Dirty Light, Dirty Dark, Dirty Dirty

As our PC service comes to a close, I've noticed the types of laundry piles we have created. Our "dirty lights" get washed first with a good scrubbing. Then our "dirty darks" get dunked in soapy water then rinsed - since they are dark you can't see the dirt on them. The dirt shows itself in the water after rinsing. Then the really dirty stuff, "dirty, dirty," clothes are washed in dirty, soapy water and rinsed in semi-dirty water. Most of the clothes we brought with us will remain in Africa as they have holes in them or the elastic is no longer stretchable. Someone will find a good use for them.

Our electric stove broke so we have been cooking like an environmental volunteer using our charcoal stove for all our meals and boiling water. It's not as convenient, but it sure gets hot! Russ has mastered lighting the charcoal stove with only one match but I got him beat by lighting it matchless! Ok, so I have used an already burning piece of charcoal to get the fire started - but I didn't use matched to light that fire so it still counts as matchless, right? The charcoal stove is actually working out pretty well as power outages are becoming more frequent.

We have less than one month left at our site - then we're off on our adventures.