Culture Shock

It was definitely complete culture shock coming to live in the dorms. When we were in Dar, I’d often get asked how the culture shock was. Since we were staying at such a nice resort, I wasn’t really sure what to think of culture shock. I’d never experienced it before, but I didn’t think I was going through it then. Once we got to the dorms, I definitely knew what culture shock was. I no longer had a shower, or even hot water for that matter. We were given buckets and cups to take a shower with and we had to buy a water boiler to boil our shower water with. I had already known beforehand that we would have to wash our laundry by hand, but knowing that you are going to do it and actually doing it are two different things. The first time we went to do laundry, everybody just stared at us. They asked us how we were going to do laundry with one bucket, and then gave us each another bucket. Apparently you need two buckets because you wash your clothes in one and then rinse them in the other before hanging them on the line. We only did our laundry like that once and then we found that doing it in the shower with the faucet running for rinsing is much easier.