As Americans we often take for granted the fact that showers, baths, and hot water are constants, not luxuries. Well, that expectation definitely went out the window when we all arrived in Peru. The first weeks were filled with adventures in bathing, with many stories including buckets, cold (I mean freezing) water, and a wide variety of qualms concerning where and when it was appropriate to wash. After the two months of a quick game of freeze tag with one’s shower, I am truly starting to understand the joy of cold water trickling down, shortening my breath, and waking my spirit. The blood pumping vigorously attempts to heat one’s body; and I now question whether or not a hot shower is the way to go. In fact, many Peruvians love it so much that cold water is preferred, while hot water is considered bad for you.
Daily Dinámica: Create a fantasy story about dealing with strange misunderstanding concerning water, for example.
Once upon a time there was a young girl living a quaint village in a country called Peru. She had a lovely family that took good care of her, and even though her customs were strange, they treated her as one of their own. One day, the young lady came to here training center and told her comrads about a glorious shower she had with warm water spewing from the fosset like a rainbow of skittles in a commercial she once had seen. Oh how joyous she was, but the next day…her expression was much more of confusion and dismay. Her family had brought her to this same fasset where the magical warm water came from and started to explain “Oh lovely girl, no worries! It is fixed! The water is no longer warm! You may take all the cold showers you wish!”
The End
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