Bucket showers

I found out yesterday that I won't have water for the next ten days. I just took my last shower for ten days. Now there are other volunteers in other regions that haven't had water for like a month or more (which right now is basically the entire time we've been at our sites) so I don't have all that much to complain about.

But man, the things going through your head, when you will be without water for any extended period of time is pretty interesting for Americans. We have come to expect water when we turn the faucet on, no matter what. It's not something we ever have to think about.

Like right now I have my computer propped up on my lap as I type this, it's a little warm, and I'm thinking to myself, man any sweat I have . . . it's not getting washed off for a long time, I should take this stupid thing off my lap!

I need to buy some soap. I use this bar of Armenian soap which, I don't really know how well it works, though I do feel clean after each shower, but it doesn't have any scent. There is no scent to the soap. I never really thought about that, I'm not exactly a scent connoisseur, by any means, but when you have scentless soap, you can tell immediately that something isn't quite right. They should have any kind of American brand I'd want in Yerevan it's just a matter of going there and also remembering that I need to get soap.