I'm going to make a few pop culture references in this post. Hopefully, Chris and Steve get them. Not like my painful horror story (The Ring) reference that Jurie doesn't let me live down.
Water is scarce in Ibra, well not scarce more like not as readily available as turning on the tap. We are in the desert or post-apocalyptic wasteland. When we drive on the only road we have in town I kind of feel like we are in a scene from Mad Max (The Mel Gibson version). Like Mad Max water is scarce here. We have trucks that bring it to our house. In our case, a truck comes every Saturday to fill the drum that is on our roof.
You have to be very stingy with how you use your water. Which means no showers. Ha ha ha, I'm just joking. When we wait for our shower to warm up we fill up a bucket and use that water for other stuff. It means we don't have a washing machine because they use too much water. Rather we take our clothes every second week to the Laundromat. The bucket of water I spoke about previously is used to hand wash our own socks and underwear, taking socks and underwear to the Laundromat would be too expensive and would have to be washed weekly. I know there are some shocked faces reading this.
Luckily we have an awesome landlord, we just organised with him to have the water truck fill our tank every Saturday(The water guy is his uncle). Usually, every time you see your water is getting low you call the truck driver and he comes to fill the tank. The truck drivers have specific areas, if you call the another guy and he fills your tank you could have a straight up water truck war on your hands...see what I mean about Mad Max.
The other thing about the water is the pressure is really low because it comes out of a tank on your roof. As you can imagine it takes so long to wash my luscious mane (Cue Tina Turner singing). I have to plan my washes to coincide with days we get off from work early (3 pm).
It's 4:35 pm now and I just realised I have to wash my hair...(Cue Tina Turner singing again)
PS. For those of you who don't get the Tina Turner reference, I'll be kind to you and explain (although it's taking time out of my hair washing schedule) Tina Turner was in Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome. Coincidently she has awesome hair, just like me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4aOaDXIfY (WATCH THIS)
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