Day 8

I forgot to mention in my other posts that there are not any showering facilities in the school I am living at, which means that the students go home on the weekend to shower and the teachers  much go to a public shower--!!! Having a shower always accessible to me at home, I was quite freaked out about this. Also, because the teachers here are so busy with teaching so many hours a day and still having to correct papers, they do not make it to the shower place more than once a week. I also freaked out when I found this out. After asking many people, I finally found a place that allowed me to shower alone, for the price of almost quadruple the normal price that people pay here, which still is only 20 yuan (a little more than $3 US). So today was my second shower here. During the week when I am unable to go to the showering facility, I have to sponge bathe myself...which sucks, but I keep telling myself that many people all over the world must do this so it's not really that big of a deal. I kind of treat many things that I am not used to like that. I pretend I am on Survivorman and somehow it makes it all easier. Thank g-d for Les!