Thinking About Water ...
It has almost been 3 weeks in Foumban and we never stopped thinking about water. I remember our first week here, ahh, was such a struggle. Coming from a priviledged living envrionment where clean water access is granted, both of us absolutely lost it the first three nights at our house in Foumban because no water came out of the faucet and we thought it never would. But as time went by, we kind of got used to the no-water situation. I started filtering water with the water purification kit I brought from Japan. step1: Put half a spoon of the Poly-Glu powder into one 1.5L bottle of dirty water . step 2: Stir and shake the bottle for ~10min and let it sit for ~5min. step 3: Filter off the precipitation with a piece of clothes. Before&After: I repeated this whole prcess a few times during the first two weeks, but guess what: WATER CAME!! Surprise, surprise. One afternoon, when one of us opened the faucet, we first heard some sucking noise and then water...