes and pants to be safe from the poisonous snakes so flipflops can only be worn in the shower.  Putting on sneakers while wet, not so fun.  But all of these things don't really bug me that much, but the bugs do!! (no pun intended).  They literally dive bomb your head the whole shower, everything from grasshoppers to beetles to baby rhinos (beetles that have a huge horn and are about half the size of a fist).  Oh and by the way if you want a warm one it is dark so you can't even see them coming.  Showering with a headlamp is quite dangerous because although it allows you to see whether you are putting sparkly body lotion or shampoo in your hair it also attracts 5 times the amount of bugs.  So you will end up with beetle shampoo which frankly I'm not sure is healthy for your hair.  So over the weeks I've decided that the warm water is just not worth the craziness of showering at night and that ice cold water has more benefits than you would think.