The Bathroom Challenge

Back at the time of orientation, there was talk of how the kitchen usually ends up being a place of common ground among communities. However, in the Hays community this year this is not quite so. This year, the room that seems to be getting the most attention is the bathroom!

It all started when we arrived in August and we found the essential elements of our bathroom on the front lawn. Granted it worked out nicely for our photo shoot that there were three toilets (one for each girl) and two bathtubs (one for each boy) but now a month or so into the volunteer year, we are all getting a little tired of the potty dances while we wait for our new bathrooms to be done.

To keep our minds off of the wait, we have placed bets on when the bathroom will be done. We are now onto our second set of bets after our first set of dates all past in August. This time around, our bets are going into October. Still some of us are keeping optimistic, with the soonest date for completion being this Friday.

With all seriousness though, we haven't felt the inconvenience of having one bathroom that much. Truly, we are fortunate to have an extra bathroom. The only issue - it's in our basement. And let's just say, that like most basements, it's creepy!

It's especially creepy when you have go in the middle of the night. Oddly enough, we all realized very recently that we all have the tendency of going during the night. Still probability has not played its part yet with any of us running into each other, scaring the living daylights out of one another. Hope is though soon enough the bet will be over and we can stop holding our bladders, and our breathe that we meet a creeper in our basement!