Mathru School for the Differently Abled
Monday 1/27/14
All is grouted, now all is left is to get the murals put together. We'll get the mirrors ready to hang after Linda arrives with the hanging hardware Andy is sending me.
I spent three hours grouting the Muktha's Children mosaic, and Akshatha and I grouted six more mosaics by the students. Divya said the plywood bases will be here tomorrow. We'll get the edges shaded smooth, paint the boards black, and mount the mosaics on them.
I'm counting down the hours as well as the days to Thursday afternoon, when I check in to the Goldfinch Hotel. If there is a bathtub in my room I may want to kiss the concierge. I yearn for a decent shower, and even more I yearn for a nice long soak in the tub. I yearn for a good night's sleep in a comfortable bed with sheets and pillow cases. This afternoon, when I was finished grouting and headed back to my room, achey and sweaty, I yearned for a cold beer, For any cold drink, Iced tea would be lovely, and cold water from the fridge would be just fine. Then I wanted a nice glass of chilled chardonnay. I am not sure they'll have wine at the Goldfinch but maybe they'll know how to make a good Manhattan on the rocks there. I'm looking forward to finding out.
It occurs to me that I've never described the bathroom here. It's about 8 feet long and 4 feet wide. The floor is painted concrete, and the walls are covered with ceramic tile from floor to ceiling, At the far end of the room is the toilet, with the "poor man's bidet" spray nozzle mounted next to it on the far wall. At the near end closest to the door is a pedestal sink. On the wall above the sink is a switch, not for the light (that switch is about ten feet away in the bedroom), but for the hot water heater. On the wall between the sink and the toilet are two waist-high faucets. One is for hot water and the other is for cold water. On the opposite wall, facing both the sink and the toilet, is a shoulders-high towel rack. The bathroom is equipped with a five-gallon bucket and two small half-gallon buckets.
When you want to get clean, you switch on the hot water heater and wait for about twenty minutes. Then you fill the big five-gallon bucket with warm water, and use a small towel to soap yourself down. The small half-gallon buckets are handy for scooping up water from the big bucket and pouring it over yourself to rinse off.
After you're clean, you use one of your precious towels to dty the floor, because it's not pleasant stepping on slippery wet painted concrete when you need to pee in the middle of the night.
And there you have it, the two-bucket shower. I'm off to have one.
Monday 1/27/14
All is grouted, now all is left is to get the murals put together. We'll get the mirrors ready to hang after Linda arrives with the hanging hardware Andy is sending me.
I spent three hours grouting the Muktha's Children mosaic, and Akshatha and I grouted six more mosaics by the students. Divya said the plywood bases will be here tomorrow. We'll get the edges shaded smooth, paint the boards black, and mount the mosaics on them.
I'm counting down the hours as well as the days to Thursday afternoon, when I check in to the Goldfinch Hotel. If there is a bathtub in my room I may want to kiss the concierge. I yearn for a decent shower, and even more I yearn for a nice long soak in the tub. I yearn for a good night's sleep in a comfortable bed with sheets and pillow cases. This afternoon, when I was finished grouting and headed back to my room, achey and sweaty, I yearned for a cold beer, For any cold drink, Iced tea would be lovely, and cold water from the fridge would be just fine. Then I wanted a nice glass of chilled chardonnay. I am not sure they'll have wine at the Goldfinch but maybe they'll know how to make a good Manhattan on the rocks there. I'm looking forward to finding out.
It occurs to me that I've never described the bathroom here. It's about 8 feet long and 4 feet wide. The floor is painted concrete, and the walls are covered with ceramic tile from floor to ceiling, At the far end of the room is the toilet, with the "poor man's bidet" spray nozzle mounted next to it on the far wall. At the near end closest to the door is a pedestal sink. On the wall above the sink is a switch, not for the light (that switch is about ten feet away in the bedroom), but for the hot water heater. On the wall between the sink and the toilet are two waist-high faucets. One is for hot water and the other is for cold water. On the opposite wall, facing both the sink and the toilet, is a shoulders-high towel rack. The bathroom is equipped with a five-gallon bucket and two small half-gallon buckets.
When you want to get clean, you switch on the hot water heater and wait for about twenty minutes. Then you fill the big five-gallon bucket with warm water, and use a small towel to soap yourself down. The small half-gallon buckets are handy for scooping up water from the big bucket and pouring it over yourself to rinse off.
After you're clean, you use one of your precious towels to dty the floor, because it's not pleasant stepping on slippery wet painted concrete when you need to pee in the middle of the night.
And there you have it, the two-bucket shower. I'm off to have one.
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