Never a dull moment!

Ah, life in the north, where nothing is so certain as the fact that everything is never certain!

I was busy preparing for my trip tomorrow. Like a good little traveller, I bathed myself and then tossed a load of laundry into the wash in order to have nice, clean, people-friendly unsmelly clothing and body. Poor Kelly, who has been sick all day, used the bathroom after me and came out to announce that the toilet would not flush. We've had three instances of the water being out due to high sewage levels, so out into our back room I go, look into our tank, and OOPS! no water! Egad! A sick roomie, all my clothes in the wash, and not a drop to wash or flush with!

A call went out to our principal, who raced over to assist. He and I grabbed our two 18L jugs and our 10L jug. We filled the 10L with drinking water at his house and took the other two to the river, where we climbed into the stream and held them under to fill up. Where was the camera when we needed one? It would have been a shot worthy of the yearbook! We did not fall in, and we managed to get the water home for emergency flushes. But it was rather comical. We were apparently a spectacle, for a few children came over to see what the heck the silly teachers were doing, and why they were doing it.

Life is anything but dull up here!