Bertin, the Peruvian administrator of the children's home, just called to make sure that we heard the news about the 2-5 day corte de agua (water cut) that starts tomorrow morning.
Tony's response: Oh, we hadn't heard. Thanks for calling.
Julie's response: A what? The city is seriously cutting off water for 2-5 days? How do we wash dishes? How do we shower? What about flushing toilets? What in the world?!
Apparently this is something they do occasionally down here, so Tony is used to us from when he lived here as a teenager. It hasn't happened yet while we've been here so I'm not really sure what to think of it. Maybe this is a good excuse for Tony to take me out for dinner these next couple of nights. Tony's filling all our mixing bowls with water to use for flushing the toilets, something I wouldn't have thought of!
But I'm off to take a shower right now, and Tony's headed to buy a few big bottles of water. The workers at the children's home and strategizing and filling all their buckets as well. Could be an interesting few days!!
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