Today, every tap we have turned on, here at Iris Pemba, has had water coming out of it!!! How amazing is that! What a miracle! How blessed are we! Hmm. You might not be as impressed as us at this news. However, given that we went for about 5 days when there was almost no running water, the last 2 days of non-stop working taps has been quite wonderful.
During this lack of plumbing technology, running water was provided by pouring it over yourself out of a bucket or bottle or jug. Or whatever. Toilet facilities became very basic. Pemba is very used to lack of water, so there are some luxury latrines for these eventualities, which are home to multiple hoardes of some of the largest cockroaches to walk the earth. Catherine was most distressed to discover that these creatures not only scuttle but can also fly. Book reading in the bog became obselete as a pass time.
Insects are generally bigger over here. Some of the ants are particularly huge. We quite like the lizards and geckos that hang about in the bathrooms.
Last Thursday, we visited the local jail to chat and pray with some of the inmates. We are hopefully going to the main jail tomorrow morning. This will probably be more secure than the local jail which had three rather sleepy looking guards and very little security. Most of the prisoners seemed fairly content not to escape.
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