Friday, January 13, 2006

Hot weather, cold showers

First a little context...
So I'm currently staying in Chonburi, on the 7th (top) floor of an apartment building which is right behind the church. Thats where the single guys stay. Most of the rest of the stay in the church, which itself is a 4 storey building (with a deck on the roof). Oh, not the missionaries themselves, they have their own houses, each only a few minutes from the church. Most of the people I'm working with are part of the TREK team (6 people + 2 kids). FYI: TREK is a 10 month short term missions program, and 7 of those months are spent working with missionaries in the field.

The first night here I tried having a cold shower. Apparently the water doesn't get nearly as hot as the air--IT WAS FREEZING! Most places have inline water heaters in the bathroom. The shower hose gets hooked directly up to it and it instantly heats the water. When Reg was staying in this apartment, the shower heater broke and it has never been fixed. Fortunatelly there is a bathroom at the church with a working water heater. I had a shower there last night. This was the first time I have been to Thailand where a hot shower was always available, it was so nice. Now I can live here.

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