Out of Water...for real this time.

So I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago about how the house was completely out of water...and that was true. But for about a few hours. Nothing too major.

Last weeked our volunteer house - House 6 - was SERIOUSLY out of water. We'd been having a lot of problems with our toilets being broken. One was broken and just refused to flush. The other, however, was slowly leaking water from somewhere unknown. We called in the maintenance men from NPH and they were on the job.

They fixed toilet #1 with few problems, but the second toilet was a bigger issue. They needed to replace parts inside of the toilet. Which of course they didn't have when they came to our house in the first place. So! They came on Friday, tried to fix it and came back Saturday with the correct part. BUT! They only work on Saturdays until noon. So at 11:55 the maintenance man came into the kitchen to tell me he was leaving and nothing was fixed. Gotta love Guatemala. Immediately after he left, not only was our toilet still leaking, but our shower started spewing water incontrollably. A few of the volunteers tried to shut it off, but to no avail. Instead, they went out to the back of our house and shut off the water to our entire house manually so that we wouldn't be flooded out.

Unfortunately for the ladies of House 6, this meant that we literally had NO water in our house from mid-day Saturday until mid-day Monday when they actually came to repair all the water in our house. For 2 days, 8 girls went upstairs to: shower, go to the bathroom, brush our teeth, wash our hands, cook (because - OF COURSE! - we also ran out of gas on our stove!) We lived like we had an outhouse (aka the bathrooms, sinks, and showers in House 4...) BOY did it make me appreciate everything that we have in our houses! It was quite the experience...

Our makeshift water stand...